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The national socialist
»euthanasia« killings
Themes
The path to the »euthanasia« killings
Eugenics / »Racial hygiene«
The debate about the »annihilation of life unworthy of life«
»Racial hygiene« in National Socialism
Forced sterilization
»Selection« in the institution
Everyday life in the institutions
Therapy
Exclusion of children
Exclusion of adults
»Aktion T4«
Planning and organisation
The organisation's headquarters
The registration form procedure
The T4 Murders
Bureaucratic procedures
Protests
Church representatives
Activists
Jurists
Further murder campaigns
»Child euthanasia«
Decentralised »euthanasia«
Extermination by starvation: Eglfing-Haar
Death through medication: Hadamar
Death through medication: Meseritz
The murders of patients in the Occupied Territories
Murders in Poland
Murders in Soviet Union
»Euthanasia« and the Holocaust
»Concentration camp inmate euthanasia«
The victims and their families
Groups of victims
Family members
Perpetrators and profiteers
Biographies of perpetrators
After 1945
Prosecution
Post-war psychiatry
Compensation for the victims
Remembrance
Germany
Austria
Poland
Russia - Belarus - Ukraine
France - The Netherlands - Belgium
Epilogue
Biographies of victims
Memorials at Sites of former T4 Killing Centres
For informations to the sites please click on the pictures.
Bernburg, Memorial room at the site of the former crematorium
© Sammlungsbestand Gedenkstätte Bernburg
Grafeneck, Memorial book with chapel in the background
© Grafeneck Memorial
Pirna, Memorial cross in 2011 near the building of the killing centre
© Jürgen Lösel, Archiv Gedenkstätte Pirna-Sonnenstein
Brandenburg, View of the exhibition
© Christof Beyer
Hadamar, Reconstructed bus garage, 2006
© photographer unknown, Hadamar Memorial