Posts Tagged ‘child murder’
“Am Spiegelgrund” in Vienna“Special Children’s Ward” 1940–1945
The Steinhof hospital in Vienna was a complex of 34 pavilions. From 1940 to 1945, thirteen of the hospital’s pavilions had been emptied by the T4 “euthanasia” murders. These were used for a reformatory and a children’s psychiatric clinic, “Am Spiegelgrund” The children included those selected by T4 categories, as well as the children of resistance…
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“Children’s Euthanasia & the German Society of Pediatrics – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinderheilkund (DGK) The Nazi “children’s euthanasia” program was a unique phenomenon in the history of humankind; psychiatrists and pediatricians targeted and systematically murdered disabled children as the means for realizing a social Darwinist utopia. Before a child was killed, the approval of three…
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