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1. View of Hartheim castle.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 58307
Date:
1900 - 1945
… targeted mentally and physically disabled patients, a population that the Nazis considered "life unworthy of living" (lebensunwertes Leben). The euthanasia…
2. Group portrait of T-4 Euthanasia program personnel at a social gathering. One of them plays the accordian.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 58310
Date:
August 1940 - May 1942
… targeted mentally and physically disabled patients, a population that the Nazis considered "life unworthy of living" (lebensunwertes Leben). The euthanasia…
3. View of the cemetery at the Hadamar Institute, where victims of the Nazi euthanasia program were buried in mass graves.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 73719
Date:
1945 April 15
… targeted mentally and physically disabled patients, a population that the Nazis considered "life unworthy of living" (lebensunwertes Leben). The euthanasia…
4. First page of a letter written by Frida Richard, a survivor of the Hadamar Institute, in which she describes her cruel treatment at the euthanasia facility.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 73722
Date:
1945 May 06
… targeted mentally and physically disabled patients, a population that the Nazis considered "life unworthy of living" (lebensunwertes Leben). The euthanasia…
5. Portrait of Frida Richard, a survivor of the Hadamar Institute. After the liberation she wrote a letter in which she described her cruel treatment at the euthanasia facility.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 73721
Date:
1945 April 05
… targeted mentally and physically disabled patients, a population that the Nazis considered "life unworthy of living" (lebensunwertes Leben). The euthanasia…
6. Second page of a letter written by Frida Richard, a survivor of the Hadamar Institute, in which she describes her cruel treatment at the euthanasia facility.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 73722A
Date:
1945 May 06
… targeted mentally and physically disabled patients, a population that the Nazis considered "life unworthy of living" (lebensunwertes Leben). The euthanasia…
7. A page of the Hadamar Institute's death register in which the causes of death were faked to conceal the euthanasia killings that took place there.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 76282
Date:
1945 April 05
… targeted mentally and physically disabled patients, a population that the Nazis considered "life unworthy of living" (lebensunwertes Leben). The euthanasia…
8. Copy of an original letter signed by Adolf Hitler authorizing the T4 (Euthanasia) program.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 67072
Date:
1939 September 01
… targeted mentally and physically disabled patients, a population that the Nazis considered "life unworthy of living" (lebensunwertes Leben). The euthanasia…
9. Close-up of Richard Jenne, the last child killed by the head nurse at the Kaufbeuren-Irsee euthanasia facility.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 78606
Date:
May 1945
… program reviewed each case and determined which patients were "useless eaters" who were "unworthy of life." These patients were then marked by sanitorium…
10. Irmgard Huber, the former chief nurse at the Hadamar Institute, confers with counsel during a session of the Hadamar euthanasia facility trial in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 11680
Date:
1945 October 09
… targeted mentally and physically disabled patients, a population that the Nazis considered "life unworthy of living" (lebensunwertes Leben). The euthanasia…
11. American war crimes investigators question chief nurse Irmgard Huber about the mass killings that occurred at the Hadamar Institute.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 73720
Date:
1945 May 04
… targeted mentally and physically disabled patients, a population that the Nazis considered "life unworthy of living" (lebensunwertes Leben). The euthanasia…
12. Dr. Adolf Wahlmann (left), chief physician at the Hadamar Institute, and Karl Willig (right), assistant male nurse, pose next to a barred window at the euthanasia facility where they are being held prisoner by American authorities.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 73717
Date:
1945 April 05
… targeted mentally and physically disabled patients, a population that the Nazis considered "life unworthy of living" (lebensunwertes Leben). The euthanasia…