Otto Ernst Falkenhagen papers

Otto Erich Falkenhagen was born in 1922 to Otto and Ella Falkenhagen in Hamburg, Germany. Otto’s younger sister, Inge, was born in 1928. Inge had both physical and intellectual disabilities that prompted scrutiny and persecution of the Falkenhagen family under Nazi eugenics policies. In 1937 Otto Sr. died at the Hafenkrankenhaus in Hamburg, four years later Inge died at age 12 in the Alstersdorf Anstalten. In 1940 Otto Erich Falkenhagen was sentenced to serve 6 months for a transgression by a youth court in Hamburg. After serving this sentence Otto was sent by state authorities to the Moringen youth camp where he was interned for the next five years until his liberation in April 1945.