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Schönbrunn Psychiatric Hospital, 1934. Photo by SS photographer Franz Bauer. Social Darwinism came to play a major role in the ideology of Nazism, where it was combined with a similarly pseudo-scientific theory of racial hierarchy in order to identify the Germans as a part of what the Nazis regarded as an Aryan or Nordic master race. [1]
Grave-site of euthanasia children's victims from the Spiegelgrund clinic at Wien-Zentralfriedhof. The upper stone block reads (in German) "Never forgotten" and the lower stone block reads (in German) "In memory of the children and adolescents, who fell victim to NS euthanasia as "life unworthy of life" from 1940 to 1945 in the former children's hospital "Am Spiegelgrund".
13 October — Germany, in a note to Brussels, guarantees the inviolability and integrity of Belgium so long as the latter abstains from military action against Germany; 5 November — In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people (recorded in the Hossbach ...
The killing wards for the Zivil- und Ostarbeiter children, including their intentionally misdiagnosed mothers (usually as being "mentally ill"), were established at the Bavarian state hospital at Kaufbeuren and its branch at Irsee. They continued to function as euthanasia centres for 33 days after the end of the war until discovery by American ...
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1937 (19 P) Pages in category "1937 deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,936 total.
Children who died in the Holocaust (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Children killed in World War II by Nazi Germany" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Czesława Kwoka, 14-year-old Auschwitz concentration camp victim. Nazi Germany perpetrated various crimes against humanity and war crimes against children, including the killing of children of unwanted or "dangerous" people in accordance with Nazi ideological views, either as part of their idea of racial struggle or as a measure of preventive security.
[e] After 1937, the acute shortage of labour in Germany arising from rearmament, meant that anyone capable of work was deemed to be "useful", exempted from the law and the rate of sterilisation declined. [29] The term Aktion T4 is a post-war coining; contemporary German terms included Euthanasie and Gnadentod (merciful death). [30]