Hadamar Euthanasia Centre

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The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre was a Nazi killing facility in Germany where thousands of people with disabilities and mental illnesses were murdered under the regime’s so-called “euthanasia” program during World War II.

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Aktion T4 program site 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi euthanasia centre
killing facility
commemorates victims of Nazi euthanasia program
convertedFrom psychiatric hospital
country Nazi Germany
endDate 1945-03
hasFacility crematorium
gas chamber
psychiatric hospital buildings
hasGermanName Tötungsanstalt Hadamar NERFINISHED
heritageDesignation site of remembrance
languageOfName German
legalAftermath Hadamar Trial NERFINISHED
locatedIn Germany
Hadamar NERFINISHED
Hesse
memorialStatus memorial site
museum
methodOfKilling carbon monoxide poisoning
gas chamber
lethal injection
overdose of medication
starvation
notablePerpetrator Adolf Wahlmann NERFINISHED
Heinrich Ruoff NERFINISHED
operatedBy Nazi regime NERFINISHED
operationalPhase Aktion T4 phase 1941 NERFINISHED
post-T4 decentralized killing phase 1942–1945
partOf Aktion T4 NERFINISHED
Nazi euthanasia program NERFINISHED
perpetratorGroup Nazi doctors NERFINISHED
administrative staff
nurses
relatedTo Holocaust history
Nazi crimes against disabled people
startDate 1941-01
subsequentTrials German courts in Frankfurt
trialYear 1945
triedBy U.S. military tribunal NERFINISHED
usedFor forced euthanasia
mass murder
systematic killing of people with disabilities
systematic killing of people with mental illnesses
victimCount approximately 15000
over 10000
victimGroup adult psychiatric patients
children with disabilities
forced laborers
foreign workers
people with intellectual disabilities
people with mental illnesses

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Hadamar historicalEventSite Hadamar Euthanasia Centre
Hadamar notableFor Hadamar Euthanasia Centre
this entity surface form: Aktion T4 program site