Medical research and National Socialist euthanasia: Carl Schneider and the Heidelberg research children from 1942 until 1945
TitleMedical research and National Socialist euthanasia: Carl Schneider and the Heidelberg research children from 1942 until 1945
Author
Call number179.7/0016
Object number04774j
Place of publicationHouston, Texas, United States
PublisherSpringer
Year of publication
2014
Physical descriptionpp127-138
MaterialArticle
ISBN9783319057019
NotesArticle from the book 'Human subjects research after the Holocaust.' pp127-138
Description
The systematic murder of unwanted 'inferior' groups of people began under National Socialism in 1939 with the centrally organized part of the policy to murder psychiatric patients (the T4 program). Shortly after the attack on Poland in September 1939, the perpetrators registered, evaluated and gassed residents of the mental hospitals and nursing homes of the German Reich including Austria. Over 70,000 patients were murdered in gas chambers in 1940 and 1941