Le château de Hartheim et le « Traitement spécial 14f13 »
Schwanninger, Florian
Le château de Hartheim et le « Traitement spécial 14f13 » - 2013.
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In Hartheim Castle, a former home for disabled people situated near Linz in Upper Austria, about 18,000 people were killed between May 1940 and August 1941. They were psychiatric patients or disabled people from nowadays Austria, parts of Bavaria, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. Shortly before this so called “Aktion T4” was stopped in the end of August 1941, in Hartheim Castle the killing of prisoners from the concentration camps Mauthausen and Gusen began (“Sonderbehandlung 14f13”). In 1942 prisoners of the KZ Dachau were also transported to Hartheim Castle to kill them by carbon monoxide. After one year break the killings started again in Hartheim. From March 1944 until October 1944 prisoners from the Mauthausen/Gusen complex, from Ravensbrück as well as slave worker from Eastern Europe were killed in Hartheim. After the liberation witnesses estimated the number of victims up to 10,000 persons. At the moment about 6,400 victims of the “Sonderbehandlung 14f13” in Hartheim are known by name.
Le château de Hartheim et le « Traitement spécial 14f13 » - 2013.
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In Hartheim Castle, a former home for disabled people situated near Linz in Upper Austria, about 18,000 people were killed between May 1940 and August 1941. They were psychiatric patients or disabled people from nowadays Austria, parts of Bavaria, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. Shortly before this so called “Aktion T4” was stopped in the end of August 1941, in Hartheim Castle the killing of prisoners from the concentration camps Mauthausen and Gusen began (“Sonderbehandlung 14f13”). In 1942 prisoners of the KZ Dachau were also transported to Hartheim Castle to kill them by carbon monoxide. After one year break the killings started again in Hartheim. From March 1944 until October 1944 prisoners from the Mauthausen/Gusen complex, from Ravensbrück as well as slave worker from Eastern Europe were killed in Hartheim. After the liberation witnesses estimated the number of victims up to 10,000 persons. At the moment about 6,400 victims of the “Sonderbehandlung 14f13” in Hartheim are known by name.
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