Hadamar
Hadamar: Committed to Hadamar Hospital
Courtesy of PROFF, Prosjekt Felles Framtid, Sandefjord, Norway
"VERLAGT NACH HADAMAR" ("Committed to Hadamar") tells the true story of a reality that occured not more than some 50 years ago. For the first time, in Spring 1991, these photographs were showed to the public in the Hessen district in Germany. The exhibition shows how a public health service could be corrupted into the grotesquely inhumane!
It shows the destiny of the 200,000 mentally disabled people, psychiatric patients and people with genetic disabilities, who were killed by the Nazis in the years of the war.
The exhibition also tells us about the 400,000 who were sterilized by force.
Table of Contents
A Foreword
The Occurrence
- The "euthanasia" crime in Hadamar.
- The Assasination of Children in Eichberg and Kalmenhof.
- Forced Sterilization, Further Assassinations and Mass Dying.
Backgrounds
- Racism: Elimination of Human Beings of Minor Value.
- The Austerity Programmes: Usefulness Before Humanity.
- Total Registration.
- World War II: Militarization of Society.
Perpetrators, Persons Involved, Witnesses and Collaborators
Persons Concerned
- Children and Adolescents In Special Schools and Welfare Homes.
- Male and Female Jews, "Half-breeds".
- The Unsettled, ,,Asocials", Alcoholics and Prostitutes.
- Male and Female Prisoners Under Forced Labor.
- Soldiers, Victims of Bombing, Old People.
The Aftermath
- The Trials.
- Ignorance and Inhibition.
- Recognition of the Victims, Coping With the Past and Remembrance.
An Afterword
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Prosjekt Felles Framtid, Torget 1A, 3210 Sandefjord, Norway.
tel: +47 33 45 40 00 fax: + 45 33 45 40 01
email: proff@proff-norway.no, web: www.proff-norway.no