Hadamar Clinic
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The Hadamar Clinic was a psychiatric hospital in the German town Hadamar, used by the Nazis as the site of their T-4 Euthanasia Program, which performed mass sterilizations and mass murder of "undesirable" members of Nazi society, specifically the physically and mentally handicapped. There was thick smoke visible above Hadamar in the summer of 1941 when the staff celebrated the cremation of their 10,000th patient with beer and wine served in the crematorium. Despite precautions to cover up the T-4 program the operation was known to the local population. Reason was that the people to be killed in the Hadamar hospital (totaling 14.500) arrived by train or bus and obviously vanished behind the sites fence. Furthermore, since the crematorium ovens were usually fed with two corpses instead of one, the cremation process was faulty. This often resulted in a cloud of stinking smoke hanging over the town. In the local schools, students would often taunt each other by saying "You'll end up in the Hadamar ovens!"
The Hadamar psychiatric hospital ist still in operation today and houses both a memorial and an exhibition about the mass murder of the T-4 Euthanasia Program.
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- Hadamar Memorial and Exhibition
- Universal Studios Newsreel on Death Camps, 26 April 45 (via archive.org)
- ushmm.org
- Nazi Euthanasia of the Mentally Ill at Hadamar
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