Author/Editor | Ziherl, Slavko; Čebašek-Travnik, Zdenka; Zupanič-Slavec, Zvonka | |
Title | The extermination of psychiatric patients in occupied Slovenia in 1941 | |
Type | članek | |
Source | Int J Ment Health | |
Vol. and No. | Letnik 36, št. 1 | |
Publication year | 2007 | |
Volume | str. 99-104 | |
Language | eng | |
Abstract | Hitler's eugenics program for the extermination of inferior and feeble persons involved Slovenia in the worst possible way. In May 1941, German psychiatrists examined all 380 patients of the psychiatric hospital in Novo Celje, which was one of two psychiatric hospitals in the then-Slovenia. They ordered the execution of the majority and, in June of the same year, transported them to the Hartheim "euthanasia institute" near Linz, transferring only around 30 younger employable patients to the psychiatric hospital in Feldhof in Austria. We examined all the available documentation, which was modest and includes no original lists of the illnesses of these patients. We describe the time, place, and occurrence of this terrible crime against psychiatric patients. | |
Descriptors | HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL DISORDERS EUTHANASIA WAR CRIMES SLOVENIA GERMANY |