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