Under the National Socialist regime, numerous inhabitants of the Catholic institute for disabled persons in Schönbrunn near Dachau were transferred to mental asylums. A great number of them were killed by National Socialist "euthanasia" measures. This study investigates the further fates of these persons and describes the political context, as well as the scopes of the local decision-makers, particularly those of the director of the institution and the physicians, as well as the reactions of the nuns and the relatives of the inhabitants, until the postwar era.
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Under the National Socialist regime, numerous inhabitants of the Catholic institute for disabled persons in Schönbrunn near Dachau were transferred to mental asylums. A great number of them were killed by National Socialist "euthanasia" measures. This study investigates the further fates of these persons and describes the political context, as well as the scopes of the local decision-makers, particularly those of the director of the institution and the physicians, as well as the reactions of the...
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