Captured, persecuted, destroyed: sick and handicapped people under National Socialism

Captured, persecuted, destroyed: Sick and disabled people under National Socialism is the name of a traveling exhibition . It was opened in 2014 in the German Bundestag under the patronage of Federal President Joachim Gauck . It was initiated in 2010 by Frank Schneider , former President of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN). The project is led by Frank Schneider (DGPPN) in collaboration with Uwe Neumärker , Ulrich Baumann ( Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe ), Andreas Nachama and Britta Scherer ( Foundation Topography of Terror ). The exhibition curator is Petra Lutz .

Content

At least 250,000 mentally ill and disabled people were murdered in the so-called euthanasia program. In addition to “ Aktion T4 ”, up to 10,000 children were murdered in over 30 “ children's departments ”. Psychiatrists were instrumental in the compulsory sterilization of up to 400,000 people, mainly mentally ill and handicapped people. Jewish and politically unpopular psychiatrists were persecuted and expelled from Germany. Many psychiatrists involved in National Socialism continued their careers seamlessly after 1945. Among other things, exemplary biographies of perpetrators and victims are presented in the exhibition.

Exhibition locations

From 2014 until the end of the travels, she could be seen nationally and internationally at 73 locations in 8 different countries on 5 continents. This tour of the exhibition ends in January 2020 in Heidelberg .

amongst other things:

in the German Bundestag, January 28 to February 28, 2014
in the Topography of Terror , Berlin, March 26th to July 20th, 2014
at the Landschaftsverband Rheinland , Cologne, April 17, 2015 to June 22, 2015
in the New City Museum Aachen, August 29, 2015 to October 25, 2015
in the main branch of Sparkasse Bochum , Bochum, until October 21, 2016
in the atrium of the New University , Sanderring 2, Würzburg, June 19 to August 18, 2017
2019 in the Documentation and Culture Center of German Sinti and Roma

literature

Frank Schneider, Petra Lutz (ed.): Recorded, pursued, destroyed. registered, persecuted, annihilated. Springer Medicine, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-642-54027-1 . (Exhibition catalog in German and English)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ DGPPN: Children's departments.
^ DGPPN: Psychiatry in National Socialism: Commemoration and Responsibility.
↑ ^a ^b "recorded, persecuted, destroyed": Exhibition on the murder of sick and disabled people under National Socialism now also in Bochum. In: Lokalkompass, September 21, 2016.
↑ bundestag.de
^ Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe: Captured, persecuted, destroyed. Sick and handicapped people under National Socialism.
↑ stadt-koeln.de
↑ center-charlemagne.eu
↑ Exhibition flyer Würzburg 2017

[1] DGPPN: Children's departments.

[2] DGPPN: Psychiatry in National Socialism: Commemoration and Responsibility.

[bochum-3] "recorded, persecuted, destroyed": Exhibition on the murder of sick and disabled people under National Socialism now also in Bochum. In: Lokalkompass, September 21, 2016.

[4] undestag.de

[5] Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe: Captured, persecuted, destroyed. Sick and handicapped people under National Socialism.

[6] stadt-koeln.de

[7] ter-charlemagne.eu

[8] Exhibition flyer Würzburg 2017