Lüneburg Memorial

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The “Euthanasia” memorial in Lüneburg is a permanent exhibition that opened on November 25, 2004 in the historic water tower building in the center of the grounds of the Lüneburg Psychiatric Clinic . The tower is part of the Lüneburg asylum opened in 1901. At the end of September 1941, the establishment of a so-called “ children's department ” in the state sanatorium and nursing home in Lüneburg was ordered by a decree of the provincial administration of the province of Hanover , responsible for northern Germany.

The Nazi crimes

The “children's department” in Lüneburg was one of over 30 such institutions. Houses 23 and 25, which still exist today, were places where 300 to 400 children were killed during World War II. Willi Baumert , Max Bräuner and a nurse are verifiable as perpetrators . Like other institutions, Lüneburg was affected by several killings during World War II: “Kinderaktion”, Aktion T4 , deportation of Jewish and foreign patients.

Memorial work

The work of the memorial is aimed primarily at schoolchildren and young people, hospital staff, interested parties from the Lüneburg region, researchers and educational institutions of all kinds. Political and historical education is a contribution to educating patients in psychiatry about the crimes of National Socialism .

Web links

literature

  • Raimond Reiter: Psychiatry under National Socialism and the educational and memorial center "Victims of Nazi Psychiatry" in Lüneburg , Marburg 2005.
  • Raimond Reiter: Victims of Nazi Psychiatry - Commemoration in Lower Saxony and Bremen , Marburg 2007.

Coordinates: 53 ° 15 ′ 17.7 "  N , 10 ° 22 ′ 53.8"  E