Memorial for the victims of the National Socialist euthanasia crimes
The memorial for the victims of the National Socialist euthanasia crimes at the forest cemetery in Munich was erected on May 25, 1990 by the Max Planck Society at the instigation of the Society's then President, Heinz A. Staab .
The memorial commemorates numerous victims of the murders of the sick during the Nazi era , whose brains were acquired by scientists from what was then the KWI for Brain Research in Berlin and the KWI for Psychiatry , forerunner of today's Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry (German Research Institute for Psychiatry) in Munich Have been misused for research purposes.
Preparations from the brains (fine sections) of such victims were not buried in the Munich forest cemetery until 1990. There is the memorial. It calls on scientists to consider ethical limits in their work in the future.
Text of the inscription :
- In memory of victims of National Socialism and their abuse by medicine
- All researchers as a warning to responsible self-limitation
In a slightly smaller font, the donors' association of the memorial is named below:
- Erected by the Max Planck Society
- 1990
See also other memorials
Further memorials in connection with the National Socialist euthanasia crimes can be found in
- Berlin : the memorial and information center for the victims of the National Socialist "euthanasia" murders was created in 1986 and redesigned in 2014
- Munich: In 1990 a memorial for the victims of the National Socialist euthanasia murders was unveiled in the Haar Clinic near Munich . The inscription there reads: In memory of the victims of euthanasia during the Nazi regime - a warning to all of us
- Salzburg: 1991
- Berlin-Buch: on the campus of the same name
- At the sites of most of the Nazi murders , the so-called killing centers of Aktion T4 , sites with didactically designed memorials were also created in the 1980s and 1990s.
Web links
- A new way of dealing with history. Burial of brain preparations in the Munich forest cemetery. (PM of the MPG from 1990)
- Matthias Hennies: Euthanasia and the culture of remembrance of German doctors - conference of the Institute for the History of Medicine. (at deutschlandfunk.de on Nov. 20, 2008)
- Christina Berndt: "What I saw exceeded my fears". In Süddt. Zeitg from March 14, 2017 (The archive in Berlin? There is international consensus that such specimens are to be buried - but that did not happen with some specimens, contrary to what was long thought. Apparently, some tissue samples were deliberately withheld from Nazi victims in 1990, to be able to research them further. The article title quotes the historian Florian Schmaltz.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Scientific organizations erect a memorial. Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) , October 14, 2000, accessed on January 4, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 4 " N , 11 ° 29 ′ 48" E