Stolperstein
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A Stolperstein is a ten-centimetre concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. The Stolpersteine project, initiated by t
Stolpersteine for the Feder family in Kolín, Czech Republic
Stolperstein installation in Amsterdam Beethovenstraat 55 on 3 October 2018
Gunter Demnig in 2007
"Trace writing device", 1990: Rolling pavement-printing machine producing "Eine Spur durchs Vergessen" – "A trace against forgetting"
Aktion T4
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Aktion T4 was an involuntary euthanasia program which targeted people with disabilities and the mentally ill in Nazi Germany. The terms "T4" or "Aktion T4" were first used in post-war trials against d
Stolperstein
…last place that they chose freely to reside, work or study (with exceptions possible on a case-by-case basis) before they fell victim to Nazi terror, forced euthanasia, eugenics, or deportation to a concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide. As of June 2023, 100,000 Stolpersteine…
Hitler's 1939 order authorising Philipp Bouhler and Karl Brandt to allow doctors to grant "mercy death" to "incurable" patients
NSDAP Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler, head of the T4 programme
Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal doctor and organiser of Aktion T4
Schönbrunn Psychiatric Hospital, 1934. Photo by SS photographer Friedrich Franz Bauer