Guess I Missed It

Tonight there is another opening to add to the list, this one at the Holocaust Museum is more gruesome than most:

Hartheim "Mercy Death" Clinic

Before the Nazis made murder efficient in the gas chambers, there first were the unspeakable "mercy deaths" to purge Germany of its population with cognitive and developmental disabilities. From September 1939 until August 1941, German and Austrian medical institutions executed many of Germany's most vulnerable citizens. Code-named Operation T-4, the street address of the Berlin headquarters, Tiergartenstraße 4, the campaign resulted in the deaths of approximately 200,000 individuals who were exterminated at six "euthanasia" sites. This exhibition will provide historical documentation of the role played by scientists, physicians and government officials and will describe the killing centers of Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Hartheim, Sonnenstein, Bernburg, and Hadamar.

Original artifacts will be on loan from Hadamar, Hartheim, Sonnenstein, Deutsches Historisches Museum, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and other sites.

The public is invited to a free preview reception at 6:00 pm, September 6