Zapoznane ofiary nazistów. Pamięć o zagładzie chorych psychicznie: Tiegenhof (Dziekanka) i Hadamar

Abstrakt

The Nazi-euthanasia crimes are still — at least in Polish reflections — a ratherunexplored topic. Thus, the remembrance of their victims, of people — whose liveswere announced as “unworthy of life” — murdered for both race and economic reasons,remains a gap in Polish culture. It has to be placed in opposition do German researches,which try — for obvious reasons — to describe and criticize all the single facts of Nazicrimes. This difference should be filled with some comments, for Nazi-euthanasia wasnot a meaningless episode, and it took hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, takingplace also in mental hospitals located in the occupied areas of Poland.
The article aims to describe the Nazi-euthanasia crimes, to set them in the contextof the Holocaust and — before all — to compare the ways of memorialisation of annihilated patients, using the samples of hospitals in Hadamar (Hessia) and Gniezno (Greater Poland).