Hadamar Euthanasia Centre

The Hadamar Memorial marks one of the principal sites of the Nazi regime's systematic murder of people with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Between January 1941 and March 1945, approximately 14,500 people were killed at this facility in the small Hessian town of Hadamar — first by carbon monoxide in a purpose-built gas chamber under Aktion T4, then through lethal injections, medication overdoses, and deliberate starvation during the later phase of decentralized killings. The site sits within the grounds of what is now the Vitos psychiatric clinic; the protected memorial in the historic building documents the perpetrators, victim biographies, and postwar justice — including the 1945 Hadamar Trial, among the first Allied war crimes proceedings held on German soil. A visit demands engagement with the history of medical ethics, bureaucratic complicity, and institutional failure.