Gallery - Bernburg Euthanasia Facility

Photos: Bernburg "Euthanasia" Facility
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Model of the Anhalt State Psychiatric Hospital in Bernburg. The blue arrows show the route followed by transports of victims to the murder site. The gas chamber and crematorium are located in the circled building.

Transports entered the hospital compound through this gate.

Route of transport through the hospital grounds.

Building which housed the "euthanasia" facility.

Memorial to the victims of the "euthanasia" program. According to records kept by the Nazi regime, 9,385 mentally and physically handicapped persons were murdered here between November 21, 1940, and August 24, 1941. Some 5,000 concentration camp prisoners were also sent to the Bernburg euthanasia facility.

Memorial stone. "Das Schweigen ist gebrochen. Wir gedenken der mehr als 14000 Männer, Frauen und Kinder, die zwischen 1940 und 1943 in der "Euthanasie"-Anstalt Bernburg ermordet werden."

Main floor of the Bernburg facility. Here victims were undressed, photographed, and brought before a physician who determined a fictitious cause of death. The victims' gold teeth were also disinfected in preparation for removal after death. The red arrows indicate the movement of victims through the processing.
Source: Adapted from a photograph of the floorplan on display at the Bernburg memorial.

Basement of the Bernburg facility. Victims were accompanied by nurses to the gas chamber in the basement. Sixty to seventy-five persons were killed at a time. The red arrows indicate the movement of victims and their remains through the processing.
Source: Adapted from a photograph of the floorplan on display at the Bernburg memorial.

View into the gas chamber disguised as a shower room.

View of window with protective grate from inside the gas chamber.

Detail of shower head.

View from inside the chamber of entrance door and observation window.

The observation window.

Carbon monoxide tanks.

Dissection room.

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	Model of the Anhalt State Psychiatric Hospital in Bernburg. The blue arrows show the route followed by transports of victims to the murder site. The gas chamber and crematorium are located in the circled building.
	Transports entered the hospital compound through this gate.
	Route of transport through the hospital grounds.
	Building which housed the "euthanasia" facility.
	Memorial to the victims of the "euthanasia" program. According to records kept by the Nazi regime, 9,385 mentally and physically handicapped persons were murdered here between November 21, 1940, and August 24, 1941. Some 5,000 concentration camp prisoners were also sent to the Bernburg euthanasia facility.
	Memorial stone. "Das Schweigen ist gebrochen. Wir gedenken der mehr als 14000 Männer, Frauen und Kinder, die zwischen 1940 und 1943 in der "Euthanasie"-Anstalt Bernburg ermordet werden."
	Main floor of the Bernburg facility. Here victims were undressed, photographed, and brought before a physician who determined a fictitious cause of death. The victims' gold teeth were also disinfected in preparation for removal after death. The red arrows indicate the movement of victims through the processing. Source: Adapted from a photograph of the floorplan on display at the Bernburg memorial.
	Basement of the Bernburg facility. Victims were accompanied by nurses to the gas chamber in the basement. Sixty to seventy-five persons were killed at a time. The red arrows indicate the movement of victims and their remains through the processing. Source: Adapted from a photograph of the floorplan on display at the Bernburg memorial.
	View into the gas chamber disguised as a shower room.
	View of window with protective grate from inside the gas chamber.
	Detail of shower head.
	View from inside the chamber of entrance door and observation window.
	The observation window.
	Carbon monoxide tanks.
	Dissection room.