Přednáška: Nazi ‚Euthanasia‘ in the Czech Lands and Its Victims from the Ranks of Patients Transferred from Saxony, 1939–1945
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The Czech Lands (Bohemia, Moravia-Silesia) held a particular position in the Nazi ʿeuthanasiaʾ consisting above all in a heterogeneous ethnic structure of inhabitants, which determined its different dynamics. The Action ´T4´ of the years 1939–1941 was to be focused here solely on German patients in both the so-called Reich District Sudetenland (Reichsgau Sudetenland) and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren).
This rule, however, was not always being followed. One of the results of starting mass transports of patients within the Action ´T4´ from this territory, obviously having been calculated from the very beginning, was obtaining space for admitting Reich German patients, especially from Saxony. In 1941, a branch of the Saxon Land Institution (Säschische Landesanstalt) in Arnsdorf, named Außenstelle Wiesengrund, was established within the District Healing and Care Institution (Gau- Heil- und Pflegeanstalt) in Wiesengrund (Dobřany) in western Bohemia. 485 patients from Saxony, who had obviously been spared at selection for the Action ´T4´ in Saxony, were transferred there. Most of them died in Wiesengrund afterwards, some even in Protectorate mental institutions Kosmanos (Kosmonosy) and Prag-Bochnitz (Praha-Bohnice) and several survivors came back to Germany after (and even before) the end of World War II. Beyond this contingent, another 171 patients from Saxony could be identified in the psychiatric health care institutions in Bohemia as well. This contribution based on the list of names with personal data, including diagnoses, shows structure and fate of this less known subgroup of the victims of the Nazi policy in psychiatry.
Vystupující: Michal Šimůnek (ÚSD AV ČR)