Euthanasia trials, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 49 relations: Action 14f13, Aktion T4, Bruchsal, Chemical Corps, Court-martial, Crimes against humanity, Dachau concentration camp, Doctors' Trial, Dresden, Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, Final Solution, Frankfurt, Germany, Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre, Hadamar, Hadamar killing centre, Hermann Göring, Hitler's Chancellery, Irmgard Huber, Jewish skull collection, Karl Brandt, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Kurt Blome, Landsberg Prison, Life (magazine), Luftwaffe, Nazi Germany, Nazi human experimentation, Nuremberg, Nuremberg executions, Nuremberg trials, Office of Scientific Research and Development, Operation Paperclip, Operation Reinhard, Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Paul Nitsche, Pirna, Province of Hesse-Nassau, Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre, Soviet occupation zone in Germany, Telford Taylor, United States, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Viktor Brack, Waldemar Hoven, Walter Schreiber, Wilhelm Frick, Wolfram Sievers, Zwiefalten.

2. Holocaust trials
3. Nazi eugenics

Action 14f13

Action 14f13, also called Sonderbehandlung (special treatment) 14f13 and Aktion 14f13, was a campaign by Nazi Germany to murder Nazi concentration camp prisoners. Euthanasia trials and Action 14f13 are Nazi eugenics.

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Aktion T4

Aktion T4 (German) was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany. Euthanasia trials and Aktion T4 are Nazi eugenics.

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Bruchsal

Bruchsal (South Franconian: Brusl) is a city at the western edge of the Kraichgau, approximately 20 km northeast of Karlsruhe in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Chemical Corps

The Chemical Corps is the branch of the United States Army tasked with defending against and using chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons.

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Court-martial

A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.

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Crimes against humanity

Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians.

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Dachau concentration camp

Dachau was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest running one, opening on 22 March 1933.

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Doctors' Trial

The Doctors' Trial (officially United States of America v. Karl Brandt, et al.) was the first of 12 trials for war crimes of high-ranking German officials and industrialists that the United States authorities held in their occupation zone in Nuremberg, Germany, after the end of World War II. Euthanasia trials and Doctors' Trial are Holocaust trials and Nazi eugenics.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.

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Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute

The Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute (FCC Terre Haute) is a United States federal prison complex for male inmates in Indiana; much of the complex grounds is in Terre Haute, though portions are in unincorporated Vigo County.

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Final Solution

The Final Solution (die Endlösung) or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question (Endlösung der Judenfrage) was a Nazi plan for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews during World War II.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre

The Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre (NS-Tötungsanstalt Grafeneck) housed in Grafeneck Castle was one of Nazi Germany's killing centres as part of their forced euthanasia programme. Euthanasia trials and Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre are Nazi eugenics.

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Hadamar

Hadamar is a small town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.

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Hadamar killing centre

The Hadamar killing centre (NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar) was a killing facility involved in the Nazi involuntary euthanasia programme known as Aktion T4.

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Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering;; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal.

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Hitler's Chancellery

Hitler's Chancellery, officially known as the Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP ("Chancellery of the Führer of the Nazi Party"; abbreviated as KdF) was a Nazi Party organization.

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Irmgard Huber

Irmgard Huber (1901–1983) was the head nurse at the Hadamar Killing Facility.

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Jewish skull collection

The Jewish skull collection was an attempt by Nazi Germany to create an anthropological display to showcase the alleged racial inferiority of the "Jewish race" and to emphasize the Jews' status as Untermenschen ("subhumans"), in contrast to the Germanic race, which the Nazis considered to be superior.

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Karl Brandt

Karl Brandt (8 January 1904 – 2 June 1948) was a German physician and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in Nazi Germany.

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Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

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Kurt Blome

Kurt Blome (31 January 1894 – 10 October 1969) was a high-ranking Nazi scientist before and during World War II.

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Landsberg Prison

Landsberg Prison is a prison in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about west-southwest of Munich and south of Augsburg.

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Life (magazine)

Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nazi human experimentation

Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on prisoners by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945.

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Nuremberg

Nuremberg (Nürnberg; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 544,414 (2023) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.

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Nuremberg executions

The Nuremberg executions took place on 16 October 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials.

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Nuremberg trials

The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and atrocities against their citizens in World War II. Euthanasia trials and Nuremberg trials are Holocaust trials.

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Office of Scientific Research and Development

The Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) was an agency of the United States federal government created to coordinate scientific research for military purposes during World War II.

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Operation Paperclip

Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945–59.

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Operation Reinhard

Operation Reinhard or Operation Reinhardt (Aktion Reinhard or Aktion Reinhardt; also Einsatz Reinhard or Einsatz Reinhardt) was the codename of the secret German plan in World War II to exterminate Polish Jews in the General Government district of German-occupied Poland.

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Palace of Justice, Nuremberg

The Nuremberg Palace of Justice (Justizpalast) is a building complex in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany.

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Paul Nitsche

Hermann Paul Nitsche (November 25, 1876 – March 25, 1948) was a German psychiatrist known for his expert endorsement of the Third Reich's euthanasia authorization and who later headed the Medical Office of the T-4 Euthanasia Program.

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Pirna

Pirna (Pěrno) is a town in Saxony, Germany and capital of the administrative district Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge.

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Province of Hesse-Nassau

The Province of Hesse-Nassau was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1868 to 1918, then a province of the Free State of Prussia until 1944.

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Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre

The Sonnenstein Euthanasia Clinic (NS-Tötungsanstalt Sonnenstein; literally "National Socialist Killing Centre Sonnenstein") was a Nazi killing centre located in the former fortress of Sonnenstein Castle near Pirna in eastern Germany, where a hospital had been established in 1811. Euthanasia trials and Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre are Nazi eugenics.

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Soviet occupation zone in Germany

The Soviet occupation zone in Germany (or label) was an area of Germany that was occupied by the Soviet Union as a communist area, established as a result of the Potsdam Agreement on 1 August 1945.

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Telford Taylor

Telford Taylor (February 24, 1908 – May 23, 1998) was an American lawyer and professor.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust.

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Viktor Brack

Viktor Hermann Brack (9 November 1904 – 2 June 1948) was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and a convicted Nazi war criminal and one of the prominent organisers of the involuntary euthanasia programme Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people.

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Waldemar Hoven

Waldemar Hoven (10 February 1903 – 2 June 1948) was a Nazi physician at Buchenwald concentration camp, and convicted war criminal for conducting human experiments regarding typhus which led to the deaths of many concentration camp prisoners, and as one of the organizers of the euthanasia program Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people.

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Walter Schreiber

Walter Paul Emil Schreiber (21 March 1893 – 5 September 1970) was a medical officer with the German Army in World War I and a brigadier-general (Generalarzt) of the Wehrmacht Medical Service during World War II.

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Wilhelm Frick

Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a convicted war criminal and prominent German politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as Minister of the Interior in Adolf Hitler's cabinet from 1933 to 1943 and as the last governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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Wolfram Sievers

Wolfram Sievers (10 July 1905 – 2 June 1948) was a Nazi and convicted war criminal for medical atrocities carried out while he was managing director (Reichsgeschäftsführer) of the Ahnenerbe from 1935–1945.

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Zwiefalten

Zwiefalten is a municipality in the district of Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany located halfway between Stuttgart and Lake Constance.

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See also

Holocaust trials

• Anthony Sawoniuk
• Auschwitz trial
• Belsen trial
• Belsen trials
• Belzec trial
• Chełmno trials
• Dachau trials
• Doctors' Trial
• Eichmann in Jerusalem
• Eichmann trial
• Einsatzgruppen trial
• Euthanasia trials
• Feodor Fedorenko
• Frankfurt Auschwitz trials
• Hamburg Ravensbrück trials
• Hermann Friedrich Graebe
• IG Farben Trial
• Imre Finta
• Irmgard Furchner
• Ivan Polyukhovich
• John Demjanjuk
• Kastner trial
• Kharkov Trial
• Krasnodar Trial
• Majdanek trials
• Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials
• Nazi hunter
• Nuremberg principles
• Nuremberg trials
• Oskar Gröning
• Pohl trial
• Post–World War II Romanian war crime trials
• Reinhold Hanning
• Riga Trial
• RuSHA trial
• Sobibor trial
• Stutthof trials
• Supreme National Tribunal
• Treblinka trials
• Ulm Einsatzkommando trial
• War crimes trials in Soviet Estonia

Nazi eugenics

• Action 14f13
• Adolf Hitler
• Ahnenpass
• Aktion Brandt
• Aktion T4
• Alles Leben ist Kampf
• Aryan certificate
• Child euthanasia in Nazi Germany
• Dasein ohne Leben
• Doctors' Trial
• E. S. Gosney
• Eugen Fischer
• Euthanasia trials
• Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy
• Fischer–Saller scale
• Fremdvölkische
• Friedrich Ruttner
• Fritz Schachermeyr
• Gerhard Kretschmar
• German Blood Certificate
• German Society for Racial Hygiene
• Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre
• Hans Asperger
• Hereditary Health Court
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics
• Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
• Lebensborn
• Life unworthy of life
• Marriage loan
• Master race
• Mischling
• Mischling Test
• Moringen concentration camp
• Nazi eugenics
• Nur für Deutsche
• Nuremberg Laws
• Ovitz family
• Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis
• Racial policy of Nazi Germany
• Rassenschande
• Reinrassig
• Rhineland bastard
• Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre
• Spring of Life (2000 film)
• Sterilization of deaf people in Nazi Germany
• Untermensch
• Werner Catel
• Werner Lorenz
• Wilhelm Rediess

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_trials

Also known as Euthanasia trial.