2007/04/01 by Slavko Ziherl, Zdenka Čebašek‐Travnik, Zvonka Zupanič-Slavec · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices #Medical History and Research
paper · doi:10.2753/imh0020-7411360109
openalex publication_date 2007/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Hitler's eugenics program for the extermination of inferior and feeble persons involved Slovenia in the worst possible way. In May 1941, German psychiatrists examined all 380 patients of the psychiatric hospital in Novo Celje, which was one of two psychiatric hospitals in the then-Slovenia. They ordered the execution of the majority and, in June of the same year, transported them to the Hartheim "euthanasia institute" near Linz, transferring only around 30 younger employable patients to the psychiatric hospital in Feldhof in Austria. We examined all the available documentation, which was modest and includes no original lists of the illnesses of these patients. We describe the time, place, and occurrence of this terrible crime against psychiatric patients.