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Ilka Knüppel
Jan 295 min read
The Ashes of the Dead
75 women were gassed to death at the Bernburg Killing Center on March 31, 1941. The total number of people with disabilities murdered at...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jan 2710 min read
Forgotten Victims of National Socialism: the names of 66 women with disabilities killed at Bernburg on March 31, 1941.
March 31, 1941, dawned snowy, unusual for an early spring day in central Germany. The staff would have woken early, focused on a busy day...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jan 216 min read
Heinz Mühlmann -Ruth's Brother
Heinz Christian Felix Mühlmann was born 13 months after his sister Ruth to their parents, Emma and Paul. Ruth and her brother Heinz in...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jan 18 min read
Bernburg Killing Center - the employees
None of Hitler's plan would have come to fruition if he did not have willing minions to carry it out. Below are the people we know of...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jan 11 min read
Bernburg State Psychiatric Hospital - its transformation to Killing Center
In 1940, the transformation of a portion of the Bernburg State Psychiatric Hospital and Nursing Home to a Nazi Euthanasia Killing Center...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 24, 20231 min read
Frohe Weihnachten from this blog
There's a picture of Ruth from either 1931 or 1932 on what we believe to be her Christmas Break from Neinstedt Hospital. I had also...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 21, 20233 min read
Bernburg Psychiatric Hospital - its beginning.
I have visited Bernburg, Germany twice. In January of 2020 (we literally first heard of "Wuhan, China" in the Doja Wellness Center...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 17, 20231 min read
The Killing Centers
There were six Aktion T4 killing centers. All facilities were placed in an existing psychiatric hospital so as not to draw unneccessary...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 16, 20232 min read
Leukoplast Tape - a revealing detail.
You may wonder how the authorities kept all the patients straight as they shuttled them from institution to institution. I found several...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 15, 20235 min read
Who was chosen and why?
“By late 1939, the next phase of eugenic selection - euthanasia - had already commenced: the period of sterilization was ending, the...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 14, 20231 min read
Excellent Aktion T4 Blogs
I have come across two excellently written blogs during my research and thought I would share both with my readers in case you are...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 14, 20234 min read
Gekrat Buses - "Into the Blue"
“There goes the murder box!” children in Hadamar would shout when a gray bus went by. Gekrat Buses Photograph. Public Domain. It was an...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 13, 20231 min read
Justice Served - Court Room 600
It was extremely emotional to me to visit Court Room 600 in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany on December 6, 2023. Most people...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 10, 20231 min read
Nazi Euthanasia Research Project in Erlangen, Germany
I was able to meet with Dr. Sabrina Freund, the research assistant at the Chair of the History of Medicine at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and...
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Ilka Knüppel
Nov 29, 20231 min read
Adding Aktion T4 research to the German Christmas Market Vacation
I'm leaving tomorrow for a trip to some of the prettiest (so I'm told) Germany Christmas Markets! Our German Club, the Baltimore Kickers...
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Ilka Knüppel
Nov 25, 20233 min read
Altscherbitz - the Intermediate Institution
Even with the war going on, rumors started to circulate that something nefarious was happening to people with disabilities. Patients...
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Ilka Knüppel
Nov 22, 20231 min read
Ruth's Family Descendents
In honor of the American holiday, Thanksgiving, I thought a post about Tante Ruth's family would be appropriate. Not only does Tante Ruth...
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Ilka Knüppel
Nov 20, 20231 min read
Caught Getty Images selling this photo!
A friend brough this link to my attention. Getty Images is trying to sell a photo of me holding a copyrighted photo of Tante Ruth!...
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Ilka Knüppel
Nov 19, 20235 min read
Second admission to Neinstedt protects Ruth from Forced Sterilization
View of Neinstedter Anstalten on a vintage postcard. After a year of living at home with her family, Neinstedt Hospital contacted Ruth's...
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Ilka Knüppel
Nov 16, 20232 min read
Train travel between Ruth's home and Neinstedt
Ruth’s family did not have the means to own a car, so when they would come to visit her at Neinstedt, or to pick her up for the either...
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