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Am Spiegelgrund was the name of a "Children's Clinic" in Vienna. Although called a clinic it in fact was a centre for the Euthenasia of children. Image File history File links Circle-question-red. ... Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 UN complex in Vienna, with the non-affiliated Austria Center Vienna in front - picture taken from Danube Tower in nearby Danube Park. ...

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Hitler's "Final Solution" was the genocide of every Jew in Europe. There were also many euthanasia centres in Germany and Austria for people suffering from mental diseases or handicaps : Bergen Belsen, Birkenau, and most infamous Auschwitz. But not just adults were killed. Children were "mercifully" sent to so called Children's Hospitals. The most prominent of these was the Kinderspital (Children's Clinic) am Spiegelgrund in Vienna. Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... In a February 26, 1942 letter to German diplomat Martin Luther, Reinhard Heydrich follows up on the Wannsee Conference by asking Luther for administrative assistance in the implementation of the Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution of the Jewish Question). ... Look up Genocide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Euthanasia (from Greek: ευθανασία -ευ, eu, good, θανατος, thanatos, death) is the practice of terminating the life of a person or an animal because they are perceived as living an intolerable life, in a painless or minimally painful way either by lethal injection, drug overdose, or by the withdrawal of life support. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Birkenau may mean the following. ... Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ...

Euthanasia of children

Spiegelgrund was the home of one Heinrich Gross, or as he was known by his subordinates, The Scythe. The children's clinic held within it the same horrors that would await Jews in Auschwitz, but with a medical twist. Perfectly normal children were deemed handicapped and put to sleep, much like one would do to a dog. The halls of the Children's Clinic were silent, the bleached white walls and kindly attendants luring children into a hellish nightmare hospital. One of the first of the horrors of the Clinic was the uncertainty. Children began to disappear, to die for no reason. Attendants, including the psychiatrist Heinrich Gross, smothered children in their sleep. Upon inquiry, they would blame a fatal muscle conniption caused by the mental state of a perfectly normal patient. Children's oxygen masks would be filled with carbon dioxide, suffocating them in a painful death. Heinrich, the Scythe, would blame an unfortunate case of pneumonia. The Scythe was unrelentless. Poison would be slipped into food and randomly given to starving children. Heinrich Gross (1914 – Dec. ... Using a scythe A scythe (IPA /sαɪð/, most likely from Old English siðe, sigði) is an agricultural hand tool for mowing and reaping grass or crops. ... Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound composed of one carbon and two oxygen atoms. ... The skull and crossbones symbol traditionally used to label a poisonous substance. ...

The Scythe was far from finished. As if death was a punishment enough, their small bodies were mutilated in hellish "autopsies". Brains were removed and placed in formaldehyde jars. Legs, arms, fingers, any kind of extremity imaginable was removed, placed in a jar, and stored in the basement. The Scythe kept a few of the specimens for himself. Am Spiegelgrund was the place of over 800 deaths, the vast majority of them of innocent children. The Scythe was never convicted, his trial was indefinitely postponed due to insanity charges. 600 children were buried in a secret memorial service. Sadly, the only recognizable part of the children were the labels on their jars. Finally they were officially buried in 2002 and Gross had his Honorary Cross for Science and Art (awarded in 1975) stripped in 2003. He died in 2005. For the former Death Metal band called Autopsy, see Autopsy (band). ... The chemical compound formaldehyde (also known as methanal), is a gas with a strong pungent smell. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...