DDR-Justiz und NS-Verbrechen
Nazi Crimes on Trial
* Glossary *
Case Nr.
1061
Crime Category: Euthanasia
Accused:
Hebold, Dr. Otto Life Sentence
Court:
LG/BG Cottbus 650712
Country where the crime was committed: GDR
Crime Location: Berlin, HS KL Sachsenhausen, HuPa Bautzen-Seida, HuPa Bernburg, HuPa
Eberswalde, HuPa Pfaffenrode, HuPa Schussenried, HuPa Sonnenstein, Brandenburg-Görden
prison
Crime Date: 4005-4303
Victims: Mentally Disabled, Members of the Resistance
Nationality: German, unknown (foreign)
Agency: Euthanasia-Aktion T4 (medical expert)
Subject of the proceeding: Participation in the 'Euthanasia Program'
through the evaluation of approx. 6000 registration forms delivered by mental
institutions as well as of approx. 25000 patients from mental institutions in
Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Württemberg, Lippe-Detmold, Thüringia, Silesia and the
Altmark. Participation in gassings in the mental institutions of Bernburg and
Sonnenstein. Selection of mentally ill and feeble-minded inmates of KL
Sachsenhausen (Aktion 14f13)
Published in DDR-Justiz und NS-Verbrechen vol. II
The court decision(s) of this case can be
found in the printed volumes of the series or (on-line)
here.
Press reports