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Item # 690397
July 06, 1945
STARS & STRIPES, London Edition, July 6, 1945
* Kaufbeuren-Irsee in Bavaria, Germany
* Psychiatric hospital atrocities - murders
* Nazi "euthanasia" killing center program
This was the: "Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations" as noted in the masthead. Penciled at the top is "War Dept."
The front page reports include: "Double Air Smash At Japs Reported" "Life In Berlin Humdrum Now" "Nazis Slew Babies in Murder Mill After VE-Day" and more.
Among the page 3 sports reports is mention and photo of famed one-armed baseball player Pete Gray.
Four pages, tabloid-size, nice condition.
background: The atrocities at Kaufbeuren-Irsee are uniquely chilling because the systematic murder of "undesirable" patients, including children, persisted for several weeks after the Nazi regime had officially surrendered in May 1945. Under the direction of Dr. Valentin Faltlhauser, the facility utilized the "starvation diet" (Hungerkost) and lethal injections to eliminate those deemed a burden to the state, resulting in a total of over 1,500 deaths during the war years. The most haunting aspect of this history is that the local medical staff continued these killings even as American forces occupied the surrounding town, largely because the liberators initially mistook the asylum for a standard civilian hospital. It wasn't until July 1945—nearly two months after V-E Day—that U.S. military investigators uncovered the horrifying reality of emaciated survivors and fresh corpses, including that of four-year-old Richard Jenne, who is recorded as the final victim of the Nazi euthanasia program.
Category: World War II
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