Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre
Gomadingen, Nazi Germany
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Grafeneck Castle, located in Gomadingen, Germany, served as one of Nazi Germany's principal extermination centres under Action T4, the state-authorised forced euthanasia programme. Between 1940 and its closure, at least 10,500 mentally and physically disabled people, primarily from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, were systematically murdered there using carbon monoxide gas chambers—among the first mass killings by gas in Nazi Germany and marking the beginning of the regime's systematic elimination of the ill and disabled. The castle also housed the central office of the "Charitable Ambulance Transport GmbH" (Gekrat), which coordinated the transport of victims. Today the site functions as a memorial dedicated to those murdered in the programme.
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- château, military museum, euthanasia centre in Nazi Germany
- Place
- Gomadingen, Nazi Germany
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