Hartheim: Hitler's Secret Death Castle For The Disabled | WW2 Euthanasia Nazi History HD Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- In 1939, as the world stood on the brink of World War II, Hartheim Castle, Austria, was at the centre of a turning point of history. It had been a centre for those with physical or mental disabilities. But from 1939 to 1944, it acted as a pilot scheme for the ‘final solution.’
Over the years, hundreds of buses from all over Germany and Austria arrived in the castle courtyard. The buses were full of patients with Down’s Syndrome, schizophrenia, or with mental disabilities. Hartheim was presented as a clinic, yet none of these patients emerged alive. The SS used Hartheim to test their methods of mass murder.
Hartheim was top secret, its true purpose hidden from the public. The victim’s families weren’t told how their loved ones died. A team of workers, including doctors, administrators and bus drivers, all signed confidentiality agreements and participated in the cover up, including forging the death certificates.
In 1941, under pressure from the Catholic church, Hitler put an end to the euthanasia programme for fear of losing popular support. But Hartheim remained a place of mass extermination. Now it was prisoners of war, those deemed too old or too frail for hard labour, who were targeted. More than 30,000 people were sent from Mauthausen concentration camp to Hartheim, to be killed.
Many of the workers from Hartheim went to work in concentration camps during the war. They took their expertise to Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, where nearly two million Jews perished. Hartheim: the top secret Nazi school for mass murder.
This documentary was produced by Impala and directed by Aurélie Marquès & Grégory Aujol. It was first released in 2021.
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Michael Burleigh's "Death and Deliverance" is essential reading on this grim matter that everyone should know about. Cambridge Press 1994. Thank you for going there it takes great courage and compassion ❤
Number one you don’t have anybody that was actually there and number two a lot of these people were beyond saving their own families couldn’t look after them and all they did is scream agony 24 seven. What would you do, keep paying for their misery. Spend 1 billions for their continual torment. We’re not talking about people who are casually mentally ill. We’re talking about last resort.. if I’m wrong, please let me know, I would love to be wrong, so please tell me I am your student
What's with the sound dropping out from 40:00 to 40:20 ?
good documentary but one point of criticism: you completely left out the role of Austrian Dr. Rudolf Lonauer, the actual responsible medical leader of Hartheim. Dr. Georg Renno was only the deputy medical leader of Hartheim.
Number one you don’t have anybody that was actually there and number two a lot of these people were beyond saving their own families couldn’t look after them and all they did is scream agony 24 seven. What would you do, keep paying for their misery. Spend 1 billions for their continual torment. We’re not talking about people who are casually mentally ill. We’re talking about last resort.. if I’m wrong, please let me know, I would love to be wrong, so please tell me I am your student
A sickening case,but this is a part of Humanity(Human Life on 🌎)🤒
Amazing documentary! Thank You 🎉
What is the French connection with the castle?
It's a documentary by a French production company. That's why the people are speaking in French. The only English bit you hear, the voice-over, was added at a later date. For distribution of the documentary to the English speaking world.
This is beyond belief and the imagination people with know voice . That's how it starts I guess
It started in the US first. Germany was late with implementation of the program.
@@billbillards569 Just as in the GULAGS, they were in operation before and after the 3rd Reich concentration camps!
@@billbillards569 The US only sterilised the disabled & mentally ill. They never exterminated them & burned their bodies. Then lied to their families about what happened to their loved ones.
Number one you don’t have anybody that was actually there and number two a lot of these people were beyond saving their own families couldn’t look after them and all they did is scream agony 24 seven. What would you do, keep paying for their misery. Spend 1 billions for their continual torment. We’re not talking about people who are casually mentally ill. We’re talking about last resort.. if I’m wrong, please let me know, I would love to be wrong, so please tell me I am your student. Do not let these corporations like the history channel who put out BS documentaries that mean absolutely nothing at all on a weekly basis determine your worldview.
@@JohnCannonBand You're right
Number one you don’t have anybody that was actually there and number two a lot of these people were beyond saving their own families couldn’t look after them and all they did is scream agony 24 seven. What would you do, keep paying for their misery. Spend 1 billions for their continual torment. We’re not talking about people who are casually mentally ill. We’re talking about last resort.. if I’m wrong, please let me know, I would love to be wrong, so please tell me I am your student