Tötungsanstalt Grafeneck
Museum in Gomadingen, Germany
The Grafeneck killing centre (German: NS-Tötungsanstalt Grafeneck) housed in Grafeneck Castle was one of Nazi Germany's extermination centres as part of their forced euthanasia programme, Action T4. Today, it is a memorial site dedicated to the victims of the state-authorised programme. At least 10,500 mentally and physically disabled people, predominantly from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, were killed there during 1940. It was one of the first places in Nazi Germany where people were killed in large numbers in a gas chamber using carbon monoxide. This was the beginning of the Nazi killing of
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- Where:
- Gomadingen, Germany
- Coordinates:
- 48.39°N, 9.43°E
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