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Hadamar (German pronunciation: [ˈhaːdamaʁ]) is a small town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Hadamar is known for its Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry /Centre for Social Psychiatry, lying at the edge of town, in whose outlying buildings is also found the Hadamar Memorial.
The Hadamar killing centre (German: NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar) was a killing facility involved in the Nazi involuntary euthanasia programme known as Aktion T4. It was housed within a psychiatric hospital located in the German town of Hadamar , near Limburg in Hessen .
In early April 1945, the unit captured the German town of Hadamar, which housed a psychiatric clinic where almost 15,000 men, women, and children were killed between 1941 and March 1945 in the Nazi Euthanasia Program.
Hadamar ist eine Stadt mit 13.093 Einwohnern im mittelhessischen Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg. Sie grenzt an die Kreisstadt Limburg an der Lahn und liegt am Südrand des Westerwaldes am Elbbach in einer Höhe von 120 bis 390 m ü. NN. Bekannt ist Hadamar für die am Stadtrand gelegene Vitos Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Hadamar, in ...
The 1945 Hadamar Trial (October 8–15, 1945) was the first mass atrocity trial in the US zone of Germany following World War II.
Hadamar Memorial Museum commemorates those persecuted in the course of the Nazi “euthanasia” crimes. Between 1941 and 1945, nearly 15,000 people were murdered in what was the Hadamar killing centre at the time. Those who were murdered included mentally ill and disabled persons.
On 26 March 1945, US Army units reached the town of Hadamar on their way to Central Germany. They liberated the town and the institution from National Socialism and ended the murder of the ill that over 15,000 patients had fallen victim to during the “T4” programme and the subsequent „decentralised euthanasia“ .
