From May 1940 to November 1944, about 30,000 people, including disabled individuals, mental patients, prisoners, and laborers, were killed in gas chambers at Hartheim Castle and burned. Researchers ...

Eighty years ago this week, the most lethal “T4” euthanasia center began implementing “merciful deaths” for physically and mentally disabled Germans. Hartheim Castle was not far from Austria’s Linz, ...

VIENNAVIENNA — A model of an Austrian castle where the Nazis murdered about 30,000 people – including many who were mentally ill or disabled – is headed to a U.S. museum. Hartheim Castle was one of ...

A layer of human ashes several centimetres thick and bone remains covering an area of around 450 square meters - excavations at the former Nazi killing centre in Hartheim (Upper Austria) have revealed ...

When the busses left, the nurse said to the children, 'Today you have to pray a lot, because today you go up the chimney and meet the good Lord.' The children of the area knew these vehicles and said, ...

Germans used Hartheim Castle to 'improve their knowledge of everything that we (later) see at Auschwitz' You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. The ...

Renovations at a castle in northern Austria revealed remains of some 30,000 people killed there by the Nazis. The bones and ashes were buried last Friday in a ceremony that also served as the ...

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 ...

The Nazis had always claimed the men seized in Amsterdam had died of natural causes Over 100 Dutchmen were sent to their deaths at a secret Nazi gas chamber in 1941, a year before Nazis began mass ...

In Parliament, the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp was commemorated. The memorial ceremony focused on Hartheim Castle and the people murdered there. Descendants of two victims and a ...

One of the thousands of victims of the Nazi regime’s programme to kill mentally ill people was a relative of Adolf Hitler, two historians said today.