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Hartheim Register [LCID: 2015822z]
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Hartheim Register

One of the primary documents used to calculate the number of deaths in the Nazi "euthanasia" program is this register discovered in a locked filing cabinet by US Army troops in 1945 at a killing site in Hartheim, Austria. The right page details by month the number of patients who were "disinfected" in 1940. The final column indicates that 35,224 persons had been put to death that year.

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documenting the Holocaust Hartheim Euthanasia Program mass atrocities
  • National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD

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