The so-called Nazi Euthanasia Program targeted for murder Germans with mental and physical disabilities. It claimed the lives of an estimated 250,000 people.
Hartheim castle, a euthanasia killing center where people with physical and mental disabilities were killed by gassing and lethal injection. Hartheim, Austria, date uncertain.
Item View![Cemetery at Hadamar where victims of euthanasia killing at Hadamar were buried. [LCID: 73719]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/7432f1ec-426c-4f49-9922-d6376b476927.jpg "Cemetery at Hadamar where victims of euthanasia killing at Hadamar were buried. [LCID: 73719]")
Cemetery at Hadamar. This photograph was taken toward the end of the war. Hadamar, Germany, April 1945.
Item View![This photo originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. [LCID: film01]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/2ee91faf-6a84-49b4-88a1-7a2f7ffed943.jpg "This photo originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. [LCID: film01]")
This photo originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. It shows two doctors in a ward in an unidentified asylum. The existence of the patients in the ward is described as "life only as a burden." Such propaganda images were intended to develop public sympathy for the Euthanasia Program.
Item View![A US Army soldier views the cemetery at the Hadamar Institute, where victims of the Nazi euthanasia program were buried in mass graves. [LCID: 05508]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/c398ca5a-ba98-43b5-83a9-010b865a594b.jpg "A US Army soldier views the cemetery at the Hadamar Institute, where victims of the Nazi euthanasia program were buried in mass graves. [LCID: 05508]")
A US Army soldier views the cemetery at Hadamar, where victims of the Nazi euthanasia program were buried in mass graves. This photograph was taken by an American military photographer soon after the liberation. Germany, April 5, 1945.
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