Lutz Kaelber, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Vermont

Kinderfachabteilungen ("Special Children's Wards"): Sites of Nazi "Children's 'Euthanasia'" Crimes and Their Commemoration in Europe

Kinderfachabteilungen: Orte der nationalsozialistischen "Kinder-Euthanasie" Verbrechen und der Erinnerung daran in Europa
“Specjalne oddziały dla dzieci”: Miejsca zbrodni „nazistowskiej eutanazji dzieci” i pamięć o nich w Europie
"Zvláštní dětské": Místa "nacistické dětské eutanazie" zločiny a vzpomínka na ni v Evropě

GERMANY
Baden-Wuerttemberg
Stuttgart
 Wiesloch
Bavaria (Bayern)
Ansbach
 Eglfing-Haar
Kaufbeuren-Irsee
Berlin
 Berlin-Wittenau
Brandenburg
 Görden
Hamburg
Langenhorn
 Rothenburgsort
Hesse (Hessen)
Eichberg
 Kalmenhof
Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen)
Lüneburg
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Sachsenberg
  Ueckermünde
North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Dortmund-Aplerbeck
 Niedermarsberg
Waldniel
Saxony (Sachsen)
Grossschweidnitz
Leipzig
 Leipzig-Dösen
Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt)
Uchtspringe
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Hesterberg
 Schleswig-Stadtfeld
Thuringia (Thüringen)
Stadtroda
AUSTRIA
Am Feldhof [Graz]
Am Spiegelgrund [Wien]
POLAND
Dziekanka (Gniezno) / Tiegenhof
Kocborowo (Starogard Gdanski) / Konradstein
Lubliniec / Loben
Wroclaw / Breslau
CZECH REPUBLIC
Dobrany / Wiesengrund

  Book with Raimond Reiter (co-editor) on Child Murder and “Special Children’s Wards” in Nazi Europe:  Commemoration and Historical Research (Hamburg 2011)
Picture of cover of book  English table of contents

Latest publication on the inclusion of Jewish minors in Nazi crimes against the disabled: "Jewish Children with Disabilities and Nazi 'Euthanasia' Crimes." Bulletin of the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies 17. PDF

Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“Virtual Traumascapes: The Commemoration of Nazi ‘Children's Euthanasia’ Online and On Site.” Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media 4 (2010): 13-44. Available at <http://www.digitalicons.org/issue04/files/2010/11/Kaelber-4.2.pdf> or here.

"Child Murder in Nazi Germany: The Memory of Nazi Medical Crimes and Commemoration of 'Children’s Euthanasia' Victims at Two Facilities (Eichberg, Kalmenhof)." Societies 2(3) (2012): 157-194. Available at <http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/2/3/157> and here. Note: there are two important supplementary files: 1 and 2.

Book chapter: “Gedenken an die NS-‘Kindereuthanasie’: Zwei Fallbeispiele und allgemeine Folgerungen zur Gedenkkultur ” (The Memory of NS-‘Children’s Euthanasia’: Two Case Studies and General Implications for the Culture of Commemoration). PDF (in: Den Opfern ihre Namen geben: NS-“Euthanasie”-Verbrechen, historisch-politische Verantwortung und Erinnerungskultur, ed. Arbeitskreis zur Erforschung der nationalsozialistischen “Euthanasie” und Zwangssterilisation, 2011).
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Comments or questions? Email:  Email: Lutz dot Kaelber at uvm dot edu
Lutz Kaelber, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Vermont.