Citation

Leidinger F. Psychiatr. Prax. 2014; 41(Suppl 1): S69-S75.

Vernacular Title

Das Schicksal der polnischen Psychiatrie unter deutscher Besatzung im Zweiten Weltkrieg.

Affiliation

LVR-Klinik Langenfeld.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

10.1055/s-0034-1370066

PMID

24983580

Abstract

Polish psychiatry was since its origin deeply influenced by German (Austrian) and Russian psychiatry. After the German assault Polish psychiatric patients were the first victims of mass executions, and the first to be killed by new developed "gassing" technology. Especially cruel was the fate of Jewish patients. German "health policy" in occupied Poland was only "starvation or shooting". Some hospitals continued working under German rule and received patients from Germany in the framework of Nazi-"euthanasia". The article describes the mostly ignored facts of the close link between the medical programme of annihilation of the "unfit" and the genocide of Poles and Jews.

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