Haar Nervenheilanstalt

During the Nazi dictatorship, at least 2025 people with mental or physical disabilities were deported to the killing centers Grafeneck and Hartheim near Linz and murdered there as part of the Aktion T4. Some sources report that over 2400 people from or via Eglfing-Haar were deported to these killing centers. After Aktion T4, further killing actions followed, including the "Aktion Brandt" for the creation of hospital capacity. In so-called "hunger houses," patients, adults, and children were starved to death, legitimized by the so-called "Hungerkost-Erlass" (Hunger Ration Decree) of November 1942. Between the end of 1942 and the middle of 1945, it is estimated that 444 patients died from the effects of malnutrition. In addition, 332 children were killed by an overdose of the sleeping pill Luminal. At the same time, Anton von Braunmühl treated many patients in the clinic with the new shock therapies of that time. The medical director of the Eglfing-Haar Nervenheilanstalt (mental hospital), Hermann Pfannmüller, acted as an expert witness for these extermination actions. In the Prosektur (anatomical institute) of the Munich KWI ( Kaiser Wilhelm Institute) for Psychiatry in Eglfing-Haar, under the leadership of Hans Schleussing, the organs of children who died in excruciating pain during vaccination experiments in Irsee were examined. In Haar, not only were decisions about killings made, but killings were also carried out directly. For the murders committed at the Eglfing-Haar institution, three caregivers were sentenced to two years and six months in prison each, and the head of the institution, Pfannmüller, received a six-year prison sentence in 1949, with the time spent in internment and investigative detention counted toward the sentence. Today, plaques on the grounds of the Isar-Amper-Klinikum München-Ost, a psychiatric and neurological hospital in Haar (near Munich), and an exhibition on Nazi crimes on site commemorate these events.

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