Memorial Plaques for the Victims of the NS Regime of the Anatomy Innsbruck

The Anatomical Institute of the University of Innsbruck received 199 corpses during the NS period, including those of 59 individuals executed by hanging in the Munich-Stadelheim prison, 10 corpses of people from the Tirol-Vorarlberg region and two from the Salzburg region, who had been executed by hanging at various locations or had committed suicide by hanging, two corpses of deserters who had been shot by military justice at the Innsbruck Paschberg, as well as 39 corpses, mostly Soviet prisoners of war from the Stalag XVIII C St. Johann im Pongau (28) and its sub-camp in Landeck (7) as well as from the Jenbach camp (4). One corpse belonged to a Jewish prisoner from the Reichenau labor education camp. Among the corpses were seven Jewish victims. After completing his research project on "Innsbruck Anatomy in the Third Reich," Erich Brenner, professor of anatomy, initiated in February 2021 the installation of memorial plaques in the building of the institute. They commemorate 130 individuals, mostly by name, whose body parts were used for dissection courses or research purposes after the war. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a dedication ceremony was postponed.