Euthanasie Memorial on the grounds of the Klagenfurt/Celovec Clinic

During the National Socialism, people with physical or mental disabilities were considered "life unworthy" and were systematically murdered. At the Klagenfurt Gaukrankenhaus, hospital staff killed at least 700 patients between 1941 and 1945, 733 others were deported in four death transports in 1940 and 1941 to the extermination facility Hartheim in Upper Austria and murdered there. In addition, compulsory sterilizations and abortions were carried out at the Gaukrankenhaus on people deemed, according to NS ideology, "genetically burdened," "racially inferior," "antisocial," or "work-shy." In 1988, on the initiative of physicians from the hospital, a memorial in the form of a white marble figure titled "The Mourner" was unveiled in the park in front of the Psychiatry building. In the early 2000s, on the initiative of Primarius Herwig Oberlerchner, an information plaque about the events of the NS euthanasia in Carinthia was added.