Memorial Plaque for NS Victims in the Psychiatry Am Steinhof

In 1988, a memorial plaque for the victims of Nazi medicine in the psychiatry at Am Steinhof was unveiled in the foyer of the administrative building of the former Heil- and Pflegeanstalt Am Steinhof, located at Otto-Wagner-Spital on Baumgartner Höhe 1. The memorial plaque was the first symbol on site to address their murder. During the National Socialist regime, more than 7500 patients, including approximately 800 children, 3200 patients who were sent to the extermination facility Hartheim near Linz, and approximately 3500 individuals who were deliberately left to die through starvation and injections, were killed. The scale of these crimes was not addressed on the memorial plaque.