Mass murder of psychiatric patients 1939–1945 in Lower Saxonia: administration and execution

Mentally ill and addicted offenders and their treatment in Nazi Germany

Mentally ill and addicted offenders are a small, but mostly ignored group of victims. The main program of Nazi mass murder, the so called T4-action captured these patients without exception. 1. This contribution will abstract shortly the organization and structures of the T4-action. 2. Short case histories of mentally ill or addicted offenders will be presented. They originate from the former "...

The killing of psychiatric patients in Nazi Germany between 1939-1945.

Between 1939 and 1945, 180,000 psychiatric patients were killed in Nazi Germany. This paper opens with a brief discussion of the reasons for addressing this issue today; it is followed by the details of the so-called euthanasia program that entailed killing of patients by gas in special hospitals in the years 1939-1941, and in psychiatric hospitals in the years 1942-1945. In this latter period,...

The Prospect of the United States and Saudi Arabia’s Relations In Light of the Khashoggi Murder

A decade after the establishment of the Saudi regime Riyadh and Washington constructed a strategic alliance between themselves in 1945. On the other hand, given the “Pivot to Asia” doctrine adopted by the Obama and Trump Administrations, the decline of Washington's dependence on Saudi oil, as well as some important events such as the murdering of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Riyadh offic...

The connections between eugenics, sterilization and mass murder in Germany from 1933 to 1945.

The comparison of forensic-psychiatric traits between female and male perpetrators of murder or attempted murder.

The aim of this investigation was to define more clearly specific forensic-psychiatric characteristics of female murder or attempted murder perpetrators. The retrospective method applied was based on the comparison of the data from forensic-psychiatric assessments carried out in the Center for Forensic Psychiatry, Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce, Zagreb, from 1983 to 1997 (including 70 female and 7...