Wearing the Letter P by Sophie Hodorowicz Knab

Author:Sophie Hodorowicz Knab
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

An American sentry stands guard in front of the Hadamar Institute near Wiesbaden in Hessen-Nassau after its liberation. It was one of six hospitals and sanitoria in Germany and Austria in which the Nazi euthanasia program was carried out that included Polish and Russian forced laborers.

Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Rosanne Bass Fulton.

All of the patients admitted received essentially the same treatment, with none living more than a few hours after their arrival. The patients were sent to Hadamar by train. Some of the individuals were already dead when they arrived. The patients were duly registered in the log book and then taken to their rooms. The evidence showed that the Poles and Russians were neither examined nor treated for tuberculosis and the hospital had no facilities for its treatment. The men were placed in a separate room from the female patients and children. The women and children were helped out of their clothes and readied for bed by the female nurses. The men were assisted to bed by the male nurses. The male nurses informed them that they were receiving vaccinations against communicable diseases when in reality they received injections of morphine and scopolamine. All were killed either by hypodermic injections of morphine or scopolamine or by oral doses of veronal or chloral. According to the testimony, the women and children died within twenty minutes to an hour and a half.96

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