Miriam and Eva Mozes montage

Twins Miriam and Eva Mozes (at right) and other Auschwitz survivors with dissection room of mental hospital in the background. (DNAi location: Chronicle > In the Third Reich)

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15727. Miriam and Eva Mozes

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Dissection room adjacent to the Bernburg gas chamber.

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Benno Müller-Hill takes James Watson on a tour of the gas chamber at Bernberg Psychiatric Hospital, one of six euthanasia facilities for mental patients established in 1940-41. Although euthanasia was first used for children with severe birth defects,

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15755. Psychiatric hospital in Wiesloch, Germany, about 1925

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