Nazis gassed Hitler's relative

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Nazis gassed Hitler's relative

Susanna Loof in Vienna, Associated Press
Wednesday January 19, 2005
The Guardian

One of the thousands of victims of the Nazi regime's programme to kill mentally ill people was a relative of Adolf Hitler, two historians said yesterday.
The woman, identified only as Aloisia V, was 49 when she was gassed to death on December 6 1940 in Hartheim castle near the northern Austrian city of Linz, Timothy Ryback said.

Mr Ryback, an American who now lives in Salzburg and heads the Obersalzberg Institute in Berchtesgaden, Germany, said the details surrounding the woman's death surfaced last week, after Obersalzberg archivist Florian Beierl gained access to her medical file at a Vienna medical institution where she had been treated.

An ink stamp on the file serves as "proof of extermination", Mr Ryback said. "It's painful to see what this woman went through. It highlights the cruelty and brutality of that system to an excruciating degree."

That mental illness flourished in Hitler's extended family is nothing new. A 1944 Gestapo report, known for decades, described Aloisia's line of the family as "idiotic progeny", Mr Beierl said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1393658,00.html

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1. From The Independent

Hitler's mentally ill relative was sent to gas chamber
By Stephen Castle
19 January 2005


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Hartheim Castle was a training ground for the SS killers who later murdered people in their tens of thousands at the extermination camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz. Doctors killed thousands with lethal injections and in primitive coal-gas chambers after Hitler decreed the mentally disabled to be "useless mouths" and "unworthy of life".
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Wolfgang Eisenmenger, a forensic medicine specialist involved in the research, said: "An expert on hereditary psychological illnesses could perhaps draw some conclusions from the results of the reconstructed family tree.

"Given the basis of the Nazi ideology and Hitler's own world view, the very notion that congenital insanity exists in a paternal line in Hitler's family itself is interesting, to say the least," he said.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=602282

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[Benhurst]

2. Fascist "family values" remain consistent.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

3. "Idiotic progeny"?

Sounds like an apt term for George41 and Barbara's spawn...

[Vidar]

4. I slightly prefer hell-spawn.