Infamous Address

Nazi Germany's General Foundation for Welfare and Institutional Care was located at Tiergartenstraße 4. It was the bureau responsible for the deaths of physically and mentally handicapped people in the years just before the holocaust. Germans who knew about the program as simply the T4 Action.

The building is no longer there but a plaque in the sidewalk commemorates the horrors that were mandated at the site. Hospitals throughout the nation were ordered to perform euthanasia on patients who were considered incurable. That meant the“criminally insane,” schizophrenics, epileptics, people with Huntington’s, chorea, advanced syphilis, senile dementia, paralysis, encephalitis and “terminal neurological conditions generally” (and of course "non-Aryan" patients were always welcomed by T4).

The instigators and participating physicians of the T4 action were charged in the "Doctors' Trial," one of the several trials following the major war crimes trial. 20 of the 23 defendants were medical doctors, seven were hanged.