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Hadamar (German pronunciation: [ˈhaːdamaʁ]) is a small town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Hadamar is known for its Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry /Centre for Social Psychiatry, lying at the edge of town, in whose outlying buildings is also found the Hadamar Memorial.
The Hadamar killing centre (German: NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar) was a killing facility involved in the Nazi involuntary euthanasia programme known as Aktion T4. It was housed within a psychiatric hospital located in the German town of Hadamar , near Limburg in Hessen .
In early April 1945, the unit captured the German town of Hadamar, which housed a psychiatric clinic where almost 15,000 men, women, and children were killed between 1941 and March 1945 in the Nazi Euthanasia Program.
Hadamar Memorial Museum commemorates those persecuted in the course of the Nazi “euthanasia” crimes. Between 1941 and 1945, nearly 15,000 people were murdered in what was the Hadamar killing centre at the time. Those who were murdered included mentally ill and disabled persons.
The Hadamar Trial of October 1945 was the first mass atrocity trial held in the US occupation zone of Germany following World War II.
A week before American units liberated their first concentration camp, the US 2nd Infantry Division uncovered one of the killing centers of the Nazi regime's so-called "euthanasia" program at Hadamar, Germany.
Hadamar was a psychiatric clinic and one of six killing facilities in the so-called Euthanasia Program. The goal of the Nazi Euthanasia Program was to murder people with mental and physical disabilities. The program claimed an estimated 250,000 lives. At Hadamar alone, 15,000 people were killed.
