E318: The Children of Spiegelgrund

About this episode

This episode explores the dark history of the Am Spiegelgrund institution in Vienna during the Nazi regime, focusing on the medical abuse of vulnerable children.

Vienna, 1940. On the hills above the city stood a children’s psychiatric institution called Am Spiegelgrund. Officially it was a place for treatment, observation, and care. In reality though, it became part of the Nazi system that classified vulnerable children as “unfit,” subjected them to medical abuse, and in hundreds of cases sent them to their deaths. This episode focuses on the historical background: how a modern medical system was abused as mechanism for sorting, controlling, and ultimately killing the most vulnerable children in society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topics covered

• Nazi medical abuse
• children's psychiatric institutions
• historical background
• vulnerable children

Keywords

• Spiegelgrund
• Vienna
• 1940
• medical abuse
• Nazi system

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Children of Spiegelgrund

Places: Vienna

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