In the 20th century a tradition of psychiatric ideas related to housing and work did not develop in Germany. Particularly, there were only sporadic contributions from university psychiatry. Work was more frequently explicit subject of discussions than housing. Both areas were - slowly and in discontinuity - established as criteria of integration of people with mental illnesses, which was increasingly accepted as an aim of mental health care.

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Beddies, Thomas Die Einbeziehung von Minderjährigen in die nationalsozialistischen Medizinverbrechen -dargestellt am Beispiel der brandenburgischen Landesanstalt GördenPraxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie 58 (2009) SummaryChild-"Euthanasia" in Nazi-Germany -the Case of the Psychiatric Clinic Brandenburg-Görden he article shows, through a study of the Berlin-Brandenburg region, that children and juveniles who were subjected to the killings of diseased and disabled, or mentally retarded persons during the hird Reich did not only fall victim to the operations of the "Reichsausschuss" ("Reich Commission for Registration of Severe Disorders in Childhood"). Many were also included in the gas chamber killings of the "T4"-action and in various decentralized killing actions. To gain scientiic knowledge, the brains of many of these patients were examined by German neuropathologists. It will be shown that the purpose of the killings was not the painless ending of individual sufering, but that they constituted a means of freeing the public from so-called "ballast existences", whose lives were only prolonged if they could be of scientiic use.Prax. Kinderpsychol. Kinderpsychiat. 58/2009, 518-529 Keywords Child "Euthanasia" -Human Experimentation -National Socialism -History of Medical Ethics -Berlin-Brandenburg ZusammenfassungAm Beispiel der Region Berlin/Brandenburg wird belegt, dass Kinder und Jugendliche im Rahmen der Tötung kranker und behinderter Menschen in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus nicht allein dem sogenannten "Reichsausschuss"-Verfahren zum Opfer fielen, sondern auch in die Gasmord-Aktion "T4" und in die dezentralen Tötungsaktionen einbezogen wurden. Am Beispiel neuropathologischer Grundlagenforschung wird auch die Zusammenarbeit verschiedener medizinischer Disziplinen, die sich an der humanexperimentellen Funktionalisierung der Kinder beteiligten, dargestellt. So kann gezeigt werden, dass es bei der Tötung eben nicht um die schmerzlose und unmerkliche Beendigung individuellen Leidens ging, sondern um die Befreiung des Allgemeinwesens von "Ballastexistenzen", deren Leben nur dann verlängert wurde, wenn sie noch "der Wissenschaft dienen" konnten.

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