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The Sonnenstein Castle is a castle in Pirna, near Dresden, Germany. It housed a mental hospital, which operated from 1811 to the end of World War II in 1945. During the War, it functioned as an extermination centre for the Nazi Aktion T4 program. It was shut down following the war, and reopened in 1970.

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Sonnenstein Castle

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The Sonnenstein Castle is a castle in Pirna, near Dresden, Germany. It housed a mental hospital, which operated from 1811 to the end of World War II in...

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Sonnenstein

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Sonnenstein can refer to: Sonnenstein, Austria, a mountain in Austria. Sonnenstein Castle, a castle in Saxony, Germany. Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre...

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Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre

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Sonnenstein") was a Nazi killing centre located in the former fortress of Sonnenstein Castle near Pirna in eastern Germany, where a hospital had been established...

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Pirna

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levels between Königstein Fortress and Sonnenstein Castle and capitulated there on October 16, two days after Sonnenstein surrendered. In 1758, Austrian troops...

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Action 14f13

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Buchenwald, 850 from Ravensbrück and 214 from Groß-Rosen, were gassed at Sonnenstein Castle and Bernburg. From March to April 1942, some 1,600 women were selected...

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Frederick Augustus III of Saxony

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father-in-law's threatening to have her interned in a mental asylum at the Sonnenstein Castle for life. Her brother supported her in her wish to escape from Saxony...

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National Political Institutes of Education

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Patch for uniforms called "Gaudreieck" from school location "Adolf-Hitler-Schule Pirna" in Sonnenstein castle...

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Bilfinger

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Boat Lift in Germany completed in 2014 restoration and conversion of Sonnenstein Castle in Pirna for the Administration Offices in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge...

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Daniel Paul Schreber

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worsened in the following years and he was eventually transferred to Sonnenstein Castle. By 1899 he entered remission and was deemed "capable of meeting the...

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Saxon Psychiatric Museum

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Ages (Hospital St. Georg) up to the sanatorium and nursing homes (Sonnenstein Castle, Thonberg private institution, Dösen sanatorium). Hubert Kolling....

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Archduchess Louise of Austria

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by her father-in-law with being interned in a mental asylum at the Sonnenstein Castle for life, on 9 December 1902 and with the help of two of her maids...

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Dohna

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After 1460, when the seat of administration moved to Sonnenstein Castle in Pirna, the castle fell into ruins. In 1587 Fabien I, Burgrave of Dohna, was...

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Franz Conrad Romanus

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imprisoned in the Pleissenburg. Four days later he was brought to Sonnenstein Castle in Pirna. During a house search, additional counterfeit promissory...

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List of castles and palaces in Saxony

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Neurathen Castle, Rathen Nöthnitz Castle, Bannewitz Hunting Lodge Rehefeld, Rehefeld-Zaunhaus Reinhardtsgrimma Castle, Reinhardtsgrimma Sonnenstein Castle, Pirna...

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Wolf Caspar von Klengel

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architectural motifs can be found here. In 1688, he was commander of Sonnenstein Castle near Pirna and had it converted into a fortress. Eberhard Hempel:...

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Bockelnhagen

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Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 December 2011, it is part of the municipality Sonnenstein, of which it is an Ortschaft. The community has two constituent parts...

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Swedish invasion of Saxony

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next day, he sent Johan August Meijerfeldt southeast of Dresden, to Sonnenstein Castle at Pirna, while he bypassed Dresden to the north, now heading for...

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Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre

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January 1940 to the end of May/beginning of June 1940. Afterward worked at Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre and as a camp doctor in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Deputy:...

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Aktion T4

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included Grafeneck Castle in Baden-Württemberg (10,824 dead), Schloss Hartheim near Linz in Austria (over 18,000 dead), Sonnenstein in Saxony (15,000 dead)...

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Saxon Switzerland

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altercations. Bastei and Neurathen Castle Bärensteine and Rauenstein near Weißig Biela Valley Stolpen Castle Ruins of Wehlen Castle Rock arch near Wehlen Frienstein...

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Euthanasia trials

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zone in Dresden in June 1947 to prosecute those who had worked at the Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre in Pirna. There were 15 defendants, including Paul...

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Buchenwald concentration camp

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Action 14f13, prisoners deemed too weak or sick to work were sent to Sonnenstein Killing Facility, where they were murdered with carbon monoxide gas....

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Ansbach

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[Ansbach Medical and Nursing Clinic] to the extermination facilities Sonnenstein and Hartheim which were disguised as psychiatric institutions, as part...

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Viktor Brack

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There were six principal killing centers; these resided at Hartheim, Sonnenstein, Grafeneck, Bernburg, Brandenburg, and Hadamar; most of which, historian...

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