OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article was to achieve a commemoration of patients of the Healing and Nursing Institute in Günzburg who were victims of "Aktion T4". METHODS: On the basis of pre-defined criteria several individual patient documents were selected for this study and analyzed historically. Most items of information concerning patient histories and diagnoses were obtained from the stock R 179 of the branch office of the federal archives in Berlin Lichterfelde. Further supplementary information was extracted from administrative documents and patient charts of the archives of the psychiatric department at the regional hospital Günzburg. RESULTS: The historical reconstruction of three individual life histories contributes to a literary memorial for the victims. CONCLUSIONS: It is a historical responsibility to remember the victims of the "Aktion T4" by contributing to a reconstruction of their life histories.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article was to achieve a commemoration of patients of the Healing and Nursing Institute in Günzburg who were victims of "Aktion T4". METHODS: On the basis of pre-defined criteria several individual patient documents were selected for this study and analyzed historically. Most items of information concerning patient histories and diagnoses were obtained from the stock R 179 of the branch office of the federal archives in Berlin Lichterfelde. Further supplementary information was extracted from administrative documents and patient charts of the archives of the psychiatric department at the regional hospital Günzburg. RESULTS: The historical reconstruction of three individual life histories contributes to a literary memorial for the victims. CONCLUSIONS: It is a historical responsibility to remember the victims of the "Aktion T4" by contributing to a reconstruction of their life histories.