Action 14f13

Aktion 14f13
A so-called "charitable ambulance" Gekrat bus
Also known asSonderbehandlung 14f13
Aktion 14f13
LocationHartheim, Bernburg and Sonnenstein Killing Facilities
Date1941–1944
Incident typeDeportations to extermination camps
PerpetratorsHeinrich Himmler, Philipp Bouhler, Viktor Brack, Werner Heyde, Horst Schumann, Richard Glücks, Arthur Liebehenschel
ParticipantsNazi Germany
OrganizationsConcentration Camps Inspectorate, SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (Amt D), Gemeinnützige Krankentransport GmbH, Deutsche Reichsbahn
CampAuschwitz, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen, Gusen, Flossenbürg, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, Groß-Rosen and Dachau
Victims15,000–20,000
MemorialsDas Denkmal der grauen Busse Traveling monument of the grey Gekrat buses

Action 14f13, also called Sonderbehandlung (special treatment) 14f13 and Aktion 14f13, was a campaign by Nazi Germany to murder Nazi concentration camp prisoners. As part of the campaign, also called invalid or prisoner euthanasia, the sick, the elderly and those prisoners who were no longer deemed fit for work were separated from the rest of the prisoners during a selection process, after which they were murdered.[1] The Nazi campaign was in operation from 1941 to 1944 and later covered other groups of concentration camp prisoners.[2]

  1. ^ Evans, Suzanne E. (2004-01-01). Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 9781566635653.
  2. ^ Wachsmann, Nikolaus (2015-04-14). KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9781429943727.