Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre

Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre
NS-Tötungsanstalt Grafeneck
Near Grafeneck in Germany
Grafeneck Castle
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Coordinates	48°23′33″N 9°25′45″E / 48.39250°N 9.42917°E / 48.39250; 9.42917
Site information
Open to the public	Yes
Website	gedenkstaette-grafeneck.de
Site history
Built	1560 (1560)
Garrison information
Occupants	Samaritan Foundation

The Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre (German: NS-Tötungsanstalt Grafeneck) housed in Grafeneck Castle was one of Nazi Germany's killing centres as part of their forced euthanasia programme. Today, it is a memorial site dedicated to the victims of the state-authorised programme also referred to since as Action T4. At least 10,500 mentally and physically disabled people, predominantly from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, were systematically killed during 1940. It was one of the first places in Nazi Germany where people were killed in large numbers in a gas chamber using carbon monoxide. This was the beginning of the Euthanasia Programme. Grafeneck was also the central office of the "Charitable Ambulance Transport GmbH" (Gekrat),^[1] which was headed by Reinhold Vorberg [Wikidata] and responsible for the transport of T4.