Friday, January 14, 2011

Suspected victims of Nazi euthanasia found in Austria

Suspected victims of Nazi euthanasia found in Austria - Europe, World - The Independent: Austria announced plans to exhume graves containing the remains of 220 suspected victims of Nazi Germany's infamous euthanasia programme yesterday after building workers unearthed a mass of human bones in the grounds of a psychiatric hospital. The discovery of what are thought to be some of the last hidden graves containing the remains of the tens of thousands of mentally and physically disabled people murdered by the Nazis, was made by workers digging up a yard in the grounds of a hospital in Hall, in the Austrian Tyrol. Officials were shocked by the discovery.

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