Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Deadly Medicine: Irmgard Huber

In the small German town of Hadamar there was a psychiatric hospital that was rumored to have murdered several mentally ill patients.  There were six of these facilities who killed around 200,000 German patients. The crimes committed were not classified as war crimes just as murders. Hospital records showed that 476 people from Allied nations were killed in the hospital.Irmgard Huber was o the head nurse at the time and denied that she and her staff had killed patients voluntarily. It was later ruled the Huber had played significant parts in faking death certificates and selecting patients to recieve overdoses of medication. She and six others were arrested and given 25 years in jail. She was later tried in the Hadamar trial in 1947 with 25 other people. She was given another eight years in prison for carrying out 120 patient murders. She was released from prison in 1952 under amnesties from American authorities.



Photo:  "Deadly Medicine: Irmgard Huber." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013. <http://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/photo/wlc/image/05/05472.jpg>.

 Article: "Holocaust History." Deadly Medicine: Irmgard Huber. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2013. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007146>.

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6 comments:

  1. Venus_SageJanuary 16, 2013 at 6:27 PM

    That is sad that these people were killed for being mentality ill. These women are very lucky that they were only put in prison, for killing innoncent people and medical fraud

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  2. bri14January 16, 2013 at 7:03 PM

    That's horrible that they would kill someone just because of the way they were born, and it's also outrageous how they just killed their patients for no reason.

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  3. UnknownJanuary 17, 2013 at 9:36 AM

    She should have got more than 25yrs.

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  4. UnknownJanuary 17, 2013 at 9:43 AM

    This makes you realize how messed up this world is.

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  5. UnknownJanuary 17, 2013 at 9:45 AM

    Its not there fault they was mentality ill!!

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  6. UnknownJanuary 17, 2013 at 10:17 AM

    That is messed up and they should be charged for it.

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