Hitler's mentally ill relative murdered by Nazi regime
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:29 pm
The Holocaust unleashed by Adolf Hitler touched his own family, it emerged yesterday, as evidence was uncovered that one of the Nazi leader's relatives was
murdered by the German state.
The woman, identified only as Aloisia V, was the great-grandchild of the sister of Hitler's paternal grandmother.
She became one of thosands of mentally ill people who were exterminated as part of a systematic campaign to eliminate or sterilise those deemed socially undesirable.
Aged 49 years at her death, Aloisia, who is thought to have suffered from schizophrenia, was gassed to death at Hartheim Castle near the northern Austrain city of Linz on December 6th, 1940.
Hartheim Castle was a training ground for the SS killers who later murdered people in their tens of thousands at extermination camps of Auschwitz and Treblinka in Poland.
Doctors killed thousands with letal injections and in primitive coal-gas chambers after Hitler decreed the mentally disabled to ''unworthy of life''.
murdered by the German state.
The woman, identified only as Aloisia V, was the great-grandchild of the sister of Hitler's paternal grandmother.
She became one of thosands of mentally ill people who were exterminated as part of a systematic campaign to eliminate or sterilise those deemed socially undesirable.
Aged 49 years at her death, Aloisia, who is thought to have suffered from schizophrenia, was gassed to death at Hartheim Castle near the northern Austrain city of Linz on December 6th, 1940.
Hartheim Castle was a training ground for the SS killers who later murdered people in their tens of thousands at extermination camps of Auschwitz and Treblinka in Poland.
Doctors killed thousands with letal injections and in primitive coal-gas chambers after Hitler decreed the mentally disabled to ''unworthy of life''.