Charité Psychiatric Clinic

This pyschiatric clinic is part of the Charité hospital, which was originally founded as a plague house in the early 18th century. It developed into a university hospital of great international repute. The psychiatric ward was run from 1938 to 1945 by Nazi psychiatrist SS-Hauptsturnführer Max de Crinis. He was a strong advocate of the murder of psychiatric patients and, as an advisor to the 'euthanasia' programme T4, was complicit in the murder of tens of thousands of mentally and physically disabled people. The building commemorates several staff members who became victims of persecution during the Nazi period by way of large portrait photographs.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman