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dark building of Janusz Korczak School

The murdered children of Bullenhuserdamm

On 20 April came the order from Berlin: ! Cancel experiments execute children " exactly on this day, Adolf Hitler celebrated his 56th and last birthday.

Hamburg was the year 1945, while Dr. Kurt Heissmeyer in the Hanseatic city with human experiments, employed a bit talented physician whose obsessive and absurd idea it was to fight with a second Tuberculoseherd vaccination, the disease of fatal tuberculosis. Already he saw himself as a professor and another Robert Koch, as he entered for tests "to inferior materials" and this was supported by the highest authorities of the German Empire.

Under "inferior materials" was understood at times dictatorial nationalist non-Aryans such as Roma and Sinti, Christianity religion distant relatives such as Jews, as well as dissidents such as communists, Marxists, individuals and resistance fighters and slave laborers and hostages. The range of the so-called "low-grade material," which begat in his sole name even from the deepest contempt for humanity, shows us that, in principle arbitrary and virtually everything as "inferior" could be considered, which is not in the idea and system of the German Nazi Empire fit.

plaque on the facade right

Having been many previous experiments on adult human subjects of this criminal doctor so far failed, as all these people after serious illness died in hot Meyer took on 29 November 1944 over 20 children from the concentration camp Auschwitz. In this way, the children Mania Altman (5), Lelka Birnbaum (12), Sergio Desimone (7), Surcis Goldinger (11), Rivka Herszberg (7), Edo (12) and Lexje (8) Hornemann, Marek James (6), W. Jung Lieb (12), Lea Kligerman (8), George Andre Kohn (12), Bluma Mekler (11), Jacqueline Morgan (12), the rich tree (10), Sergio de Simone (7), Marek Steinbaum (10), H. Wassermann (8), Roman and Eleonora Witonski (5), Roman Zeller (12), Ruchla Zylberberg (10) to Hamburg Neuengamme transferred, which is "Dr. Served death "are also a few days after their arrival in Hamburg.

plaque on the exterior left

Heissmeyer had scratched the skin of children, then this Make rub with tubercle bacilli, resulting in about three days to a dangerous fever, and all the children at Christmas time had to be terminally ill. The cruel torture but found so far from being a end, they operated on the doctor of their axillary armpit out to see what would happen to this during a tuberculosis infection. As calculated on the last birthday of the leader of Berlin, the command for execution of these children were maltreated, were all children of concentration camp Neuengamme picked up and taken to school on Bullenhuserdamm. In this school it was but in the meantime also a concentration camp under the supervision of the SS-Obersturmfuhrer Arnold Strippel, which was destroyed by air raids in 1943 and partly in since then to about 600 prisoners were housed. By eliminating or deportation of prisoners to school but was now completely emptied for storage, so that was enough space for the unobserved children
created.

Today is the memorial to "Kita Sonnenschein collected

Alfred Trzebinski, there term medical officer described in the documentation" process Neuengamme, fearful of what as the SS corporals and deputy camp commandant Johann Frahm killed all these wards.

Frahm started with a sleeping, twelve year old boy, which was previously injected morphine and carried him into an adjoining room.

He put his head in a noose that was attached to a hook on the ceiling and then hung his own body weight to the small body, to the noose drew upon. All children were killed separately in the same way. The bodies of the children were never found, because they had been burned apparently Neuengammer crematorium.

Am In carved stone plaque behind the main entrance

18th March 1946, condemned the parties Frahm, Trzebinski, guards Adolf bacon and Sergeant William Three Men in a process that took place at the Hamburg Rothenbaumchaussee in Curiohaus to death by hanging. The judge's decision was on 08 October 1946 umgesetzt.Obersturmbannführer Strippel Arnold, who is actually the highest-ranking criminal in this series, was pardoned in spite of a conviction of 21-times life imprisonment for murder community very early and was also still a very high bond compensation. In 1987, a final Proceedings against him once and for alleged unfitness.

A sign that only strikes the pedestrians near the school.

"Dr. Death "Kurt Meyer hot operation later in Magdeburg virtually undetected private lung clinic. Finally, but the man was sentenced in 1963 to life imprisonment. Just one year later, he died in a prison Bautzen Herzinfarkt.Am 20th April 2010 marks the execution command that was sent from Berlin to Hamburg, 65th Time during at the same time in Germany today are people again, the 121st that day Hitler Birthday. The Hanseatic city of Hamburg has an unusually long time to deal adequately with that crime, because one initially thought to repress this madness by the silence on these facts to be able to. In the former school building at Bullenhuserdamm therefore first drew a Seewetterwartenbibliothek before it was again declared a school. Teachers, parents and authorities were marked by ignorance, how could it not imagine worse. Only a full 18 years after the perverted child murder was finally in the stairwell of the renamed "Janusz Korczak School School a plaque attached.

rear courtyard entrance Memorial Bullenhuserdamm in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort

The author Günther Schwarberg wrote 1988 his book "The SS doctor and the children of Bullenhuserdamm ( ISBN 3-88243-095-8 ). He managed it, to publish the most comprehensive account of this criminal history's drama, which went far beyond his actual journalistic work out. His painstaking search for clues is to thank that dieserlei atrocities never be forgotten and that the City of Hamburg at length came to the long-awaited tight spot. Günther Schwarberg died at 03 December 2008 in the age of 82 in Hamburg.

Rear schoolyard

Today, 2010, are the former concentration camp in Hamburg Neuengamme and Bullenhuserdamm official memorial to the events of a time that we show to What monstrous perversions of the human being is capable. It is gratifying to know that man is indeed capable of learning, but also terrifying, emotional chasms that some people often their ability to learn dominate.

monument in front of the Rose Garden of there also murdered Soviet citizens

When I wanted to see today's memorial at Bullenhuserdamm 92 in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort to you, dear reader to also give a visual impression of this property, I did me quite difficult to find due to lack of signs of the old school. After time-consuming search, I finally found it in the middle of a rather ugly industrial area as a contemporary witness of a cruel past. Significantly, the building now houses a day care center and a Operation for physiotherapy. For taste or flavor aberrations can be disputed is well known. In addition to various memorial plaques found on the back of the old school, a special entrance for visitors to this memorial, which apply only Sunday between 10 and 17 clock inlet. Moreover, behind the school building a small rose garden was created to designate the local memorials to slain children. Besides indescribable bewilderment came over me a deep sadness that we can not put into words.

In this form the plaques with the names of the children were hanged in the rose garden Placed.

yet well I remember even in my school days in which we have neither in history nor in the German lessons ever hear about any atrocities or crimes of the Third Reich. Here more of the "Battle for Rome" was one of which also perverse military details, first much longer lay back in time and by the almost wild acting, the then 70-year-old teacher with all the fervor and always clear my classmates and me in a Rudolf Steiner School were presented.

Also this sign is only visible to pedestrians

If we have at this time ever heard of various crimes of the Hitler regime, we have identified but not with the crimes of our fathers and grandfathers. Why, it was generally the opinion that we should have to be completely innocent bystanders of a new generation something to blame. Everything was democratic. Nazis, there were no more. All was peace, joy and pancakes supposedly. At least since 1990, while the GDR joined the Federal Republic of Germany, colloquially often referred to as "reunification" of Germany, made so many Democrat among us, the discovery that it was possibly come to a kind of reincarnation of political extremists.

affect Today's cellar, as it never was something cruel to happen.

was first here, I realize how important it is to preserve memories such as the Massacre of Bullenhuserdamm upright to perhaps make an important contribution can to keep future damage and future suffering of Germany, just too if we do not take themselves to blame.

front view of the former school building

And already I see some comments on this article, the contents of it will be, the German crimes by matching them with the crimes and atrocities of other countries and cultures relativize or even apologize. But this can not be accepted, because ultimately remains an every crime is a crime, is quite the same, held by whom and at what place there. All would be desirable if the final inspection and learning from history, so that the past is the present.

Julien Germain

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(Original publication: April 20, 2010)