Hair - The victims of the Nazi murders should be visible with their names and biographies.
The clinic will set up memorial sites in the coming years.
In the years to come, a variety of memorial sites on the history of psychiatric work in Eglfing-Haar will be built on the premises of the kbo-Klinikum.
Yesterday the project became visible for the first time in public space: The clinic put up a building board in front of the administration building at Vockestrasse 72.
Calling victims by name, but also perpetrators
It lists 3570 names of patients who died in hair from starvation, neglect or medication, or who were deported from here to be killed.
Further names are still being researched.
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Names of the victims: The construction site board lists 3570 names of murdered patients.
Susanne Asenkerschbaumer and Winfried Helm have developed a concept for the culture of remembrance.
© kbo-Isar-Amper-Klinikum
The former director's seat in the administration building, in front of which the outdoor celebration took place, was one of the perpetrators' locations.
It is planned to use a multimedia timeline in the foyer to reveal the history of the clinic.
Memorials are also being planned for the two hunger houses and in the “children's department”.
The aim for the coming years is to create a multimedia culture of remembrance, as we are used to from today's everyday culture.
Health Minister: "Put people first"
"We want to give the people, the victims, a face", said Bavaria's Minister of Health Klaus Holetschek (CSU), it was about "creating awareness and putting people at the center." He thanked the medical director of the clinic, Professor Peter Brieger that the clinic has accepted responsibility.
"In these times when the exclusion of minorities is becoming acceptable again, it is important to take a clear position: Human dignity is inviolable," emphasized Peter Brieger.
Around 4,000 people were murdered directly or indirectly
During the National Socialist era, Brieger's predecessor Hermann Pfannmüller murdered around 4,000 patients, either directly or indirectly.
Theodolinde Diem, who was born in Munich in 1908, was also transported from Haar to the killing center in Hartheim, Austria, where she was killed by gas at the age of 32 in 1941.
Her niece Lisa Wanninger, who was among the speakers yesterday, has persistently researched the truth about her aunt Thea's life.
She told of their fate in moving words.
"We as the Upper Bavarian District and as the Clinic will continue to work through the crimes that have occurred in the coming years, we will name the perpetrators and victims, and we will point out the places where the crime was committed," promised District Assembly President Josef Mederer.
Remembering gives back dignity
Klaus Rückert, pastor and long-time hospital chaplain, reported that 36 years ago there was still resistance in the Haar municipal council when he applied in 1985 to put a plaque on the local war memorial to commemorate the victims of euthanasia in addition to the fallen soldiers.
With today's willingness to inform and remember, the murdered sick are granted their dignity: "We need to remember the victims of euthanasia, the sick and disabled, whose dignity was not only touched but destroyed - because they were different", warned Rückert.
A team from the Small Theater in Haar, which is located on the clinic premises, filmed the event and broadcast the speeches on the Internet.