A collection of brain sections of "Euthanasia" victims: The series H of Julius 
Hallervordden

Wässle, H.

doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2017.06.001

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A collection of brain sections of "Euthanasia" victims: The series H of Julius Hallervordden

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Wässle, H.
Neuroanatomy Department, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Max Planck Society;

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Wässle, H. (2017). A collection of brain sections of "Euthanasia" victims: The series H of Julius Hallervordden. Endeavour, 41(4), 166-175. doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2017.06.001.

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Julius Hallervorden, a distinguished German neurophathologist, admitted on several occasions that he had recieved some five thousand brains of "euthanasia" victims from the Nazi killing centres for the insane. He investigated the brains in the summer of 1942; however, their traces were subsquently lost. The present study shows, that the Series H, which was part of the Hallervorden collection of brain sections in the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, comprises the brain sections of the above mentioned five hundred euthanasia victims. The provenance of 105 patients could be reconstructed and 84 are for sure euthanasia victims. Most of them were killed in Bernburg or in Sonnenstein-Pirna. Hallervorden used the brain sections of Series H until 1956 for his studies and never publicly regretted this abuse of the brains of euthanasia victims.