🪖 Grafeneck killing centre

The Grafeneck killing centre housed in Grafeneck Castle was one of Nazi Germany's extermination centres as part of their forced euthanasia programme, Action T4. Today, it is a memorial site dedicated to the victims of the state-authorised programme. At least 10,500 mentally and physically disabled people, predominantly from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, were killed there during 1940. It was one of the first places in Nazi Germany where people were killed in large numbers in a gas chamber using carbon monoxide. This was the beginning of the Nazi killing of the ill and disabled. Grafeneck was also the central office of the "Charitable Ambulance Transport GmbH" (Gekrat), which was headed by Reinhold Vorberg and responsible for the transport of T4.