Bus garage (Хадамар)

Germany / Hessen / Elz / Хадамар
 memorial, museum, Second World War 1939-1945, garage, bus station
Large grey buses, carrying victims from nearby mental homes (the Zwischenanstalten / intermediate mental homes Herborn, Weilmünster, Kiedrich, Idstein, Nassau, Langenfeld, Andernach, Wiesloch, Weinsberg) to Hadamar, arrived daily.
From the bus garage the victims had to go through the so called "sluice" (a narrow fenced-in path) to the extermination building. The Hadamar "sluice" became model for the "sluices" or "tubes", later used in the extermination camps of Aktion Reinhard. Approximately 100 victims were killed every day, lasting until August 1941.

www.deathcamps.org/euthanasia/hadamar.html
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Coordinates:   50°27'1"N   8°2'34"E
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