Margarete Hielscher
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Nazi doctor
Margarete Hielscher (September 12, 1899 in Arnsdorf – April 13, 1985 in Stadtroda) was a German doctor, who was involved in Nazi crimes in the context of "child euthanasia". Margarete Hielscher propagated in 1930 a segregation of mentally handicapped people whom she described as possessing "hereditary inferiority".[1] During the Second World War, she led under the hospital clinic director Gerhard Kloos – euphemistically called – "Children's Department" at Thuringia State Hospitals Stadtroda, which was affiliated to the youth psychiatric department; the children admitted there, at least 72 died through food deprivation or lethal injection. [2]
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