title: [Neuropathological research on organs of patients of the "Heil- und pflegeanstalt" (state hospital) Günzburg].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The two Kaiser Wilhelm-Institutes (KWI) in Berlin (1914, new building 1931) and in Munich (1917, new building 1926-28), specialized on pathologic anatomical as well as psychiatric genetic research, were set up before times of National Socialism.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data evaluation is based on patient documents and annual reports of the archive of today's district hospital Günzburg and on patient documents (copies) of the historical archive of today's Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The KWI in Munich was indirectly provided with brain material by Bavarian "Heil- und Pflegeanstalten" (state hospitals) including the state hospital Günzburg.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  During National Socialism patients' organs were sent from the "Heil- und Pflegeanstalt" (state hospital) Günzburg to the KWI in Munich for the purpose of conducting research. Commemorating patients' fates and clarifying what happened defines a place of remembrance.
authors: Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Theorie der Medizin, LMU München. Florian.Steger@med.uni-muenchen.de
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