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Until 1937 the hospital Obrawalde near the town of Meseritz belonged to the German state of Prussia, located in the border province of Posen/West Prussia.
The hospital at Obrawalde (now Obrzyce), usually referred to as Meseritz-Obrawalde, together with the institution at Tiegenhof (now Dziekanka) in the Wartheland, were probably the most notorious killing centres of "wild" euthanasia.
Mar 1, 2008 · Meseritz-Obrawalde was a site for 10,000 of these killings. Using documents from the trial of one of Obrawalde's physicians, Hilde Wernicke, the era of `wild euthanasia' is described and her rationale for participating in the killings is explored.
Mar 1, 2008 · Meseritz-Obrawalde: a 'wild euthanasia' hospital of Nazi Germany. Susan Benedict Medical University of South Carolina, 99 Jonathan Lucas Street, Charleston, SC 29401, USA.
Meseritz – Obrawalde Between September 1939, and August 1941, there was a program in Germany called T4. This was a program that legalized the murder of mentally and physically disabled people/patients and was in line with the Nazi racial ideology that only healthy people had the right to exist.
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Death through medication: Meseritz. The patients of the Meseritz-Obrawalde institution were deported and murdered up to 1942. After that, people with mental illness from the entire German Reich were taken to this institution. The staff murdered most of them shortly after their arrival.
