{"id":1756,"date":"2024-11-03T17:38:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:42:07","slug":"memorial-for-the-victims-of-spiegelgrund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/blog\/2024\/11\/03\/memorial-for-the-victims-of-spiegelgrund\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial for the victims of Spiegelgrund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Spiegelgrund-k-100-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1757\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cMemorial for the Victims of Spiegelgrund\u201d on the Otto Wagner site in the 14th district commemorates the children and young people who were systematically tortured and murdered there during the National Socialist era with 772 light steles. The criminal doctors working there killed sick, disabled or, from their point of view, \u201cuneducable\u201d people as part of the so-called \u201cAktion T4\u201d in the light of the National Socialist racial mania after categorizing them as \u201cunfit for education\u201d and \u201ccausing permanent costs\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transports from children&#8217;s homes and specially organized \u201cselection trips\u201d were used to send people to the \u201ceuthanasia institution\u201d, which was trivialized after the war, usually without justification and without informing the parents. The agonizing deaths were carried out through malnutrition and hypothermia, usually followed by an overdose of sleeping pills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the background you can also see the Am Steinhof Theater in the Baroque Art Nouveau style by Franz Berger, which is due to reopen soon after extensive renovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cMemorial for the Victims of Spiegelgrund\u201d on the Otto Wagner site in the 14th district commemorates the children and young people who were systematically tortured and murdered there during the National Socialist era with 772 light steles. The criminal doctors working there killed sick, disabled or, from their point of view, \u201cuneducable\u201d people as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-1140wien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}