{"id":10207,"date":"2011-01-04T16:54:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T13:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=10207"},"modified":"2011-01-04T16:54:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T13:54:59","slug":"nazi-era-graves-uncovered-in-austria-04012011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/nazi-era-graves-uncovered-in-austria-04012011\/","title":{"rendered":"Nazi-era graves uncovered in Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/psychiatric-hospital.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10208\" title=\"psychiatric hospital\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/psychiatric-hospital-280x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/psychiatric-hospital-280x157.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/psychiatric-hospital.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Graves containing the remains of 220 people and dating back to the Nazi era have been found at a psychiatric hospital in western Austria.<\/p>\n<p>The remains were discovered when a yard belonging to the hospital in Hall in Tyrol province was dug up as part of a construction project.<\/p>\n<p>Building work has now stopped until a investigation is carried out.<\/p>\n<p>It is feared those buried may have been disabled people murdered under the Nazis&#8217; euthanasia programme.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people with physical or mental disabilities were killed by the Nazis, who regarded them as unfit to live.<\/p>\n<p>Some 30,000 were killed at one psychiatric hospital alone &#8211; Schloss Hartheim, near Linz in upper Austria.<\/p>\n<p>Tilak, the company responsible for the Hall hospital, said the graves contained the remains of people buried between 1942 and 1945.<\/p>\n<p>There were, it added, &#8220;suspicions that the dead [were] at least partially victims&#8221; of the Nazis&#8217; euthanasia programme.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman, Johannes Schwamberger, said work on the construction project had been stopped to allow an investigation and to identify the dead.<\/p>\n<p>Hall Hospital remains a functioning psychiatric hospital, with beds for 500 patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graves containing the remains of 220 people and dating back to the Nazi era have been found at a psychiatric hospital in western Austria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,17,37],"tags":[13970,13975,13974,13973,10308,13972,13971],"class_list":["post-10207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-europe","category-middle-east","tag-ausria","tag-euthanasia","tag-hall-hospital","tag-linz","tag-nazi","tag-schloss-hartheim","tag-tyrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}