Kaufbeuren Institution

The Kaufbeuren-Irsee sanatorium, which had been treating patients with physical and mental illness since 1876, became one of the institutions in the T-4 euthanasia program under its director, Dr. Valentin Faltlhauser. Patients destined for gassing at Grafeneck and Hartheim passed through Kaufbeuren, and in 1942 Faltlhauser began killing patients by lethal injection. He also devised a starvation diet which soon came into wider use at other institutions practicing euthanasia. Nuns/nurses inside the Kaufbeuren institution. They are shown entering the building and walking around, up and down the stairs. Religious iconography and statues are visible. Separate scenes of group of male and female patients at leisure inside a large room. Interior of rooms with rows of beds. The interior of one room that looks like a private bedroom for a female patient. The interiors look large and neatly kept. Women outside sewing. One woman holds a cat in her arms. Shots of the women looking into the camera. Men sitting outside on a bench, playing cards.