Margarete Hielscher

Margarete Hielscher (September 12, 1899 in Arnsdorf - April 13, 1985 in Stadtroda) was a German doctor, who was involved in Nazi crimes in the context of "child euthanasia". Margarete Hielscher propagated in 1930 a segregation of mentally handicapped people whom she described as "hereditary inferiority".[1] During the Second World War, she led under the hospital clinic director Gerhard Kloos - euphemistically called - "Children's Department" at the Thuringia State Hospitals Stadtroda, which was affiliated to the youth psychiatric department; the children admitted there, at least 72 died through food deprivation or lethal injection. [2]

References
  1. Jürgen, Peter. Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozess. 3., überarbeitete Auflage. LIT Verlag Münster, 1994. p. 31.
  2. Zitiert bei: Henry Leide: NS-Verbrecher und Staatssicherheit – Die geheime Vergangenheitspolitik der DDR, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-35018-X


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