Hôpitaux de Hohenlychen


The Hospitals or Hohenlychen Hospital (in German: Heilanstalten Hohenlychen = Hohenlychen Health Centers) was a complex of care centers near Lychen in the present state of Brandenburg, Germany, which existed from 1902 to 1945. It was during the Third Reich under the control of the Schutzstaffel (the SS). It passed after 1945 under the control of the Soviet occupation zone. Sanatorium de Hohenlychen

The doctor Karl Gebhardt officiated there from the 1930s as chief medical officer of the sanatorium for patients with tuberculosis. He then founded an orthopedic clinic. Gebhardt was subsequently sentenced to death on 21 August 1947 for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Medical Trials, notably for his medical experiments on prisoners in Ravensbrück.

The minister of the Vichy regime, Jean Bichelonne died there in December 1944.



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