Vienna - The brains of about 300 children who were killed during Nazi euthanasia programmes in Vienna will be released from an Austrian hospital and buried at a memorial site, a state court official said on Friday.
The brains are key evidence in the case against Nazi doctor Heinrich Gross, now 85, who has been accused of complicity in the murders of nine handicapped children in 1944.
More than 700 died at the Spiegelgrund clinic during medical experiments, performed after Austria's annexation to the Third Reich in 1938. The deaths at the clinic occurred mostly as a result of induced respiratory illnesses which doctors then neglected to treat.
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The brains have been preserved over the decades since in formaldehyde. Gross was placed in charge of the clinic during the chief doctor's holidays. His trial was adjourned last year after a judge ruled he was mentally unfit to stand trial on the basis of two psychiatric reports.
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But a third investigation into Gross's mental state was called for, and a report should be available next month. - Sapa-AFP
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