Talk:Hadamar killing centre

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Better Documentation is Needed
This is very thinly documented. The only source listed is a single postwar German newspaper article, and that only sources part of what the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum posted here.

As far as I know the proposition that euthanasia continued secretly after Hitler publicly ordered it stopped in 1941 is just a matter of speculation.

I would also love to see some solid documentation that gassing was used in euthanasia. This rumor is widespread but as far as I know only lethal injection was used, and that is a more efficient method, and much more in line with what one would expect from physicians. Hadding (talk) 20:01, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

"You'll End Up in Hadamar"
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This is not correct: In the Hadamar school, students would often taunt each other by saying "You'll end up in the Hadamar ovens!"

The Hadamar Clinic works until today. So the people of Region saying "you will end in Hadamar".

Unannounced wholesale removal of text
... not a good idea. I have reverted the removals done by Hadding. Discussion about sourcing may now take place here on the Talk page. (Note: I don't log onto WP every day.)--Goodmorningworld (talk) 16:12, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * More: The "External links" section in the Article provides a cornucopia of well-documented fact published in reliable sources. Eventually, I expect that in-line references will be transferred from there to the Article, but there is no particular rush to do so. (This is not to preclude an insertion of in-line references from print sources, which would of course be welcome also.)--Goodmorningworld (talk) 15:28, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

New photos
I have added some new photos from the German Wikipedia article. 81.132.121.98 (talk) 10:55, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

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English name of the institution
The name of this gruesome institution is currently translated as "Hadamar Euthanasia Centre". However, the German name "Tötungsanstalt Hadamar" means "Hadamar Killing Centre" ("Tötung" means "killing", whereas "euthanasia" would be translated as "Gnadentod" or similar). Are there any other sources that support the use of "Euthanasia" or should the page be renamed? Postman Phat (talk) 07:17, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 11 October 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Not moved  (t &#183; c)  buidhe  04:55, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Hadamar Euthanasia Centre → Hadamar Killing Centre – Incorrect translation of the German name NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar. Tötung means killing, not euthanasia (see Tötung). Uncontested on the article’s talk page. Postman Phat (talk) 20:10, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:40, 11 October 2020 (UTC)


 * queried move request Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:41, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose Wikipedia doesn't determine its article titles by translation, so the provided rationale has no clear relationship to Wikipedia guidelines. The nominator has very little editing history, and thus may be inexperienced with Wikipedia practices. We should be looking for the common name in English-language reliable sources. —BarrelProof (talk) 00:12, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose at least this specific proposal. "Euthanasia" is the common term for these eugenics murders, and the euphemism also exists in German (Euthanasie). That said, further research may be required to find out whether a different title would be better. I've seen alternate names like "Hadamar extermination camp", "Hadamar Institute", "Hadamar euthanasia facility", etc. BegbertBiggs (talk) 22:45, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

"Euthanasia centre" > "killing facility" discussion
A discussion has arisen at Talk:Hartheim Euthanasia Centre seeking a consensus to rename each "euthanasia centre" to "killing facility", "killing centre", or something closer to the more common "Tötungsanstalt" in German. Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten uses "killing facility" on their English page here; other memorial sites prefer "killing centre". "Euthanasia" was a WP:EUPHEMISM specifically employed by the Nazis to justify and trivialize their mass-murder; it should not be adopted uncritically.

The goal of this post is to invite discussion on the Hartheim page; I hope to reach a consensus that would apply across all of the T4 site pages and for Category:Aktion T4 euthanasia centres.-Ich (talk) 15:53, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
 * As per the discussion at the linked talk page, consensus has been reached for "Killing Facility". Here is the official page of the memorial site, which itself uses the phrase "Hadamar killing centre". The talk page linked above also has extensive discussion about the suitability of the verb "murder". I will move this page now.-Ich (talk) 11:57, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I think editors here would have been better notified if this was marked as a suggested page move like normal. The thing is, a quick google search comes up with less than 200 hits for "Hadamar Killing Facility", but more for "Hadamar Euthanasia Centre". Neither seems to be widely used - is there are better name I'm missing, or is this mostly a forgotten part of history? - Bilby (talk) 15:37, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your response. Apologies for not using the suggested page move process, I was being bold following the consensus on the Hartheim talk page.
 * In German, the overwhelmingly preferred term is "Tötungsanstalt" (="killing institute") and most sources are in German. Anstalt is commonly translated as "institute" or "establishment"; in this context I would say both "centre" and "facility" are suitable translations. The government-run website for the memorial foundation has an English page (linked above) that uses "Killing Centre"; the USHMM is a reliable source and uses "killing facility" here.
 * Nazi Germany operated several killing facilities as part of Aktion T4, and the various English-language memorial sites (mostly run by the sites' respective state governments) use either "killing centre" or "killing facility". None use "Euthanasia Centre". In favor of consistency for all six articles, I suggested "facility" on the Hartheim talk page. Google searches for "hadamar killing center/centre" give a combined 1,200 results, which is somewhat less than "euthanasia centre" but not as dramatically so. None of these English terms stand out too much from another in terms of Google hits, but WP:GOOGLE has limits. I'm fine with "centre/center" in lieu of "facility", but "euthanasia" is not the appropriate term. Naming the page "Tötungsanstalt-Hadamar" would also be wrong (WP:UE). The memorial site itself presents the word "euthanasia" only with distancing quotation marks, such as "...being used as a killing centre in the context of the Nazi 'euthanasia' crimes" to emphasize the term was used as a euphemism. I hope this addresses your concerns.-Ich (talk) 16:08, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I'm still confused. You say that the USHMM uses "killing centre", but in checking the link you provided, it never refers to the Hadamar Killing Centre or Hadamar Killing Facility. It does describe it as "Hadamar euthanasia center", "Hadamar Euthanasia Killing Center", "Hadamar Institute", and simply Hadmar. I don't think that source really supports your argument. Do you have a better source than the USHMM? - Bilby (talk) 16:23, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I wasn't very clear. The USHMM refers to Hadamar as "one of six killing facilities" at the top of the page, which I meant as support for a suitable translation for "Tötungsanstalt". The variety of terminology they use also suggest to me that there isn't a single primary term in English. I have looked around and also found "killing site". I still think "Killing Facility" is the best translation, but as mentioned above "Killing Centre" is also supported.-Ich (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree that Tötungsanstalt means killing centre, but I'm not sure from the link you provided that this is also the name of the facility. The closest thing to a name at the USHMM was Hadamar Euthanasia Killing Center or the much simpler Hadamar Institute. - Bilby (talk) 17:30, 5 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I support this move for the same reasons presented at Talk:Hartheim Killing Facility. Tötungsanstalt = killing facility/center. We'd need an overwhelming reason to go against direct translation and I don't see that here. Comparing Google search hits is generally considered a flawed argument, unless the difference is enormous. Generalrelative (talk) 15:47, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

It is remarkable that a prior requested move was denied but that the move was now, without serious prior discussion, was moved anyway, based on a minimal discussion on a completely other article. To get things clear (and wider discussed) I have started a formal requested move: Talk:Hartheim Killing Facility. The Banner talk 17:23, 5 December 2022 (UTC)


 * See the result of that discussion, where the consensus was to move to Hartheim killing centre. I would favor a similar move here, to "Hadamar killing centre". All similar articles should follow a consistent pattern, per WP:CRITERIA #5. Generalrelative (talk) 23:23, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * At least it is now properly discussed. The Banner  talk 23:43, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagging @Bilby who was involved above. A consensus was reached on the talk page for Hartheim if you'd like to review the arguments there. Any objections to the name "Hadamar killing centre"?-Ich (talk) 16:14, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm still looking for a source using "Hadamar killing centre". You said above that the USHMM is the best source, but it doesn't use the term. If we were to rely on the USHMM, the correct name would probably be Hadamar (euthanasia killing facility). - Bilby (talk) 20:59, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response. I agree, as mentioned further up, USHMM uses a variety of terminology and I was citing their use of "killing facility" as the generic term for the T4 sites. The talk page on Hartheim settled on "killing centre" instead and I respect that consensus and want uniformity across the Tötungsanstalten articles. As linked above, Hadamar Memorial Museum, which operates on the site, uses "Hadamar killing centre" here on their English homepage and here in a page title. "Hadamar killing centre" (lower case) has the benefit of 1. the site's museum itself uses that translation and capitalization 2. it's in line with the consensus Hartheim article title (and regardless of the outcome, they should be in alignment) and 3. lower case gives the correct impression this was not an 'official' name used by the Nazis (it was, after all, a clandestine murder factory), but it is the common name used for the site.-Ich</b> (talk) 21:49, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Consistency is only good when it is accurate. The problem is that "Hadamar killing centre" reads to me as if the name is "Hadamar" and it was used as a killing centre, and that is supported by the facility being repeaedly refer to as "a killing centre" and just "Hadamar" on the site. "Hadamar Killing Centre" as a proper noun would be the title. Hence my leaning towards "Hadamar (euthanasia killing centre)" per USHMM or even, arguably, "Hadamar (killing centre)" per the sources you have provided. - Bilby (talk) 21:56, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * "Hadamar euthanasia killing centre" fails the same WP:COMMONNAME criteria that outlined on the Hartheim talk page while also being less concise. "Hadamar Killing Centre" was never its official name and capitalizing falsely gives that impression. Hadamar is the town where Landesheilsanstalt Hadamar ("Hadamar State Sanatorium") was located and whose buildings were used to murder people. The museum consistently refers to itself on its (pretty extensive) English-language web presence as "Hadamar Memorial Museum" with upper case (Gedenkstätte Hadamar), while pretty consistently using "Hadamar killing centre", lower case, to refer to the killing centre that occupied the former sanatorium's buildings. The site also uses the town's name as a metonym for the killing centre that was located there ("transport patients to Hadamar in 1941", "over 10,000 patients had been murdered in Hadamar.") although this too is strictly speaking correct, as the murders did indeed take place within the town limits.-<b style="background:#00ffff">Ich</b> (talk) 00:23, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * In regard to "Hadamar euthanasia killing centre", you earlier commented that USHMM was reliable, and that is the term it most consistently uses. If USHMM is not to be considered reliable then ok, although I am at a loss as to why it was reliable a week ago but isn't now. If, as you say,"Hadamar killing centre" was never the official name, and as there seems to be little consistency in non-official names, I'm still leaning towards Hadamar (killing centre) over Hadmara killing center, given that the latter was not the name of the facility, as Hadamar is the only name used consistently. It is frustrating, though, given that no source has be presented which consistently uses what I'm told it does. - Bilby (talk) 02:01, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * USHMM is a reliable source and, at the risk of repeating myself, I was citing that USHMM used "killing facility" as a translation for the word "Tötungsanstalt". Other editors at "Talk:Hartheim" found the translation "killing centre" better; it is supported by different reliable sources and fulfills the COMMONNAME critieria. I find this translation acceptable, even though "facility" was my preference. I still don't see a reason this page's name should deviate from the consensus established on "Talk:Hartheim", especially since this matches the use by Hadamar Memorial Museum. If you feel there is a point which was not raised but could have changed the "Hartheim" consensus, please raise another discussion there or initiate an RfC to seek broader input with the explicit goal of establishing a naming consensus for all six T4 facilities and the Category:Aktion_T4_euthanasia_centres. I would suggest "Should the articles for the six former Aktion T4 sites be named 'Hartheim killing centre', 'Hadamar killing centre', 'Brandenburg killing centre', 'Grafeneck killing centre', 'Bernburg killing centre', and 'Sonnenstein killing centre', or something else?"-<b style="background:#00ffff">Ich</b> (talk) 13:02, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't see value in consistency for the sake of consistency - if any of the facilities have a formal name, we should use that name, whether or not it matches the names used for other facilities. Similarly, I'm not really worried about the consensus formed without notifying editors here - there was a discussion here, which came to a different consensus, so a decision made overriding that consensus without notifying people here doesn't seem to mean much. The question at the moment only concerns this article.
 * Towards which, the only consistent name I can find for this facility is "Hadamar". I'm hoping to better understand why that is the case, so I'll do some reading to see if something can help clarify things for me. - Bilby (talk) 06:31, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * You don't see value in consistency for the sake of consistency? WP:CRITERIA is policy, and consistency is one of its five items. Consistency on its own doesn't trump the other four criteria, but declaring that you don't "see value" in it is entirely beside the point. The Wikipedia community does. Generalrelative (talk) 06:51, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I have seen that before, yes. The issue is simply - if there is a proper name for this facility, using the correct name should be the first choice. Making it consistent with other names, just so that it is consistent, shouldn't be the goal. I'd like to understand what the correct name is. If it is the case that there is no correct name, which may well be the case, then certainly other criteria become important - and consistency is one of them. - Bilby (talk) 07:00, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Could you clarify what you mean by "correct" and "proper"? As per WP:TITLE, the lemma does not always match the "formal" or "official" name. WP:OFFICIALNAMES starts with "People often assume that, where an official name exists for the subject of a Wikipedia article, that name is ipso facto the correct title for the article, and that if the article is under another title, then it should be moved. In many cases, this is contrary to Wikipedia practice and policy."
 * The Hessian government, which operates the museum, refers to it as "Tötungsanstalt Hadamar" ("Hadamar killing centre"), a post-war coinage used elsewhere without controversy by German sources. (WP:UE directs us not to use the foreign-language title unless it predominates in English sources.) The site was never formally named "Tötungsanstalt Hadamar" because it was a clandestine murder factory, run by doctors who used fake names.
 * I and other editors have pointed to "... killing centre" being used in reliable sources for Hartheim and Hadamar, and this name fulfills the other criteria of WP:COMMONNAME for concision, naturalness, precision, etc. better than the current "... Euthanasia Centre". (Generalrelative outlined this very clearly on Talk:Hartheim, which I linked to above).
 * This article is not about the buildings per se, or their pre- or post-war use; it is about the site's use to murder people during Aktion T4. To examine some formal names for completeness' sake, the Hadamar Memorial Museum has a detailed history section on their site (in English):
 * From 1883-1906, the site was Korrigenden-Anstalt zu Hadamar ("Correctional Institute of Hadamar").
 * From 1906-1933, the site was Landes-Pflegeanstalt für Geisteskranke ("State Care Home for the Mentally Ill").
 * Under Nazi rule (the site is not clear on the date), the site was named Landesheilanstalt Hadamar ("Hadamar State Sanatorium").
 * Since 1945, the site continues to be used in a medical context. Today, it houses the Vitos Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Hadamar ("Vitos Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Hadamar"); the Hadamar Memorial Museum occupies a portion of the site. ("Vitos gGmbH" is a state-run chain of about 60 clinics.) The museum is operated by the "Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen ("Public Welfare Association of the German Federal State of Hesse"), which also is the sole owner of "Vitos".
 * The present-day clinic and the Hadamar Memorial Museum share the street address "Mönchberg 8, 65589 Hadamar".
 * Finally, even if the site had formally been named "Hadamar Euthanasia Centre" (it never was), that still shouldn't be the article's title. WP:OFFICIALNAMES cautions "Some official names are inaccurate and deceptive for propaganda purposes", which is a correct application of WP:EUPHEMISM.-<b style="background:#00ffff">Ich</b> (talk) 11:25, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and that's all good and fine, but as mentioned, I'm going to do a bit of background reading so that I better understand the issues. I have already been through the material you provided. - Bilby (talk) 11:29, 15 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I came to this page to redirect it following the RM at Talk:Hartheim_killing_centre; I see that there's an ongoing discussion. My input: English-language sources commonly refer to the Hadamar site as Hadamar killing center / Hadamar killing centre, as shown by the google books links. "Killing centre" is the umbrella terminology for the T4 facilities and the extermination camps; pls see Killing centers: an overview from the USHMM. -- K.e.coffman (talk) 04:44, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
 * This is my understanding as well. I'm having a hard time understanding the resistance here. Generalrelative (talk) 05:50, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The problem goes back a bit, I'm afraid. Some time ago we went through a fairly nasty process on multiple articles about Acton T4 and euthanasia. Part of the eventual consensus was the Hadamar Euthanasia Centre. So when it was moved, without any discussion here, going against what was a very difficult consensus, it seemed important to look into it properly. When I then looked up one of the major sources that was claimed to support the move, and found that it didn't, it made things more difficult. There is probably a decent enough case for moving it, and while I'm not seeing an incredibly strong argument for the move it may well be ok (consensus can change, after all), but I feel that out of respect for the mess we went through before I need to take things carefully. It isn't lack of respect for the current editors, but I just want to take into consideration the original consensus, and see where I sit now. - Bilby (talk) 06:47, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * That makes sense. Thanks for explaining. Generalrelative (talk) 15:34, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Article move
I moved the article to "Hadamar killing centre" per consensus in the above discussion as well as the RM for a related article: Talk:Hartheim Killing Facility. --K.e.coffman (talk) 03:49, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I was hoping you would at least wait until I'd finished reading up on this. I'm disappointed that you couldn't be bothered. - Bilby (talk) 05:15, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, I was under the assumption that the discussion had run its course, and that you were no longer objecting to a redirect. My apologies! --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:42, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

"House of Shutters"
The name for the site "House of Shutters" was added in this diff (July 2019). I haven't seen the documentary that is cited, but I can't find any other good reliable sources using the term. Googling finds a few examples that I think are citogenesis. I haven't seen the term used elsewhere in my reading. There is nothing similar on the German wiki, and I can't find the exact German translation this was based on, but googling for "hadamar jalousien", "hadamar rolläden" etc. only finds me listings for window and shutter companies. Even assuming the documentary does use this name, I'm still not sure it's notable enough for inclusion in the lead, given its absence in other sources I've reviewed.-<b style="background:#00ffff">Ich</b> (talk) 12:44, 20 December 2022 (UTC)