E318: The Children of Spiegelgrund

Fresh Hell Podcast

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True Crime, History

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Vienna, 1940. On the hills above the city stood a children’s psychiatric institution called Am Spiegelgrund. Officially it was a place for treatment, observation, and care. In reality though, it became part of the Nazi system that classified vulnerable children as “unfit,” subjected them to medical abuse, and in hundreds of cases sent them to their deaths. This episode focuses on the historical background: how a modern medical system was abused as mechanism for sorting, controlling, and ultimately killing the most vulnerable children in society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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