Carl Hans Heinze Sennhenn

Carl Hans Heinze Sennhenn, psychiatrist.

Hans Heinze was the director of the mental institution Heilanstalt Brandenburg-Goerden , where he supervised the murder by injection, starvation and poisoning of thousands of children whose brains he then supplied to Nazi "researchers." He also trained Nazi physicians for the T-4 Euthanasia Program.

Historian Dr. Klaus-Dieter Müller of the Saxony memorial sites archives in Dresden, Germany had requested Hans Heinze to be rehabilitated despite he murdered so many.

Hans Heinze was tried and found guiltry of war crimes and received only seven years. After his release from prison, he became chief physician for adolescent psychiatry at Wunstdorf State Hospital .

External References

• List of FBI Files on Nazi War Crimes page 2

See also

• Psychiatry
• Eugenics
• Euthanasia
• Nazi Germany
• T-4 Euthanasia Program