# Opfer Aktion T4

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Opfer Aktion T4 is a memorial spot in Germany, dedicated to people murdered under the Nazi regime. Its quiet form gives the victims a visible place. During the Second World War, the state-organised Aktion T4 campaign killed more than two hundred thousand people with disabilities or mental illnesses. Many victims were taken from care homes and hospitals, then murdered with gas, drugs, or starvation. At least eighty-two victims came from Trier, including men and women whose illnesses or impairments became the reason for their persecution. Students sometimes read the recovered names aloud together.

At Kloster Ebernach, wooden plaques with crowns bear the words dignity inviolable for individual victims. The crowns mark each remembered life as singular. Some personal histories remain lost or incomplete, while recovered names return through ceremonies and student readings. The memorial connects a national crime with local care facilities and at least eighty-two people from Trier. Those names give the quiet marker its clearest human detail.

- City: [Trier](https://mytuur.com/en/city/trier/)

## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Opfer_Aktion_T4_69ee86c994fd00a8e145384a_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gedenktafel_T4_Aktion_am_Brüderkrankenhaus.jpg)

Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Trier. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.

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