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The History of Adelheid Block
Adelheid was born to a prominent Jewish family in late Constance. As a small child, she had what's sometimes called encephalitis and it brain damaged her quite severely. She went as a teenager into an asylum. And then in 1939, something horrible happened in Germany. The Nazis come in and all the asylums, the hospitals, the nursing homes are taken over. They sterilise people. Then they move into a phase which was called T4 after the address it was in in Tia Garten in Berlin. That was the where they headquarters were. This was basically the precursor of the Holocaust. It was the slaughtering, the systematic slaughtering of people who's
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