 Afterwards, it was used to house children and mothers with babies who had fled from Allied bombing.In Grafeneck Castle were killed during the Nazi Euthanasieaktion (later Action T4) 10,654 disabled and sick people through lethal injections and gas.The French occupying forces returned the site in 1946/47 to the Samaritan Foundation or , who re-established it as a centre for disabled and mentally ill people which still operates to this day.