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FTP Archive File: places/austria/vienna/steinhof/eugenics-and-
dr_gross  Archive/File: places/austria/vienna/steinhof/eugenics-
and-dr_gross Last-Modified: 1997/12/07  Source:  (c) The Globe
and Mail,  Saturday, December 6, 1997 (D1, D4)
[Page D1] By Jonathan Silvers and Tom Hagler, The Sunday Times,
Vienna                    The children's executioner  In Nazi
Austria, parents were encouraged to leave their         disabled
children in the care of people like   Dr. Heinrich Gross. If the
youngsters had been born with            defects, wet their
beds, or were deemed unsociable, the neurobiologist killed them
and removed their               brains for examination. Not only
was he never punished for the deaths, he was given Austria's
highest medical award.   There are 417 brains here, deep in an
underground vault of the Steinhof psychiatric hospital in
Vienna. All were removed from