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The Tiegenhof/Gnesen institution as a destination for deportation transport has
developed into a killing centre under the direction of Dr. Victor Ratka since
1939:
• From the end of 1939 to the beginning of 1945 - in a good 5.5 years -
almost 3,600 people were killed in "Tiegenhof/Dziekanka" according to
publications of the current clinic management - i.e. about 700 people per
year –
• that is an average of almost 2 deaths per day in an institution with an
occupancy rate of just over 1,000 patients from about 1943...
• this corresponded to an average mortality rate of at least 70 % per year.
• Especially in "Dziekanka" before the Nazi era, "normal" was a mortality rate
of only 1 to 2 % per year.
• From the end of 1939 to 1941, more than 1,000 Polish inmates were initially
murdered in Dziekanka - partly in converted small trucks as gas wagons in
which the exhaust gases were diverted to the loading area with the
"passengers"... (“SS Special Command Herbert Lange”)
• The latest research on Dziekanka/Tiegenhof assumes that 5,000 or more
sick-killers have been killed...
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