References:

• Into that Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder
  Gitta Sereny
  Pimlico
  ISBN 0-7126-7447-0
• This is a Man/The Truce
  Primo Levi
  Abacus
  ISBN 0-349-10013-6
• Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
  Gitta Sereny
  Picador
  ISBN 0330346979
• The Holocaust on Trial: History, Justice and the David Irving Libel Case
  D. D. Guttenplan
  Granta Books
  ISBN 1862074860
• KL Auschwitz Seen by the SS
  Rudolf Hess, Pery Broad, Johnann Paul Kremer
  Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
  ISBN 8385047328
• Representing the Unrepresentable: Putting the Holocaust Into Public Museums
  Rainer Schulze
  University of Essex
  ISBN 1-904059-64-3
• Shoah
  Claude Lanzmann
  Eureka
  ASIN B000K8DB2
• Conspiracy
  Frank Pierson
  Warner
  ASIN B0000AZVHM
• Auschwitz: The Nazis and ‘The Final Solution’
  Dominic Sutherland
  BBC
  ASIN B0006FNXNA
• The World at War
  Jeremy Issacs
  Thames Television
  ASIN B00008WQ9Y

This new exhibition comes in two parts and focuses on the creeping steps taken in Nazi Germany that began with the gassing of the mentally ill and ended in genocide. The first part consists of six delicately coloured pencil drawings which show the outsides of the hospitals in Germany and Austria where the T4 Euthanasia programme took place between 1939 and 1941. This action resulted in over 70,000 deaths and marks the only period in history when doctors and nurses have worked with a deliberate policy to end the lives of those in their care.

The second part of this exhibition consists of five large scale oil paintings and begins with a depiction of the interior of the Bernburg mental hospital shower room. The paintings which follow trace a movement taken by the Nazis away from pretence towards an industrialised killing process.

Related Websites:

www.auschwitz.org.pl: Memorial and Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

www.deathcamps.org: Research and information on Aktion Reinhard Camps.

www.ghwk.de/engl/kopfengl.htm: Memorial and educational site of the Wannsee Conference.

www.holocaustresearchproject.org: Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team.

www.stiftung-ng.de: Official site of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial.

www.ushmm.org: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

www.yadvashem.org: Official site of Israel’s memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

www.robert-priseman.com