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Officials in western Austria say exhumations are to take place at a psychiatric hospital thought to contain the remains1 of Nazi2 victims.
西奥地利官员称,一座精神病医院将进行尸体挖掘工作,该地可能埋有纳粹受害者的遗体。
The Nazis4 murdered thousands of disabled people they thought unfit to live, deeming it "euthanasia(安乐死) ". The hospital believes many died there as part of the programme.
A planned construction project has been halted to allow a full investigation5.
Some 30,000 people were killed at one psychiatric hospital alone - Schloss Hartheim, near Linz in upper Austria.
Tilak, the company responsible for the Hall hospital, said the graves contained the remains of people buried between 1942 and 1945.
There were, it added, "suspicions that the dead [were] at least partially6 victims" of the programme of murders the Nazis referred to as "euthanasia".
'Dark chapter'
Exhumations(发掘) are to begin when the ground thaws7(融解,暖和) , probably in March.
Announcing that a commission of experts would be formed shortly to investigate, Guenther Platter, governor of Tyrol province, said he had been "deeply shaken" by the discovery.
"This dark chapter of history must now be carefully brought to light," he added.
Investigators8 would be seeking to identify the remains and establish the cause of death, Tilak representatives were quoted as saying by Austria's Die Presse newspaper.
Hospital historian Oliver Seifert said it was already clear that not all of those buried had been victims of the Nazis.
"We know that active killing9 went on at other institutions in Austria... but there are no indications of this at the moment in Hall," he told Reuters news agency.
Hall Hospital remains a functioning psychiatric hospital, with beds for 500 patients.
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n.(足以解冻的)暖和天气( thaw的名词复数 );(敌对国家之间)关系缓和v.(气候)解冻( thaw的第三人称单数 );(态度、感情等)缓和;(冰、雪及冷冻食物)溶化;软化 | |
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