How German psychiatrists are still systematically destroying people’s lives
Today, the psychiatric hospital in Ueckermünde, a town in northeastern Germany, is clearly proud of its 140-year tradition. However, during the Nazi era, disabled children at the hospital were targeted for systematic killing under the banner of the T4 action. The place remained in operation after the Wall fell. In 1993, Ernst Klee’s documentary “Die […]
Abuse victim sues due to total failure of the rule of law
We were pleased to receive the information in a letter dated September 23, 2019 that the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth have acknowledged Antje Wienberg, née Dreist, as a victim of familial sexual abuse and that, contrary to our expectations and after years of tenacious resistance, the Health Authority/Medical Administration […]
The doctoral theses of the doctors and politicians connected to our stories
These excerpts are provided with comments on the doctoral theses of the doctors and politicians connected to our stories. The excerpts presented here confirm that the psychiatrist couples wrote their doctoral theses together. Soon you will learn more about the dark side of the other psychiatrists, whom I refer to in my book and other […]
Insulting e-mails from the Ministry of the Interior
Recently, an employee of the Ministry of the Interior of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania made headlines by commenting in a pejorative manner on a citizen’s inquiry. The article “The Sick Guy.” Messages of Hate from Caffier’s Interior Ministry”published in the Nordkurier newspaper on February 11, 2017 tells of Jens-Uwe Kasowski, who heads a self-help group for depression patients […]
Elisa: Victim of Forced Treatment and Torture
Elisa (04.05.1966-25.04.2002) In 1982, shortly before her Abitur secondary school exams when she was just 16, Elisa tried to officially start a political party. To achieve this, she regularly met with three of her followers in Gaststätte Kranich. Located in Neubrandenburg in the former GDR, this pub was known to be a seedy, disreputable location; […]
Inhumane medicine in Germany: Truly a thing of the past?
On January 27, 2017, the Bundestag commemorated euthanasia victims in its annual commemoration of those who suffered and died under the Nazi dictatorship. The commemoration was dedicated to the sick and those in need of protection – according to the Nazi regime, such people were unworthy of life. They were the useless who ate food […]
Advance notice: Leipzig Book Fair 2020
At the Leipzig Book Fair 2020, I will probably present a report on the activities of the medical staff involved in the book “The Voices of Those Remaining” taking into account the knowledge gained from analyzing current sources and scholarly studies. The focus of the presentation will be on the psychiatrist Dr. Rainer Gold, whose work as […]
Victim of sexual abuse
We were pleased to receive the information in a letter dated September 23, 2019 that the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth have acknowledged Antje Wienberg, née Dreist, as a victim of familial sexual abuse and that, contrary to our expectations and after years of tenacious resistance, the Health Authority/Medical Administration was able to convince […]
The Voices of Those Remaining
Dear readers, In context of the many requests for assistance that I receive from people who are also victims of medical violence, I would like to inform you that I am conducting the awareness campaign led by the publication of these contributions as an private individual and therefore have at my disposal only the resources […]
When people are treated like beasts – appalling conditions in a psychiatric hospital in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Until recently, Christian Discher, PhD, taught at the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Potsdam. It is remarkable how the author of this book literally survived the hell of Ueckermünde documented by the filmmaker Ernst Klee (1942 – 2013) in his ARD documentary from 1993. In 1997, the young Christian Discher, a skilled […]
AFTERCARE SCANDAL-When people with mental illness become victims
ELISA(1966–2002†) Elisa, you departed this world in 2002. To others you remained invisible, but for us, you remain unforgettable. FOREWORD 22 years after her first admission to a psychiatric hospital, Antje Dreist, who was born in 1967, published her memoir Fatum. In the form of poems written mainly in rhyming couplets and fragmentary episodes from her life, Dreist […]
A tribute to Nazi ideology?
“This day merely marks the beginning of a more intensive preoccupation with one of our city’s great men, a prominent psychiatrist, and therefore aims to make his life and work accessible to the public.” Quote by Mayor Andreas Grund taken from the online portal Neustrelitz Leben in 2006. Neustrelitz went to great lengths to arrange for […]
The history of the voices of those remaining is far from over, says Christian Discher PhD
“The history of the voices of those remaining is far from over,” says Christian Discher PhD, who has been fighting for years to shed light on human rights violations in medical institutions. The memoir “The Voices of Those Remaining” is a devastating and moving testimony to Christian Discher’s crisis in 1997. At 17, when he […]
Cause of Death, Psychiatry – Is Melissa Beck’s Death a Crime?
Can money be collected in Germany without taking losses into consideration? Is a hospital group just pretending to carry out treatment, during which time it damages patients, its actions covered up by policy makers and the legal system? Serious, very serious: This is how the psychiatrist described the condition of Melissa, Claudia Beck’s 20-year-old daughter, […]
Cheap labor, administrative object or person?
Since the publication and reviews of the book Out of Place: Trapped in the Care System, the responsible association Lebenshilfe e. V in the German state Saxony-Anhalt has remained silent. Hard to believe Mathias Hoppe, who is obviously very intelligent, is still forced to spend his days in a sheltered workshop for people with disabilities. […]