Austria: Cemetery could contain Nazi victims
HALL, Austria — Officials say a hospital cemetery in western Austria could contain the remains of up to 220 people killed by the Nazis.
The hospital holding company says it became aware of the possibility during planning to dig up the cemetery in Hall in Tyrol province to make way for a construction project.
It said in a statement Monday that the graves contain remains of people buried between 1942 and 1945. It says "there are suspicions that the dead are at least partially victims of" the Nazi euthanasia program.
Spokesman Johannes Schwamberger says work on the construction project has been stopped to allow an investigation and to identify the dead.
More than 75,000 people were killed by the Nazis for having physical or mental disabilities.
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