This reminds me of the time I was part of an art exhibition in Schloss Hartheim in Austria. The palace had been used as a gas chamber in by Nazis to murder disabled people & ppl with learning difficulties, so it was now an institute to take care of ppl with learning difficulties>
https://twitter.com/wendyburn/status/1360939331758792706
> The palace was beautiful but such an ugly, evil thing had been done there. The downstairs was a museum that remembered what had been done. Upstairs was the art gallery, where work of disabled artists was shown. There was a custom built, beautiful building next door, where >
> residents lived, and appeared to have a much happier life in comfortable surroundings where they were free to create. The ugliness of the past was remembered though, alongside the progress of the future, a memorial to prevent the same thing happening again. >
> It’s a stark contrast to what we are seeing and hearing here: people being culled - left to die - because of their learning disability. This on top of the deaths of disabled people due to austerity, as well as the hardship and sever impact to their to their quality of life. >
> History won’t look kindly on this period of British history, where disabled people (as well as many other vulnerable groups) have died, been left to die, faced forced hardship and sanctioned abuse/hostility by government policies, with silence from mental health charities.
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