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Vienna’s Otto-Wagner-Spital: A Disturbing Story

July 21, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

Before I conclude my own personal homage to Vienna’s most famous architect (coming in a few weeks when I write about Otto Wagner’s stunning Österreichische Postsparkasse) I want to look again at the Otto-Wagner-Spital which we visited a few days back. In the previous post, I made reference to the fact that the Otto Wagner Hospital in …

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Filed Under: History, Travel Tagged With: art nouveau, Central European University, Kindereuthanasie in Wien 1940-1945, Otto-Wagner-Spital, Steiner (Leopold), Vienna, Vienna - Am Spiegelgrund, Vienna - Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, Vienna - Klinik Penzik, Vienna - Memorial Steinhof, Vienna - Memorial to the History of Nazi-Medicine in Vienna, Vienna - Psychiatrisches Krankenhaus, Vienna - Zentralfriedhof, von Boog (Carlo), Wagner (Otto), Zednicek (Walter)

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