Severely mentally and physically disabled people, as well as those perceived to have disabilities, were targeted by the Nazis because of their beliefs that disabled people were a burden to society and to the state.
Anna Lehnkering was one of approximately 250,000 disabled people who were murdered under the Nazi regime. Here we describe what happened to her, and to many other disabled people, and we remember them.
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