718 Comments for Irrenanstalt Weiler

Interesting that they'd have to remind someone to walk forwards into the elevator and check to make sure the thing is actually there before going through the doors... then again, if you're at the front end of a gurney, you might be walking backwards to pull the body into the "lift cabin."

Body elevator indeed!

If the jars didn't have big hunks of decaying brain matter in them, this would make an awesome wallpaper, what with the colors of the jars and the textures of the wall behind them...

"...maybe there could be more sympathy involved in the storage, but then, the people that left them thre weren't exactly expecting a buncha people to be snooping round..."

The people that left them there weren't in the sympathy business at all! First of all, they MAY have been Nazis... and even if the samples aren't that old, they at the very least were doctors performing medical procedures, so sympathy or lack thereof wasn't part of the picture.

Personally, I am not emotionally moved by lifeless chunks of medically-excised flesh. Sure that's all that is left of those poor folks, but most of us will leave even less when we're gone (unless you're embalmed). The original donors of these samples are dead, gone, and it's over. Whether or not they were the T4 victims is probably moot. It actually IS an irresponsible method of storage to just leave it all lying around like that, but being as they are nothing more than medical samples, I don't view it as actually dishonoring the dead or anything.

That's just my opinion, though. I love this gallery - it's totally fascinating and by far one of Motts' more morbid efforts. Being such an incredibly huge Opacity fan, I have yet to find any of Motts' photos disappointing or offensive, though, so I guess you could say I am biased! heheh...

How much money would it take to get you to open that vial and take a big whiff?? *yuuuuuuuuck!!!*

All joking aside, this is a really cool - though eerie - picture!

The yellow lighting within the fridge just makes this shot! Awesome composition, great balance. Just brilliant!

In this case, weren't most of the patients who were (ahem) "euthanized" just individuals with mental or physical disabilities who were being cleared out as part of the Action T4 program? For whatever reason, they did autopsies on a lot of them, but I wonder why they took so MANY samples? Quite obviously they weren't needed. Many of these samples, then, would not actually contain "diseased" tissue... or am I off base here? (God knows I've been wrong before... a lot.)

:-)

The sign says "Never step backwards into a lift cabin! Only enter lift cabin if it is brightly lit!". Imagine stepping backwards into an empty elevator shaft... :(

Great shot!!

At first, I thought these were large blocks, stacked on sheets of wood, then I read the comments and realized they're actually tiny. The change in perspective made my head hurt!

This would actually make a very eye-catching wallpaper.

No, medical waste is not a common thing I come across in abandoned hospitals.

Yes I have a few more locations in Germany, then I will return to my USA explorations (still working through 2005 photos).

No, most records weren't noticeably dated.

I don't know when this pathology lab was abandoned, although I would venture to guess in the late 1990s or early 2000s.

Is it often that you come across human... er... remnants... in your exploring, Motts?

Ewwwww. **shudder**