718 Comments for Irrenanstalt Weiler

What are those four white upright deelies...? They look pretty ominous to me!

Perfect title. I actually feel quite queasy looking at that one...*ack.*

Oh, please tell me that's some sort of rust...!

That really is bizarre. And I agree totally with Ari - that platform is incredibly intimidating...!

Excellent. A new gallery :) The perfect way to spend a Sunday morning with the rain hammering on the roof.

Thank you, Motts!!

It's quite surprising how much medical waste is forgotten about. I know of instances where all of these have been left behind in hospitals:

Fetuses
Miscarriages
Brains
A full backside of human skin
An entire dead body

I do have doubts that these samples were from T4 victims, given what I have read about the program. This institution catered to adults (as far as I know), and unlike children, they seemed to have been cremated en-masse rather than carefully dissected and examined.

Also, as Seventh has pointed out, these bottles don't seem to be very well secured and much of the formaldehyde was probably lost due to this fact - so the chance that these tissue samples date back to the 1940s is highly unlikely.

But those are just my assumptions based on what I've seen, that's all.

Great gallery, Motts. It did give me the jibblies, though. The tissue photos kind of made me queasy-like, too.

The spider had eaten the brain then couldn't get back out.

Oy, that's unsettling to say the least...I could never work in a place like this!

I'm not freaked out by the samples themselves, or by legitimate medical useage in hospitals. I don't even mind the surgery channel, etc... Biology is fascinating. What bothers people, I think, is the fact that the whole T4 thing (which was bad enough), led to many of these "samples", coupled with the fact that what was left of those poor peoples' bodies were left to rot in an abandoned building.

Again, OK when "handled appropriately", (cleanly stored in a storage room, etc...), but CLEAN THEM OUT when the building is closed (or get it taken care of soon after).

Hmmmm.... I just think these should be at least disposed of in an appropriate way, not just left to literally rot (not to mention a biohazard). No, I'm sure the people themselves don't mind anymore ( :-l ), but it just does not seem RIGHT to have these just LEFT there instead of being cleared out and taken care of. I understand genuine medical samples for unusual conditions, for purposes of study, but handled appropriately. It just seems disrespectful to just abandon things like that, especially with the circumstances that led to the deaths (which were horrible anyway).

Is that body parts on the drain to the left Motts!!!!?? < < > >

its a detachable faucet to clean bodies, and the dirt (or whatevers on the body) flows down the drain