
2026 Holocaust Studies Tour, Day 4: Brandenburg an der Havel
Today we spent in Brandenburg, touring through this mid-sized city and learning about the euthanasia program the National Socialists started there just a couple months after the war started. Christian Marx was our guide the entire day. We visited and learned about one of the city’s very old churches (St. Catherine’s – going to back to the 14th century), some important local resistance, and the moral capitulation of many doctors, nurses, and administrators. (Nearly10,000 men, women, and children were killed by CO2 gas in about 9 months of time. This was the first place to design and employ gas as