German psychiatry was not "abused" by the National Socialists, rather it was involved in the crimes intellectually, structurally and personally. At least 296,000 mentally impaired children and adults were murdered. The darkest chapter in modern German history stretches from the Nazi "seizure of power" in 1933 to the capitulation of the regime in 1945. Psychiatry is particularly affected: The issue is not whether German psychiatry was involved intellectually, institutionally and personally in the murder of hundreds of thousands of patients, but how, why and to what extent.
—Psychiatrienetz