Page "Dortmund" Paragraph 6

Under Nazi Germany, the synagogue was destroyed in 1938.

Also, the Aplerbeck Hospital in Dortmund transferred mentally and / or physically disabled patients for euthanasia at the Hadamar mental hospital as part of the Action T4 ( an additional 229 children were killed in the " Children's Specialist Department ", which was transferred from Marburg in 1941 ).

Dortmund bombing targets of the Oil Campaign of World War II included Hoesch-Westfalenhütte AG, the " Hoesch-Benzin GmBH " synthetic oil plant, and the Zeche Hansa coking plant ; and bombing destroyed about 66 % of the Dortmund homes and about 98 % of the inner city area.

The code word Dortmund was radioed to initiate the 1941 Operation Barbarossa campaign against the Soviet Union.