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Vipeholmsanstalten in Lund was a hospital for patients who were described as “difficult for the uneducated insane to care for.”
Over many years, several controversial medical experiments were conducted in Vipeholm, the most famous of which was when patients with developmental disorders had to eat large amounts of candy to see how it affected their teeth.
The study ended with patients with severe decay attacks on their teeth. All experiments were performed without the consent of the patients or relatives.
Now P1 Dokumentär has come across hitherto unknown notes from hospital director Hugo Fröderberg that he wrote in the 1970s, he calls them his autobiography. In the notes, he describes the Vipeholmsanstalten patients.
“A peculiarly controversial, backward, deficient, precious group of people… It is insane to prolong their lives so that they become more and more. Justified passive euthanasia. Nobody cries for them, ”he writes.
“Short patient”
Hugo Fröderberg had a system, he classified the inmates into different intelligence groups, from 0 to 6. Those who ended up in group 0 considered the chief doctor “to be close to the monsters”.
This is how he wrote about a patient in a medical record:
“He appears to be a short patient, so there can hardly be a more intensive treatment.”
Maria Björkman is a medical historian. He has read parts of the autobiography and describes for P1 how the chief physician looked at his patients:
– They were deficient. Their biology was deficient in this view. Nothing could be done about it. And it becomes like a self-fulfilling prophecy, you can’t do anything and then you don’t do anything, and then the patients get worse, he says.
There are also testimonies from the current period. Claus Garmer, was a young medical candidate on Vipeholm in the 1950s. His memory of what happened in the institution agrees with the notes of Hugo Fröderberg.
– But you had to make sure they got the die, then they had to die. They would just continue to be idiots. Hard to care for, he tells P1 Documentary.
“Vipeholmsanstalten” in the documentary P1
Documentary series in five parts. The series is a collaboration between Ekot and P1 Dokumentär.
“They were called ineducable idiots, ordered and locked up. Vipeholm’s chief physician had selected 152 of the prisoners’ brains. One day, reporter Randi Mossige-Norheim discovers her uncle on the list.”
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