Abstract
During the Second World War, the behavior of some staff members of French psychiatric hospitals was not always honest, exemplary or free of reproach. The theft of food for the mentally ill people sometimes worsened the famine and excess mortality of these patients. Using original research material from the Departmental Archives of the Gironde, the author discusses various historical documents proving that during this period of war several employees at the psychiatric hospital in Cadillac received administrative or judicial sanctions for fraudulently diverting the food ant property of patients to their detriment. This is the first French study to focus on this issue.
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