Official:   Exhumations   of   Nazi-era  graveyard  yield  no  initial
   indications of Nazi atrocities
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   By The Associated Press

   VIENNA  --  Officials  say  exhumed  remains  from  a disused hospital
   cemetery have not so far backed up suspicions that it contains victims
   killed by the Nazis because of physical or mental disabilities.

   The Austria Press Agency cited anthropologist George McGlynn as saying
   initial  examinations  show  that the remains are those of people with
   major physical or mental disabilities. But he says 10 graves dug up so
   far  contain  no  nail  or  hair  tissues  that  could  yield signs of
   starvation deaths.

   The  cemetery  in  the western Austrian town of Hall in Tirol contains
   the remains of 220 people.

   Hospital  officials  have said that some were likely victims of a Nazi
   euthanasia campaign.

   Across  Europe, 75,000 people were killed for real or imagined mental,
   physical  or  social  disabilities  that did not fit Nazi pseudo-Aryan
   ideals.

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