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up of the patients, which will take place on my order. "The transport is to be prepared by the delivering institution. In case the institution has no railroad siding, the transportation of the patient to the next railroad station is to be done by the institution. Restless patients are to be treated by adequate means fo... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 450,000 | 450,500 |
the recess period be ready to show to the Tribunal the original of Document No. 1063. If the document is convenient, the Prosecution will hand it to the Tribunal at this time. DR. HOCHWALD:If the Tribunal please, I want to read from page no. 4. THE PRESIDENT:We have stated that the Tribunal will now recess but I have a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 450,450 | 450,950 |
not necessarily a weakness from the point of view of a National Socialist physician. However, it hinders me from combining this new duty with the one I have hitherto carried out. "If this should force you to place the work in the Children's House into other hands, it would certainly be a painful loss to me. However, I ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 450,900 | 451,400 |
mental institution Eglfing-Haar, in which children of the Reich Committee for the Scientific Approach to severe Hereditary and Constitutional Diseases are confined. I declare to carry out my duties in this ward according to the instructions issued by my chief and I confirm that my attention has been called to the fact ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 451,350 | 451,850 |
received in evidence? MR. SHILLER:Yes, Your Honor, this is already Prosecution Exhibit Number 238. THE PRESIDENT:Two of the copies handed to the Bench are Document Book Number 14, Part 1, while two copies are Document Book Number 14, Part. 2, We are still short two copies of Document Book, Part 2...... I was misinforme... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 451,800 | 452,300 |
the Bayerische Vereinsbank in Wuerzburg. "Respectfully, (signed) "Hans Sonder c/o Topsy's 112-01 Queens Blvd. Forest Hills, N.Y., U.S.A." on the next page we find the reply: "COPY" "Nr. 5289 "1 Enclosure "To: The Management of the Therapeutic and Nursing Establishment "Eglfing-Haar "transmitted with request to handle d... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 452,250 | 452,750 |
her. Perhaps you are furthermore in a position to tell me what is the best possible way to reach Eglfing from Munich. Thanking you in advance, Most respectfully, (signed) Benne Israel Rosenbaum, returnstamp!" On page 119 we have the reply: "Draft mdt. 6/12/40. Mr. Benne Israel Rosenbaum, Memmingen, Eglfing, 6 December ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 452,700 | 453,200 |
Eglfing-Haar he has been transferred to an unknown institution with a collective transport of Jewish patients on 20 September 1940. Dr. Zeller, Certified: (Signed) Haeussel, Clerk of the administration of justice. Next page, seven: "Subject: Placing under guardianship: Albert Israel Tillmann. "Copy: To the Mental Insti... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 453,150 | 453,650 |
24, 1941 and having a total of 100 patients. Turning to page 143 of the Document book, pages 143, 144 and 145 consist of transport lists No. 11, completed on January 24, 1941, having a total of 100 patients. The Tribunal will now turn to page 147 of the Document book. I now offer in evidence Document No. 1136 as Prosec... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 453,600 | 454,100 |
Honor, that should be 18. "Heil Hitler (initialed) illegible. pencilled: Have been registered: 1) Czerny Gertrud 8 January 35, 2) Hernsterner, Edward 2 January 1938 and 3) Trenker, Gertrud 7 May 1938." I ask Your Honors to turn to the next page of the Document book. I offer in evidence No. 1142 as Prosecution Exhibit N... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 454,050 | 454,550 |
on page 152. This is Document No. 1138, which we offer as Prosecution Exhibit No.349. This document consists of correspondence between Pfannmueller and the Reich Committee for Scientific Research of Heriditary and Constitutional Serious Diseases. "Reich Committee dated for the Scientific Research 30 April 1941 of Herid... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 454,500 | 455,000 |
of care and suited for the Institution Schoenbrunn. In my opinion the child is one of those we observe and treat in our institution according to the regulations of Reich Committee for Scientific Research of Hereditary and Constitutional Serious Diseases. The special ward of the children's house was not yet opened at th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 454,950 | 455,450 |
Exhibit No. 352. On Page 157 translated for the heading "List of reported children according to the Circular of the Reich Minister of Interior about disposition of deformed (and similarly afflicted) new born babies." Pages 157 to page 162 consist of six of these lists. The Tribunal will now turn to Page 164, You will n... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 455,400 | 455,900 |
Pfannmueller to Dr. Heyde, refers to the 107th shipment of registration forms, 300 pieces. On Page 184 still another refers to the 108th shipment of registration forms, 300 pieces. The Tribunal will now turn to Page 187. This is the last letter in this document and refers to the 158th shipment of registration forms, 20... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 455,850 | 456,350 |
be interrupted temporarily from the time of transfer until their signed: Stuertz." Page 209 of the Document Book is another document, that is Document No. 1696-PS, which the Prosecution offers in evidence as Prosecution Exhibit No. 357. This is a letter from Dr. Conti to the Minister of the Interior, concerning questio... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 456,300 | 456,800 |
performance of healthy person)." Again this shows that where the individual would result in some economic benefit to the Reich or to the Reich Government, that this was not purely a matter of medical and scientific interest. On Page 212 of the Document book, "Public Utility, Ambulance Transportation G.m.b.H., Dept. II/... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 456,750 | 457,250 |
Hospital, Kaufbeuren. Your reference: 2080. Your letter of 13.11.40 Augsburg, 6.5.1941, concerning the transfer of patients. "I have the honor to inform you that the female patients transferred from your institution on 8.11.1940 to the institutions in Grafeneck, Bernburg, Sonnenstein and Harthein all died in November o... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 457,200 | 457,700 |
the doctors could perform a good diagnosis in a few days for the patients newly admitted after the deadline. This completes Document Book 14, part II. My associate, Mr. Robbins, will now continue with the presentation of evidence in Document Book 14, Part III. MR. ROBBINS:May it please the Tribunal, I now offer Documen... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 457,650 | 458,150 |
January) and by the first of August (as of 1st July) of each year after the last notification, in other words, during the last six months what patients they have received. "I take this opportunity of reiterating this directive. At the same time I note the following. "For special reasons I now stress the necessity of ma... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 458,100 | 458,600 |
Interior. (Signed) Linden." I should next like to offer into evidence Document No.NO-841as Prosecution's Exhibit 360. This is a form letter which was used to notify relatives of the transfer of patients from mental institutions. The original contains blanks as indicated in the translation. It is on the letterhead of th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 458,550 | 459,050 |
as a matter of fact, the appendix had been removed as much as ten years previously. The next document which I would like to offer into evidence is DocumentNO-828. I beg your pardon. This is still part of Document 828, and it is found on Page 229 of Document Book No. 111. This also a typical letter. I will not burden th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 459,000 | 459,500 |
list of obituary notices contained in a Leipzig newspaper, 1940. I will not burden the Court by reading all of them. The first one reads as follows: "After fearful uncertainty we received today from Linz on the Danube the sad news of the sudden death of my dear wife, Mrs. Johanna Eckhardt, nee Mueller, born 18 March 18... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 459,450 | 459,950 |
of love for the profession in the asylum for the mentally deranged. During my study of medicine I did not specialize in psychiatry; I only took the psychiatric courses prescribed within the syllabus of medical studies. In 1934 I worked as junior assistant for eight months. On 15 March 1935 I received a position as assi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 459,900 | 460,400 |
sixty each for the purpose of mercy killings. The history of these killings is as follows: "In spring or summer 1940 a commission headed by Dr. Steinmeyer arrived at our institution and studied the case histories of curpatients. The commission consisted of a total number of 25; among them were at least two medical doct... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 460,350 | 460,850 |
Dr. Schuch because of the latters sabotage of the mercy killings. "This discussion between Dr. Schmalenbach and Dr. Schuch probably took place either in 1941 or 1942 after several transports had been carried out. "The transfers for the purpose of killing stopped in 1942. I believe that this was caused by difficulties i... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 460,800 | 461,300 |
that it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. I was given the opportunity to make changes and corrections in the above affidavit. The affidavit was given by me freely and voluntarily, without promise or reward and I was subjected to no compulsion or duress of any kind. "(singed) Dr. Schnidtmann." ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 461,250 | 461,750 |
are of foreign nationality. And, so are those listed on page 249; the list contains the names of persons of foreign nationality, and the date on which they were transferred. The summary at the bottom of the page states; "Transferred on 20 September 1940 were: 158 Jews (82 men, 76 women) from various institutions. Thirt... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 461,700 | 462,200 |
files, obtained also oral report from the physicians of the asylum but gave only evasive answers to all questions with regard to the real purpose of their investigation. After four days their activities were concluded. Upon their departure the members stated that they had compiled a list of such patients who were going... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 462,150 | 462,650 |
that the documents which he assumes would exenerate him do not exist anymore I understood him to say that he himself destroyed them upon orders from above. (signed) Max Leusser." I should next like to offer into evidence Document NumberNO-817as Prosecution Exhibit Number368. It is found on page 254 of the document book... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 462,600 | 463,100 |
counsel at the earliest possible moment. MR. ROBBINS:Yes. "As I learned from the personnel accompanying the transports, all patients transferred from my institution were brought to the Castle of Grafeneck where euthanasia was to be carried out. "4. I never received an instruction to the effect that foreign nationals we... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 463,050 | 463,550 |
coaches, one of which was set aside for the men and the other for the women. As I was engaged in checking the lists of patients and attending to the delivery of their baggage, it is not possible for me to state whether these patients were in a condition to travel; but I do know that some of them had to be carried to th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 463,500 | 464,000 |
I sane Asylum, after having been duly sworn, do hereby make the following statement: "I was licensed as M.D. by the University of Berlin (1930). In 1935 I became an assistant at the Institute for legal Medicine in Berlin. I worked in Bavaria since 1937 at the Public Hospital, Munich-Schwabing, and also at the Research ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 463,950 | 464,450 |
Reich agency in Berlin--W.9 P.O.B. 101. A short time after the reports were filed, the county health authorities of the respective districts received an order that these children should be sent to a special institution for special modern therapy. I know from hundreds of cases that this 'special modern therapy! was noth... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 464,400 | 464,900 |
of the First World War were exempt from the euthanasia program. This corroborates the statement earlier today, and which appears on page 236 of the Document Book, that World War veterans were subject to the euthanasia program. According to the Nazis to be a soldier is the greatest of all glories, to be a Nazi soldier a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 464,850 | 465,350 |
four times. Immediately after I left, he was killed according to my wife, who was at that time still at Wieslach. This man was in no way feeble minded. In fact, the institute made 300 marks out of him because he was an expert basket maker. His killing was part of the program to kill psychopaths. "After I came to Emendi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 465,300 | 465,800 |
think that this witness, since he states that he was frequently in Berlin, would be able to make important statements in that regard, and I think it would be more proper if the witness appears here personally and that this affidavit not be admitted into evidence and not be read. It is not a statement which was sworn to... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 465,750 | 466,250 |
took place in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, Unter den Linden 72-74, later in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, Voss-Strasse. At the occasion of such a stay in Berlin, Ministerial Director Dr. Linden of the Reich Ministry of the Interior told me that the introduction of a law on Euthanasia was intended. For reas... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 466,200 | 466,700 |
success, I myself did not get to see this communication, the personal consultant of the Ministry of the Interior of Baden made the reply. Read, approved and signed, Dr. Ludwig Sprauer." I should next like to offer into evidence DocumentNO-818as Prosecution Exhibit Number 373 on page 265 of document book III, which is a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 466,650 | 467,150 |
convinced, that these ill people are being done away with. "Since on 10 and 13 September also from the institution under my direction 75 each time of the patients entrusted to me are to be transferred to such an institution, I take the privilege to ask the question: Is it possible that such a measure is carried out, al... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 467,100 | 467,600 |
for Defense, to move from your institution the patients enumerated in attached list with two copies which are enclosed likewise. The patients will be fetched on 4 May 1940 noon by busses of the Patient Transport Corporation who will get in touch with you. "The transport is to be prepared by the institution moving the p... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 467,550 | 468,050 |
if a person made inquiries to the Reich Minister and if it were determined that there were no political objections against a person, it might be explained to them verbally in case they were quiet and reasonable, just what was taking place. Turning to page 272, still a part of Document Number D-906, is a file note, sign... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 468,000 | 468,500 |
another institution on orders from the Reich Defence Commissar, that a Berlin Transport Company was to carry out the transfer and that the head of the institution was to follow the directives of this company which was in possession of a list of names. In this way three transports with a total of 370 patients have been ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 468,450 | 468,950 |
hidden from the public. "It also appears that the established commissions work too hastily, are not always licky, and that several mistakes occurred. Nor can one prevent individual cases from becoming known and spoken about. "The following cases should naturally not have occurred: "1. Through an oversight one family re... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 468,900 | 469,400 |
Page 278 I should like to read the letter appearing on that page, still a part of Document D-906, from Sellmer, Chief of the Gau Staff Office, addressed to Sturmbannfuehrer Freidrich, Nurnberg; "Subject: Unrest of the population of Absberg owing to the conspicuous evacuation of the inmates of the Ottilienheim. "As I ha... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 469,350 | 469,850 |
were made which must be regarded as irresponsible. It goes without saying that the pastor of the Ottilienheim himself helped to create the appropriate atmosphere by having the people who were to be removed brought to the Abbey church for confession and communion in the morning and having them practically carried to the... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 469,800 | 470,300 |
parties, allegedly for an examination at the clinic at Erlangen. In the bus itself there were a doctor and three nurses who loaded these people on to the bus and supervised each transport. "A great number of spectators congregated each time these people were put on the bus and it is reported that the loading did not ta... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 470,250 | 470,750 |
Abensberg. "It is even said that those poor victims - as they are regarded by the clergy and the religious inhabitants of Absberg - were taken to the Catholic church for confession and communion shortly before their departure. It seems absolutely ridiculour to attempt to absolve by an oral confession the possible sins ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 470,700 | 471,200 |
Party takes in this matter. "Ortsgruppenleiter Reuschel is furthermore of the opinion that he should speak about the removal of the inmates, if possible at the next meeting of Party members, in order to give the facts and above all to squash, the rumors that have arisen to the effect that the inmates would very seen be... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 471,150 | 471,650 |
to be cremated and the ashes are placed at the disposal of the relatives. Small mistakes in notifying are naturally always liable to occur, and in the future it will not be possible to avoid them either The commission itself is anxious to avoid all mistakes. I could give you further information but I would like to abst... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 471,600 | 472,100 |
institution in question and how many inmates are sheltered there. "Since the composition of the groups of inmates varies quite extensively, according to previous experience, I should also like to receive information on that subject, if possible. I place special emphasis on learning whether, due to the lack of other hou... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 472,050 | 472,550 |
The prosecution may proceed. MR. HARDY:May it please the Tribunal, during the examination of the witness Kogon reference was made to a man named Ferdinand Roemhild who was secretary in the hospital barracks at Buchenwald. Kogon stated that man might mere specifically testify as to some of the activities within the hosp... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 472,500 | 473,000 |
was put on various difficult tasks until finally, in the year of 1939, after having worked in the office for some time and in the photographic department of the camp, I became a clerk in the hospital of the concentration camp. QWhen did you become a clerk in the hospital barracks of the concentration camp? AIn the summ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 472,950 | 473,450 |
and reports? AYes. QI assume, witness, that you know Dr. Hoven very well? AI believe to know him rather well. QWitness, at this time will you please stop down from the witness box and go over to the defendants' deck and point to the man you know to be Dr. Hoven? AYes. He is in the last row. QWhat is his location? AThe ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 473,400 | 473,900 |
mostly Germans since members of foreign nations were always considered as political inmates. QIn the course of these experiments conducted at 46 can you estimate how many victims died as a result of the experiments? That is, all the experiments? AIt is very hard to estimate the number but I would say that it reached th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 473,850 | 474,350 |
There personal belongings and their teeth were sent back and we were certain that these people went the same way as the others. I learned, from correspondence which I saw later, that we were there concerned with an action which was conducted in Bernburg, and where a certain Dr. Eberl was particularly active. The murder... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 474,300 | 474,800 |
as sick persons. The last transport contained a total of 15 or 20 people, and you could not say that these people were deathly ill. Q.Do you know of any cases, witness, of the extermination of inmates suffering with tuberculosis? A.Yes; in the year of 1941, there was a large scale action. We had received a so-called "i... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 474,750 | 475,250 |
a hospital for some time, or they reported for treatment, or else they were found in a state of collapse and brought to us. Q.Then, I take it, witness, that the hospital was in a very crowded condition at that time? A.The hospital was always overcrowded. The furnishing of the hospital was insufficient, considering the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 475,200 | 475,700 |
"reds" and the "greens", ever kill so-called "traitors" at the request of the illegal camp management? A.By request, is perhaps the wrong expression, but he was so much under the influence of the political powers in the camp, that those persons who were dangerous for the camp, the so-called "spies", had to be eliminate... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 475,650 | 476,150 |
because they were criminals and that it was done in a manner in which a mass killing was usually carried out? A.You have to be very careful in using the word "criminal" in this case because there was no judicial system which provided that a man should be killed in that manner. No man, not even a criminal person, was le... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 476,100 | 476,600 |
he is not very credible and he does not like the truth? A.It is possible that he has number of things about which wants to keep quiet. DR. SERVATIUS:I have no further question. DR.FROESCHMANN, (Counsel for the Defendant VIKTOR BRACK): Q.Witness, you were speaking at the beginning of your examination secret files; did I... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 476,550 | 477,050 |
there in the year 1938; ever since then I know him very well and we are friends. Q.Do you think that he is a credible personality? A.Yes. Q.Thank you. I now come to another point. You signed an affidavit for the Prosecution, is that correct? A.Yes. Q.In what language did you sign this affidavit? A.I saw it in English a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 477,000 | 477,500 |
understand the affidavit in English by asking him now to translate out of German into English and if we wanted to call up examples we could do that out of our own translation department. THE PRESIDENT: It appears to the Tribunal that a fair test of the witness's knowledge of English would be to submit to him the Englis... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 477,450 | 477,950 |
transferred to Block 46. As far as I can remember the names of some of these people are as follows: Alfred Leikam, Stuttgart, Karl Brauer, Halle, the Capo of Block 46, Arthur Dietzsch. Also I was in my capacity as secretary and clerk in camp hospital and was placed in charge of money belonging to patients located in Bl... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 477,900 | 478,400 |
the Standort physician? A.The Standort Physician had to look after the SS and had to exercise a certain control function over the camp physician. At tines when the camp physician wasn't available- Q.That doesn't interest me. I Want to know the pure activity of the Standort physician. A.I don't know exactly what the Sta... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 478,350 | 478,850 |
the Witness Hogan concerned, and I ask you to consider this when making your reply? A. It is possible that the demand of the legal camp management, the political leadership of the camp, played a part during this selection, but that can only concern a part of these persons who were used for these experiments. It could o... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 478,800 | 479,300 |
was never mentioned as the cause of death. QI now come to another point. Do you know, witness, that the Orderlies Weingartner, Adelf Schwarz, the laboratory assistant, Karl Brauer and you were supposed to be sent to the same camp by order of Commandant Kech and that was a camp where Walter Kraemer and Karl Feichs were ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 479,250 | 479,750 |
that? ANo; I do not know anything about that. I know that during this transport there were no Jews present. QQuite right; I was just coming to that and I wanted you to confirm that fact. But, you consider it possible that according to the order, in the year of 1941, all Jews were to be transferred, as it was confirmed ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 479,700 | 480,200 |
do not exclude the possibility 100 percent? ANo, that is correct. QDo you know that during this first action, 14F 13, the Defendant Hoven selected, or later saved Jews, Czechs and Poles by receiving a thesis on anthropological measurements from Dr. Lolling, and where did that take place; in the pathological department?... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 480,150 | 480,650 |
find out the amount of people in the transport when the lists were compiled. Q.But there were many hundreds? A.Yes, certainly there should have been many hundreds. Q.And it is therefore correct to say that owing to the interference of the Defendant Hoven many hundred Jews were saved from certain death? A.Not only Jews,... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 480,600 | 481,100 |
you said in that connection correctly that this action was conducted by Dr. Eisele but you further said, "As far as I know, during the first action, the Defendant Hoven was the first camp physician". A.Since at that time I had forgotten the name of Dr. Blancke; he could. have been the first camp physician at that time.... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 481,050 | 481,550 |
counsel's objection. If this witness is to be cross examined at further length, the questions being based upon the testimony of the witness Kogon, the witness should be permitted to read the testimony given by Kogon in order that he may see exactly what Kogon testified to. This cross examination has continued at consid... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 481,500 | 482,000 |
BY MR. HARDY: Q.Witness, in connection with this tubercular action, whether or not Hoven was first or second camp physician? Was he a higher-ranking man or doctor than Eisele? A.T.B., certainly. Even before he officially became the first camp physician he had decisive influence. Q.Witness, and do I understand you clear... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 481,950 | 482,450 |
desired. This is plain murder just as in the concentration camps. This measure uniformly emanates from the SS in Berlin. The institutions dare not inform the authorities. Inquire at once at Rottenmuenster Schassenried, Winzortal, all in Wurttemberg. Have the lists of two months ago submitted to you, check upon the inma... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 482,400 | 482,900 |
be considered that the matter could be taken up by enemy propaganda. Further on Grafeneck, which is a remote establishment without communal character, possesses an own registrar's office (and apparently a special crematorium, too) and the numerous and stereotyped dead certificates delivered there as well as in some oth... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 482,850 | 483,350 |
State dental Institution in Unterpoeltpach mentioned in a previous discussion with the same topic of confining a defendant that in checking the question whether a person should be confined, the viewpoint of euthanasia as performed today, has also to be considered. Dr. Pfinke who was very astonished about t is informati... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 483,300 | 483,800 |
report was lacking. "The multitude of the cases, but especially the circumstance that always the same date, that is, 14 June 1940, was given as the day of death, appeared strange to the Attorney-General in Naumburg, particularly as a cause for death had been given in at least two cases which would not permit the assump... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 483,750 | 484,250 |
requests. "The shoemaker Arthur Willy Erler (born 22/8/04 was sent to our asylum on 30/7/39, after having served his sentence at the Waldheim prison. He is a blind man and a dangerous habitual criminal, who was ordered to be kept in security detention and placed in an asylum. Except for his criminal disposition, E. had... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 484,200 | 484,700 |
to toe populace. I am told that even children call out when such transport cars pass. There are some more to be gassed. It is said that on the way from Weilmuenster to Hadamar daily 1 to 3 large busses pass through Limburg with covered windows which bring the inmates to the extermination institution Hadamar. The story ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 484,650 | 485,150 |
mental institution... "b) As already expected we were informed that ...... "c) After a long period of uncertainty..... "Incidentally the Chief of the Gau Press Office explained in a closing remark that in wartime an increase in deaths due to illness is natural, and thus also, of course, an increase on deaths in mental ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 485,100 | 485,600 |
to me yesterday. "Undoubtedly you know about the measures presently used by us to dispose of incurable insane persons; still, perhaps you do not fully realize the manner and the scope of this, nor the horror it creates in people's minds. Here, in Wuerttemberg, the tragedy takes place in Grafeneck, on the Alb, as a resu... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 485,550 | 486,050 |
becomes liable to capital punishment, as is said to be the case in this instance? It was equally unheard of to expect people to believe in the mysterious 'epidemics' to which the relative was said to have succumbed; a mistake which never can be made good again. Those who are responsible for these measures, do they have... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 486,000 | 486,500 |
to quiet them with subterfuges and hushing up when they ask us, with excuses which we do not believe ourselves. I am also convinced that we will pay bitterly for this attempt to stultify the people's sound fooling of resistance against these happenings and to silence it; it is the feeling of right and justice without w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 486,450 | 486,950 |
the first two pages which are a letter of transmittal of Document No. 001 from Buch to Himmler. I will read only the one page which is the answer from Himmler to Buch, who was the highest Party judge in Germany: "19 December 1940. To: The Chief of Counsel of the NSDAP Party Member Walter Buch Munich 33. Dear Party Coll... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 486,900 | 487,400 |
Heil Hitler! respectfully yours, (Signature) Gtr." for Guertner. "The next document is No. 833 on page 48 of the Document Book, which will be Exhibit 394. "Reich Ministry of Justice Under Secretary Dr. Schlegelberger Berlin, 27 July 1940 (stamped) Top Secret "My dear Mr. Reichsleiter: "The Reichsminister and Chief of t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 487,350 | 487,850 |
Guertner. Although the taking of measures against persons not fit for life does not come directly within my sphere, I consider it ay duty nevertheless, to direct your attention to the fact, that these matters are indirectly connected with many branches of the Reich Administration of Justice and undermine the security o... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 487,800 | 488,300 |
This proved especially embarrassing, if the court had to decide on a prolongation of the detention of the perpetrator according to article 42 of STGB. The funddamental principles of penal procedure were seriously affected in as much as expert physicians declared that in all good conscience they could no longer give a d... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 488,250 | 488,750 |
they are based, are deprived of legal foundation. This gives birth to the fear that decisions might be taken, which are not fully justified. The confidence in the German medical profession, especially in the administrations of sanatoria and asylums, is being badly shaken. Views are expressed, that such cases of death m... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 488,700 | 489,200 |
sin of violation of the holiest commandments of God will draw upon our whole nation. "I beg you, very esteemed Landeshauptmann, to use all your influence in order to put an end to this mass murder of innocent people. The Kapitularvikar; signed: Baumann To the Landeshaptmann Kolbow Muenster/Westphalia." This ends for th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 489,150 | 489,650 |
here about the applicability of the facts proved as against the existing German law at that time. Of course, the second judgment is that of a German court and the ruling upon the legality of the socalled "euthanasia" program under German law. But secondly we also offer them for the purpose of proving the facts found in... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 489,600 | 490,100 |
Allied tribunals. If it were an Allied, tribunal I feel that under Ordinance No. 7 they would necessarily be admissible under Ordinance No. 7. I am simply urging that the Court may receive them. THE PRESIDENT:Properly certified copies of these judgments might be filed with the Tribunal in support of arguments on questi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 490,050 | 490,550 |
criminal proceeding against one. Karl Kieling which is referred to in the judgment by the District Court of Berlin in Document No. 445 and it was inserted in the document book in case the Tribunal wished to refer to that judgment. It does not deal with "euthanasia"' and I will not at this time offer it. The next docume... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 490,500 | 491,000 |
of argument rather than be included in the record that is perfectly satisfactory with the Prosecution. THE PRESIDENT:The Court is of the opinion that such a matter as this might be more properly submitted by way of a brief in argument rather than be admitted in evidence and thereby encumber the already long record. The... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 490,950 | 491,450 |
Page 130 of the English Document book, which is document No. 707, which is an extract from the German Criminal Code, Paragraph 211, and I understand this to he the so-called old version of Paragraph 211, whereas the one we have previously offered as document 705 is the so-called new version. I offer this Document 707 a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 491,400 | 491,900 |
memo written by Pastor Braune on 9 July 1940. He was director of the Central Committee for the Home-Mission of the German Evangelical Church. I wish to read only a few extracts from this memo, the subject of which is "Planned Economy Removal of Inmates from Mental Institutions." "In the course of the last months, it ha... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 491,850 | 492,350 |
than 100 beds, this can only be the number of the death cases. According to that 595 people died in 33 days. This would mean 18 deaths per day in an institution with approximately 100 beds. This final conclusion does not seem to be impossible in the light of the fact that in the course of 1 to 2 months 300 patients wer... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 492,300 | 492,800 |
the fate in store for him and his fellow-sufferers. "In Saxony the former penitentiary Waldheim has been renamed in consequence of these measures to 'mental institution.' "From this so-called mental institution, too, came suddenly death notices, always in identical form, to the relatives, who did not know any thing abo... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 492,750 | 493,250 |
far away from a systematic destruction. "We are therefore confronted with an emergency state that affects deeply all who are familiar with the problem, that destroys the tranquility within many families and threatens to develop into a danger whose consequences cannot be foreseen. "The competent authorities are requeste... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 493,200 | 493,700 |
11, further details about the matter with corroborating documents. Notification if and when I may be received is requested care of Dean Keppler, Berlin NJ 87, Holsteiner Ufer 16, phone 392950. "Heil Hitler! "Your "(signature) "D. Wurm" The next document is on page 158, Document NumberNO-846, which will be Prosecution E... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 493,650 | 494,150 |
that euthanasia is incompatible with the Christian moral law, adding: 'The same is true of the killing of the incurably insane.' An opinion drawn up by the German bishops on this question, explained this viewpoint in detail in a memorandum addressed to the official penal code commission in the same year 1934. In 1936 t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 494,100 | 494,600 |
defend their fatherland even at the sacrifice cf their lives. The state authority furthermore carries as the 'order of God', 'the sword not for nothing,' and has the right to inflict the death penalty for especially serious crimes committed against the moral order. In the Cristian world order, however, a more extensive... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 494,550 | 495,050 |
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