Outline
- Schmidt Testimony on the Euthanasia Program
- Order Extending Euthanasia to Insane Eastern Workers
- Aktion 14 f 13 in the Concentration Camps
- Letter from Bishop of Limburg to the Reich Minister of Justice
- Letter from Dr. Conti to the Mental Hospital in Kaufbeuren
- Letter from Hitler to Karl Brandt
- Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases
SCHMIDT TESTIMONY ON THE EUTHANASIA PROGRAM
1946
AFFIDAVIT
I, Gerhard Schmidt, Director of Haar-Eglfing Insane 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 Instftute for Legal Medicine in Berlin. I worked in Bavaria since 1937 at the ,Public Hospital, MunichSchwabing, and also at the Research Institute for psychiatry in Munich. Since 1935, I have been familiar with the system of public asylums, mental hospitals, and similar institutions in Germany. I know that public institutions of this kind were under the supervision and control of the provisional administration of the Laender at the district level. All these public institutions were under the supervision and control of the Reich Ministry of the, Interior in Berlin at the highest level. The Reich Minister of the Interior was, as I know, Dr. Wilhelm Frick. As Reich Minister of the Interior, he was chief of the Medical Department of the Reich Ministry of the Interior from 1933 until August 1942 when he became Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
Order Extending Euthanasia to Insane Eastern Workers
6 September 1944
Reich Minister of the Interior
Berlin, 6 September 1944 9255/44
To :
a. The Reich Governor [Reichsstatthalter] (State government)
Action 14 f 13 in the Concentration Camps
1943
Main Bureau for SS Economic Administration
Bureau Group Chief D -- Concentration Camp --
DI/l/Az: 14 f 13/L/S
Secret order of the day -- No. 612/43
Subject: Action 14 f 13 in the concentration camps.
Reference: Local directive DI/l/Az: 14 f 13/0T/S -- Secret order
of the day No. 34/43 of S.1.43
Letter from Bishop of Limburg to the Reich Minister of Justice
1946
AFFIDAVIT I, Gerhard Schmidt, Director of Haar-Eglfing Insane 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 Instftute for Legal Medicine in Berlin. I worked in Bavaria since 1937 at the ,Public Hospital, MunichSchwabing, and also at the Research Institute for psychiatry in Munich. Since 1935, I have been familiar with the system of public asylums, mental hospitals, and similar institutions in Germany. I know that public institutions of this kind were under the supervision and control of the provisional administration of the Laender at the district level. All these public institutions were under the supervision and control of the Reich Ministry of the, Interior in Berlin at the highest level. The Reich Minister of the Interior was, as I know, Dr. Wilhelm Frick. As Reich Minister of the Interior, he was chief of the Medical Department of the Reich Ministry of the Interior from 1933 until August 1942 when he became Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
Letter from Dr. Conti to the Mental Hospital in Kaufbeuren
1946
AFFIDAVIT I, Gerhard Schmidt, Director of Haar-Eglfing Insane 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 Instftute for Legal Medicine in Berlin. I worked in Bavaria since 1937 at the ,Public Hospital, MunichSchwabing, and also at the Research Institute for psychiatry in Munich. Since 1935, I have been familiar with the system of public asylums, mental hospitals, and similar institutions in Germany. I know that public institutions of this kind were under the supervision and control of the provisional administration of the Laender at the district level. All these public institutions were under the supervision and control of the Reich Ministry of the, Interior in Berlin at the highest level. The Reich Minister of the Interior was, as I know, Dr. Wilhelm Frick. As Reich Minister of the Interior, he was chief of the Medical Department of the Reich Ministry of the Interior from 1933 until August 1942 when he became Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
Letter from Hitler to Karl Brandt
1946
AFFIDAVIT I, Gerhard Schmidt, Director of Haar-Eglfing Insane 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 Instftute for Legal Medicine in Berlin. I worked in Bavaria since 1937 at the ,Public Hospital, MunichSchwabing, and also at the Research Institute for psychiatry in Munich. Since 1935, I have been familiar with the system of public asylums, mental hospitals, and similar institutions in Germany. I know that public institutions of this kind were under the supervision and control of the provisional administration of the Laender at the district level. All these public institutions were under the supervision and control of the Reich Ministry of the, Interior in Berlin at the highest level. The Reich Minister of the Interior was, as I know, Dr. Wilhelm Frick. As Reich Minister of the Interior, he was chief of the Medical Department of the Reich Ministry of the Interior from 1933 until August 1942 when he became Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases
1946
AFFIDAVIT I, Gerhard Schmidt, Director of Haar-Eglfing Insane 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 Instftute for Legal Medicine in Berlin. I worked in Bavaria since 1937 at the ,Public Hospital, MunichSchwabing, and also at the Research Institute for psychiatry in Munich. Since 1935, I have been familiar with the system of public asylums, mental hospitals, and similar institutions in Germany. I know that public institutions of this kind were under the supervision and control of the provisional administration of the Laender at the district level. All these public institutions were under the supervision and control of the Reich Ministry of the, Interior in Berlin at the highest level. The Reich Minister of the Interior was, as I know, Dr. Wilhelm Frick. As Reich Minister of the Interior, he was chief of the Medical Department of the Reich Ministry of the Interior from 1933 until August 1942 when he became Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.