Schmidt Testimony on the Euthanasia Program
All Primary Sources / Race Science 1946 AFFIDAVITI, 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.
Order Extending Euthanasia to Insane Eastern Workers
All Primary Sources / Race Science 6 September 1944 Reich Minister of the Interior Berlin, 6 September 1944 9255/44 To :a. The Reich Governor [Reichsstatthalter] (State government)b. The Oberpraesidenten (administration of the provincial association)c. The County Presidentsd. The Police President in Berline. The Lord Mayor [Oberbuergermeister] of the Reich capital Berlin.Re:
Aktion 14 f 13 in the Concentration Camps
All Primary Sources / Race Science 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
Letter from Bishop of Limburg to the Reich Minister of Justice
All Primary Sources / Race Science 13 August 1941 The Bishop of LimburgLimburg/fiahm, 13August 1941To the Reich Minister of Justice BerlinRegarding the report submitted on July 16 (sub. ZV,pp.6-7) by the Chairman of the Fulda Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Dr. Bertram, I consider it my duty to present the following as a
Letter from Dr. Conti to the Mental Hopsital in Kaufbeuren
All Primary Sources / Race Science 16 November 1939 The Reich Minister of the Interior Berlin, NW 40, Koenigsplatz 6,16 November 1939 IV g 4178 /39-5100 Telephone: Dept. Z, I,11,V, VIII 1100 27 Dept. 11,IV, VI (Unter den Linden 72) ;12 00 34 Tel. Address : Reichsinnenminister To the
Letter from Hitler to Karl Brandt
All Primary Sources / Race Science 1 September 1939 [Letterhead :A. HITLER]Berlin, 1 September 1939Reichsleiter Bouhler and Dr. Brandt, M. D., are charged with the responsibility of enlarging the authority of certain physicians to be designated by name in such a manner that persons who, according to human judgment, are incurable
Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases
All Primary Sources / Race Science 14 July 1933 The Reich Government has passed the following law, which is announced herewith :Par. 1(1)Anyone who is suffering from a hereditary disease can be sterilized by a surgical operation if, according to the experiences of medical science, it is to be expected with
Decree Relating to the Payment of a Fine by the Jews of German Nationality
All Primary Sources / Kristallnacht 12 November 1938 The hostile attitude of the Jewry towards the German people and Reich, which does not even shrink back from committing cowardly murder, makes a decisive defense and a harsh punishment (expiation) necessary. I order, therefore, by virtue of the decree concerning the execution
Measures Against Jews Tonight
All Primary Sources / Kristallnacht 10 November 1938 Teletype Message Munich 47 767 10 November 1938 -0120- To all State Police Main Offices and Field Offices To all SD-Main Sectors and to SD-Sub-sectorsSECRETFlash Urgent to be submitted at once. Urgent to be submitted immediately to the Chief or his deputy.Regards: Measures
Order of Protective Custody
All Primary Sources / Camps 29 August 1935 Nurnberg August 29, 1935Police Headquarters; Nurnberg-Fuerth Re: Protective Custody.Order for Protective CustodyOn the basis of Article 1of the VI of the Reich President for the protection of people and state, of 28 Feb. 1933 (RGBI. I P. 83) the ministerial decree of May