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Letter to Dr. Guertner concerning letters and reports on the deaths of nursing home inmates [euthanasia program]
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Authors
Hans H. Lammers (Dr., Chief of Reich Chancellery)
Hans H. Lammers
German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962)
- Born: 1879-05-27 (Lubliniec)
- Died: 1962-01-04 (Düsseldorf)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; jurist; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German National People's Party (until: 1932-01-01); Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Ministries Trial (role: defendant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant, witness)
- Significant person: Adolf Hitler (role: superior); Karl Brandt (role: colleague)
Date: 02 October 1940
Literal Title: Letter from Dr. Lammers to the Minister of Justice on the Deaths of Nursing Home Inmates
Defendant: Wilhelm Frick
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: Multilanguage
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-615
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 715
Document Book No: Prosecution LL (Frick)
Citation: IMT (page 2859)
HLSL Item No.: 453318
Notes:The text is in English first, then German.
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-615: A letter from the Bishop of Limburg to Min-istry of Justice protesting the killing of insane
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-615: Letter from the Bishop of Limburg to the Reich Minister of justice, 13 August 1941, concerning the annihilation of the so-callÉd "unfit to live" in the institution of Hadamar
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-615: Letter Bishop of LIMBURG to MINISTER of Justice 13 August 1941.
Letter of 13 Aug. 1941 from the bishop of Limburg, Dr. Hilfrich, to the Reich Minister of Justice, Berlin, with copies to the Reich Minister of the Interior and the Reich Minister for Church Affairs.
the wind . . . Children call each other names and say: 'You are crazy; you'll be sent to the baking oven in Hadamar. . .' You hear old folks say: 'Don't send me to a state hospital.' 'After the feeble minded have been finished off, the next useless eaters who will come are the old people. . .' The official notice that N.N. had died of a contagious disease and that for that reason his body had to be burned, no longer finds credence."
Letter of 13 Aug. 1941 from the bishop of Limburg, Dr. Hilfrich, to the Reich Minister of Justice, Berlin, with copies to the Reich Minister of the Interior and the Reich Minister for Church Affairs.
Letter from Bishop of Limberg to RJM protesting killing of insane.
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