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Letter to Reichsleiter Bouhler, and other letters and records on the euthanasia program, including particular cases and general public opposition
NMT 3
Authors
Franz Schlegelberger (Dr., Secretary of State, acting minister, Ministry of Justice)
Franz Schlegelberger
German judge and politician (1876-1970)
- Born: 1876-10-23 (Königsberg)
- Died: 1970-12-14 (Flensburg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; jurist; politician; university teacher
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: defendant)
- Significant person: Reinhold Richter (role: acquaintance)
- Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1941-01-30 through 1942-08-19; replaced by: Otto Georg Thierack; replaces: Franz Gürtner)
Viermetz (or Vierenitz) (Prosecutor, Dresden)
Arno Viermetz
Prosecutor general, Dresden
- Born: 1874-01-01 (Oelsnitz)
- Occupation: prosecutor
Krissner (Dr., president, court of appeal, Stuttgart (spelling of name queried))
Krissner
- Additional details not yet available.
Theophil Wurm (Dr., Bishop of Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart)
Theophil Wurm
German Lutheran bishop (1868-1953)
- Born: 1868-12-07 (Basel)
- Died: 1953-01-28 (Stuttgart)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: pastor; politician; resistance fighter; theologian
- Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-01-31; role: affiant)
- Employer: Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/72187296
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000082623383
L. Schlaich (chief, Institution for Mental Patients, Stetten)
Ludwig Schlaich
German parson (1899-1977)
- Born: 1899-06-05 (Tel Aviv)
- Died: 1977-08-07 (Waiblingen)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: Lutheran pastor; parson
- Member of: Verbindung Normannia Tübingen
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/52573890
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000012243705
- WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-52573890
Wilhelm Frick (Minister of the Interior; chief of Nazi delegation, Reichstag; admin. Plenipotentiary)
Wilhelm Frick
German Nazi official (1877-1946)
- Born: 1877-03-12 (Alsenz)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German Völkisch Freedom Party; National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: AGV München; Thule Society
- Participant in: Aryanization; Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Position held: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (period: 1943-08-24 through 1945-05-04; replaces: Konstantin von Neurath); Reichsminister des Innern (period: 1933-01-30 through 1943-08-20; replaced by: Heinrich Himmler; replaces: Franz Bracht); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Franz Guertner (Dr., Minister of Justice 1932-41)
Franz Guertner
Government minister of Germany (1881-1941)
- Born: 1881-08-26 (Regensburg)
- Died: 1941-01-29 (Berlin)
- Country of citizenship: German Reich
- Occupation: jurist; politician
- Member of political party: German National People's Party; Nazi Party; Q15787248
- Participant in: Aktion T4
- Position held: Baviarian Minister of Justice (member of cabinet: Q1719960, Q1719961, ..., Q1720104; period: 1922-08-04 through 1932-06-01; replaced by: Heinrich Spangenberger); Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1932-06-01 through 1941-01-29; replaced by: Franz Schlegelberger; replaces: Curt Joël)
- Educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Viktor Hermann Brack (Oberdienstleiter, Reich Chancellery; Waffen SS)
Viktor Hermann Brack
German economist and Nazi party functionary, convicted war criminal (1904-1948)
- Born: 1904-11-09 (Haaren)
- Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel; Waffen-SS (since: 1942-01-01)
- Participant in: Aktion T4; Madagascar Plan; Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
- Significant person: Philipp Bouhler (role: colleague)
Wurmstich (Dr., prosecutor, Jena)
Wurmstich
- Additional details not yet available.
Date: 27 July 1940
Defendants: Franz Schlegelberger, Carl Westphal
Total Pages: 38
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NG-265
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 391
Document Book No: Prosecution 8
Citation: NMT 3 (page 2702)
HLSL Item No.: 6436
Notes:References in the typescript indicate that this set includes documents that also appear in NO 833, NO 115, and NO 520. The author of the letter of 13 September 1940 is noted as "illegible (possibly Heran)."
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NG-265: Evidence linking Members of Ministry of Justice to Mercy Killings