THE REICHSMINISTER OF THE INTERIOR
IV g 4178 /39-5100
Berlin, NW 40, Koenigsplatz 6, 16 November 1939
Telephone:
Dept. Z, I, II, V, VIII, 11 00 27 Dept II, IV, VI (Unter den Linden 72) ; 12 00 34 Tel. Address: Reichsinnenminister. To the Head of the Hospital (for Mental cases)
Kaufbeuren
or his Deputy in Kaufbeuren.
With regard to the necessity for a systematized economic plan for Hospitals and Nursing Institutions, I request you to fill up
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the attached Registration Forms immediately, in accordance with the attached instructional leaflet, and to return them to me. If you yourself are not a doctor the Registration Forms for the individual patients are to be filled in by the superintending doctor. The filling up of the questionnaires is, if possible, to be done on a typewriter. In the column "Diagnosis" I request a statement as exact as possible, also a short description of the condition if feasible.
In order to expedite the work, the registration forms for the individual patients can be despatched here in several parts. The last consignment must, however, in any case have arrived at this Ministry at the latest on 1 January 1940. I reserve for myself the right, should occasion arise, to institute further official enquiries on the spot through my representative.
p.p. (Sd.) DR. CONTI
Certified.
(Sd.) Illegible Administrative Secretary.
Registration Form 1
To be typewritten.
Current No...............
Name of the institution:.................................................
at:......................................................................
Surname and Christian name of the patient: ............... at birth...........
Date of birth: ............... Place: ............... District: ..............
Last place of residence: ......................District: ..............
Unmarried, married, widow,
widower, divorced: .............Religion .............. Race* .............
Previous profession: ..............Nationality: ................Army Service
when? 1914-18
or from 1.9.39
War injury (even if no connection with
mental disorder) Yes/No ...................
How does war injury show itself and in what
does it consist? ..........................
Address of next of kin: ......................
Regular visit and by whom (Address) : ........
Guardian or nurse (Name, address) : ..........
Responsible for payment: .....................
Since when in that Institution: ..............
* German or of similar blood (of German blood), Negro (mixed breed).
Jew, Jewish mixed breed Grades I or II,
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Whence and when handed over: ................. Since when ill: ..............
If has been in other Institutions, where and how long: ......................
Twin yes..................Blood relations of unsound mind: ..................
no
Diagnosis: ..................................................................
Clinical description (Previous history, course, condition; in any case ample data regarding mental condition) : ..........................................
Very restless? yes.................... Bedridden? yes......................
no no
Incurable bodily illness: yes (which) .....................................
no
Schizophrenia: Fresh attack.... Final Condition .....................
good recovery .....................
Mental debility: weak .......... Imbecile ........... Idiot..........
Epilepsy: psychological alteration.............Average frequency
of the attacks .......
Therapeutics (Insulin, Cardiazol, Malaria, Permant result: yes ............
Salvarsan etc. When?) .............. no ..................
Admitted by reason of para. 51, para. 42b StrGB etc .......................
through .....................
Crime: ..................Former punishable offences: ......................
Manner of employment (detailed description of work) : .....................
Permanent Yes.................
Temporary Employment, independent worker No..................
Value of work (if possible compared with average performance of healthy
person) ...............................................................
This space to be left blank.
.............Place, Date...........
Signature of the head doctor or his representative (doctors who are not psychiatrists and neurologists please state same.)
PUBLIC UTILITY
AMBULANCE TRANSPORTATION G.m.b.H.
Dept. Il/d, H/K
Berlin, W. 9. 12th. May, 1941
To the Director of the Hospital of the District association of Swabia,
Kauf beuren/Bavaria.
Potsdamer Platz 1.
Dear Director,
By order of the Reich Defence Commissioner I must remove mental cases from your institution and from the Branch at Irrsee to another institution. A total of 140 persons are to be transported, 70 on 4th June and 70 on 5th June. I forward you here-
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with Transport Lists Nos. 8, 9, 10 and 11 in triplicate. The additional names on the lists are intended for possible deficits (discharged meanwhile, died, etc.).
The marking of the patients is most suitably done by means of a strip of adhesive tape, on which the name is written in ink-pencil, to be pasted between the shoulder blades. At the same time the name is to be put on an article of clothing.
The hospital reports and personal histories are to be prepared for the transportation and to be handed to our Director of Transport, Herr Kuepper, in the same way the personal possessions of the patients, as well as money and articles of value.
I enclose property information cards and information cards as to the defrayer of the expenses, which, accurately filled out, must be handed in at the time of transportation. Money and articles of value, besides being noted on the property information cards, must also be noted on separate special lists (in duplicate). Transportation takes place:
Oh 4th June 8.46 a.m. from Kaufbeuren—70 patients.
On 5th June, 8.46 a.m. from Kaufbeuren—70 patients.
Our director of transport, Herr Kuepper, will visit you the previous day, in order to discuss further details with you.
I further request you to provide the patients with food (2-3 slices of bread and butter each and some cans of coffee).
[Pencil note illegible]
Heil Hitler!
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Public Utility Ambulance Transportation G.m.b.H.
PROVINCIAL ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL WELFARE
SWABIA.
Address: Augsburg 1, P.O. Box Regierungspraesident
Tel No. 5842 Cashier's Office: Principal Govt. Cashier's Office Augsburg.
Post Office check account:
Munich No. 1624 Enclosures:
Director: Dr. Faltlhauser, of the Hospital, Kaufbeuren.
Your reference: 2080. Your letter of 13.11.40. Our ref: (to be given always) II-B-7-2.
Augsburg, 6.5.1941
Concerning the transfer of patients.
I have the honour to inform you that the female patients transferred from your institution on 8.11.1940 to the institutions in
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Grafeneck, Bernburg, Sonnenstein and Harthein all died in November of last year.
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No. 5255 c 39
Ministry of State of the Interior.
Obérregierungsrat Gaum.
Munich, 24th November 1942 . To the Director of the Hospital,
Kaufbeuren, Obermed.Rat
Dr. Faltlhauser.
To Head Physician Dr. W. Leinisch Guenzburg.
Re letter of 13.11.1942.
Dear Doctor,
In your letter of 13.11.1942 you requested me to send suitable epileptics for the carrying out of your research work. I had an opportunity of discussing this with the Obermedizinalraeten Dr. Faltlhauser and Dr. Pfannmueller. Both will willingly deliver you suitable patients. For various reasons patients from the Institution at Kaufbeuren are primarily to be chosen. If this institution has no suitable material, I agree to the transfer of patients from Eglfing-Haar to Guenzburg for your research work. I request you to get into touch with Dr. Faltlhauser.
Heil Hitler!
(Sd.) GAUM.