NOTE
To the file.
Subject: Ottilienheim Absberg.
Dr. Hefelmann, Berlin, informed me by telephone that the transfer of the sick from the Ottilienheim was not carried out by the directive of Berlin, but by the directive from the Bavarian State Ministry, Munich, Regierungsrat Gaum.
Furthermore, he told me, that the bearer of sovereignty [Hoheitstraeger] could not be included, since the regulation does not call for that.
Nürnberg, 5 March 1941.
/s/ Sellmer /t/ Sellmer 297/12
[Seal]
Gau Staff Office Sel/Pf. 5 March 1941
To the Kreisleiter Party Member Michael Gerstner W eissenburg /Bavaria Subject: Your letter of 24 Feb 1941
Alarm of the population of Absberg.
The Reich Office [Reichsstelle], Berlin, informs me that the transfer of the sick from the Ottilienheim was not carried out by Berlin, but by Munich. Therefore, I have now turned to Munich. In the meantime, I have found from the Regierungspraesident that we also raised a complaint against the ways and means of the treatment of the sick. I therefore hope, that such cross mistakes will not occur in the future.
Heil Hitler
S 297/11 [Initial: Semmler]
Gaustabsamtsleiter
602
1969-PS
NB: The specialist [Sachbearbeiter] for Bavaria is Regierungsrat Gaum in the Bavarian State Ministry in Munich. If possible we should get in touch with him. Regierungsrat Gaum will see to it, that the institutions will be cleared out as soon as possible.
Berlin, 31 Dec 1940 NW 7, Unter den Linden 72
Telephone: Local 120034
Long Distance 120037 Teletype: Local 517
Long Distance K 1517 Cable Address: Reichsinnenminister [Rubber Stamp] Kreisleiter Informed Reichministry of the Interior Ministerial Dr. Linden, log 7633/40/5100.
It is requested, to mention this official designation and subject in any further correspondence.
[Red pencil] S.6.1.41
To the Gaustabsamtsleiter, Heinrich Sellmer in Nürnberg, Gauleitung
My dear party member Sellmer!
I forward in the enclosure an incident, which deals with the affair about which you have been informed by party member Blanieenburg from the Fuehrer's chancellery. As you can see in the application of Mrs. Marie Kehr, the latter would like to have information whether it is possible by a law of the Reich, to relieve people from their incurable sufferings. I request that you investigate, whether Kehr is politically reliable, especially whether she does not have church connections. In case this should not be so, from my side, there are no misgivings, if you give Kehr the desired information orally.
Heil Hitler!
/s/ Linden
In Ink
Ortsgruppenleiter Party member Popp is of the opinion, that one can inform Mrs. Kehr. She is calm and circumspect. S
S 7 Jan 1941
297/21 2 DM
603
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Notes and messages about the transfer of the sick from Ottilienheim (euthanasia program), complaints about the action, and an inquiry from Marie Kehr on the legality of euthanasia
Authors
Heinrich Sellmer (Gaustabsamtsleiter, Nuremberg)
Heinrich Sellmer
war criminal; Gaustabsamtsleiter
- Born: 1907-01-07 (Preetz)
- Died: 1989-01-01 (Preetz)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Member of: Nazi Party; Schutzstaffel
- Military rank: Obersturmführer
- Position held: Beauftragte
Herbert Linden (M.D., Ministry of the Interior)
Herbert Linden
Ministry of Interior official (Nazi Germany); German judge (1899-1945)
- Born: 1899-09-14 (Konstanz)
- Died: 1945-04-27 (Berlin)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; official; physician; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Aktion T4 (role: administrator)
- Position held: Judge of the People's Court
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/32384263
Date: 05 March 1941
Literal Title: Subject: Ottilienheim Absberg.
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
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-1969
HLSL Item No.: 451671
Notes:PS 1969 was entered as UK exhibit 544. For a message from Kehr, see document D 906.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Euthanasia program (Action 14 f 13) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4)
Document Summary
PS-1969: Correspondence of Gaustabsamtsleiter Sellmer with other agencies on the killing of the Insane