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1941-12-09 Telex from Forschungsstelle A Litzmannstadt to Forschungsamt 5 A 3: “the sick from the ghetto should be “removed”. When the Stapo office asked whether Berlin had been informed about this, the response was evasive”
The telex, dated December 9, 1941, was sent from Forschungsstelle A Litzmannstadt to Forschungsamt 5 A 3, both of which…
1942-12-03 Letter from Heinrich Himmler to Arthur Greiser: “Proceeding against the sick in the intended manner, in my opinion, is not feasible”
The letter, dated December 3, 1942, from Himmler to SS-Obergruppenführer Greiser, acknowledges Dr. Blome’s concerns regarding the proposed plan to…
1942-11-21 Letter from Arthur Greiser to Heinrich Himmler: “to subject those members of the Polish community who are proven to be afflicted with open and thus incurable pulmonary tuberculosis to special treatment…do not believe that the Führer needs to be consulted…since during our last discussion regarding the Jews, he told me to proceed at my own discretion”
The letter, dated November 21, 1942, from the Reich Governor of the Reichsgau Wartheland Posen to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, discusses…
1942-11-18 Letter from Kurt Blome to Arthur Greiser: “approximately 35,000 incurable and contagious Poles would be ‘specially treated’….one day even the relatives of the patients will notice that ‘something is not right here,’ even with the best efforts at secrecy.”
While the Nazi authorities in the Warthegau were already planning the killing of Polish individuals incurably afflicted with tuberculosis, concerns…
1942-06-09 Letter from Heinrich Müller to Heinrich Himmler: “no objections to Polish nationals…afflicted with open tuberculosis, being subjected to special treatment..the implementation must be as inconspicuous as possible.”
After receiving the request from the government of the Warthegau to kill Polish nationals suffering from incurable tuberculosis through the…
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