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Instructions to concentration camp commandants, stating that only mentally ill prisoners should be euthanized (14f13), while bed-ridden patients are to be assigned work
IMT
Authors
Richard Gluecks (Inspector of concentration camps; Chief of Amtsgruppe D in WVHA, SS; SS Gruppenf.)
Richard Gluecks
German general (1889-1945); SS-Gruppenführer, head of the inspection of the concentration camps
- Born: 1889-04-22 (Mönchengladbach)
- Died: 1945-05-10 (Flensburg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Military rank: Gruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA, 1942-45) (or predecessor office)
Date: 27 April 1943
Literal Title: Subject: Action 14 f 13 in the concentration camps.
Total Pages: 1
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-1933
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 459
Document Book No: Prosecution Z: SS
Citation: IMT (page 1844)
HLSL Item No.: 451452
Notes:The author's name is not on the document; it is provided in the Ble Set, vol. 29, p. 174. The instructions originated from Himmler.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Euthanasia program (Action 14 f 13) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-1933: Circular to the Commanders of Concentration Camps on prisoners for the '14f13' operation
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-1933: Top-secret letter of the Ss economic-administrative main office to the commandants of 15 concentration camps, 27 April 1943, on the selection of insane inmates for special treatment (action 14 F 13)