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Letter to Dr. Guertner concerning letters and reports on the deaths of nursing home inmates [euthanasia program]
IMT
Authors
Hans H. Lammers (Dr., Chief of Reich Chancellery)
Hans H. Lammers
German jurist, Nazi politician, and Head of the Reich Chancellery (1879-1962)
- Born: 1879-05-27 (Lubliniec)
- Died: 1962-01-04 (Düsseldorf)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; jurist; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German National People's Party (until: 1932-01-01); Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Ministries Trial (role: defendant); Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant, witness)
- Significant person: Adolf Hitler (role: superior); Karl Brandt (role: colleague)
Date: 02 October 1940
Literal Title: Letter from Dr. Lammers to the Minister of Justice on the Deaths of Nursing Home Inmates
Defendant: Wilhelm Frick
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: Multilanguage
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-621
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 715
Document Book No: Prosecution LL (Frick)
Citation: IMT (page 2859)
HLSL Item No.: 453318
Notes:The text is in English first, then German.
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-621: Letter from Lammers to Guertner on Material on Killing of the Insane
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-621: Secret letter from Lammers to the Reich Minister of justice Gurtner, 2 October 1940, acknowledging the receipt of material on the deaths of inmates of insane asylums
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-621: Letter LAMMERS-GUERTNER 2.10.40.
Letter from Lammers to Guertner 17 re killing of insane.
Blue Series Subject Index
PS-621: EUTHANASIA -- Responsibility of the Reich Ministry of the Interior