Power Of Attorney And Cashing Checks

19 - "The stay mentally broaches people in shelters, etc. can very easily lead to inconveniences" ...

is striking in the context of the "Aktion Brandt" as a new wave of a controlled liquidation of the mentally ill, first the high number of transfers in 1943.

Hatten 1941 total of 541 patients - of which 350 patients in direct relation to the measure T 4 - to leave for Gütersloh, the figure drops in 1942 to "only" 52 transfers. In 1943, the number of patients rises abruptly moved on 712th 649 of these 712 patients were transported in Gütersloh further east stations.

The first indication of planned transfers included a copy of the Circular of the Reich IVg 8958/43-5100 Ministry of the Interior to the governor in Minden, 11 May 1943:

"Re:.. Transfer of prisoners in the medical and nursing institutions of air-threatened areas


At present be carried out on a larger scale transfers of mentally ill people from endangered areas in other institutions, such as recent. Experience has shown looking for relatives, the transfer of patients to avoid the fact that they take against medical advice to go home. After a short time then the patients of the institution be transferred again.
As much as the dismissal of the mentally ill from the institution is desirable as soon as their mental state permits, so lead too early dismissals, especially in endangered areas to unwanted states. Staying mentally broaches people in shelters, etc. can very easily lead to inconveniences, as they are unpredictable in their behavior. is sought dismissal on the part of members after the transfer, the patient then returned to air in the area at risk and there, where after a short time in the hospital treatment, the whole installation has been in vain.

I therefore request, the mentally ill from endangered areas - whether before, be it after the installation - fired only if they are regarded as cured or at least to be expected is that they will keep some time in freedom. Where appropriate, the dismissal refused. [Consider the input from Papa Adolf to the early dismissal of Erna K. in the wake of the forced sterilization procedure] When mentally ill as a result of the particular case given statutory requirements (eg, police training because of public danger, etc.) by force may be retained in the institution, is easily the basis for the rejection of applications for dismissal. In the absence of such a basis, the warden for the area bring the institution existing legal provisions concerning the forcible detention of mental patients in closed institutions should apply. if needed, is here also the assistance of the police are to take advantage. "

Reich Ministry of the Interior
signed i. A. Dr. [med Fritz] Cropp

The concrete preparations for the implementation of new shipments began in September 1943.

At the direction of the Provincial Federation of the institution, all patients were recorded Gütersloh from registration sheets and divided into three groups. According to available it was at

Category I: " to constantly care, especially bed-ridden, ailing, decrepit and similar ill " . was one of the prison farms since 1943, the hospital of the armed forces.

Category II : " otherwise permanently unable to work sick " .

Category III : "in house and external operational work sick" . The allocation to this group should be under the condition that was achieved under the supervision of a useful regularity of work.

More and more nursing homes that were actually designed for the accommodation of the mental health of the institution, were claimed by the armed forces. In addition to the increasing air threat has been the solid base for the upcoming transfers. It was in the future only for patients in the hospital a place capable of work were, that could be maintained above all, the hospital operation.

regulation of the Governor Kolbow, Provincial Association of Westphalia, to record all patients into 3 groups - here at the hospital Mars mountain, from 06/15/1943. - You can access the document clearly shows that it is a copy. A similar letter, the hospital Gütersloh, Director Dr. Hartwich, have received. Source: Archives LWL - Zoom: http://picmirror.de/bild.php/47676_hauptmann.jpg
image source files: charite.de

The Association requested the provincial list of patients in three groups took place on 09 September 1943. 178 men and 279 women fell into the groups I and II, 338 men and 473 women were members of the group III. According to the Institute (see correspondence in the next section, post) were to maintain the prison establishments, but only 250 men and 350 women needed. This also enabled patients in group III are fixed -. So again there was a random selection of patients is not useful working

This Relocation and thus the "disinfectant" - (killing) any decision on the respective host institutions were no more medical individual decisions, but emerged "from the file" out
"The days of medical planning amateurs. had expired "(Aly). Now had the head of the economic departments of the reins and gave all the economic issues take precedence. "(Mäckel, Dissertation: Prof. Fri Nitsche, p.96) The settlement officials have now ruled solely on the basis of the established working capacity data and due to the required hospital bed numbers. . This happened at the desk - on location - and possibly even with the Department physician at the institution issuing station, but decided in principle on purely economic rather than from medical point of view - and was in the departments of the old boys' "T4" and each arranged "on track". The man, a disabled man was a pure "available mass been exploited ...

On 05 October 1943 correspondence also occurs in the GEKRAT again in appearance, their central organization under the leadership of Mr. Sawall was currently not in Berlin but in Hoesel in Ratingen / Rheinland. The four departments of T4 were in different locations distributed over the whole country - from Camouflage and from air safety reasons. Thus, the Division I, whose chief was Dr. Nitsche sat, for example at the Attersee.

The entire transport organization was ranked by the code name "special action Brandt. This keyword is found on all letters of the institution to the GEKRAT Gütersloh.

This involvement of GEKRAT, which was also known since 1940 in the medical and nursing institutions, would have to rise to the suspicion that not only the air raid and thus the simulated patient protection against the effects of war for the sole reason for The move was.

Between 08 October 1943 and the 13th November 1943 left in quick succession seven carriers with a total of 649 people as part of "Operation Brandt" the institution Gütersloh. This figure exceeded the transfers in 1941 (350 patients) significantly.

moved after
08/10/1943 60 women Bernburg / Anhalt
14./15.10.1943 160 men Warta / Warthegau
10/18/1943 75 women Bernburg / Anhalt
29/10/1943 50 women Bernburg / Anhalt
12/11/1943 ; 100 women Warta / Warthegau
39 men 50 women
11/12/1943 Meseritz / Obrawalde
11/12/1943 ; 50 women Gniezno / Tiegenhof
50 men, 15 women
13/11/1943 Bernburg / Anhalt



















transfers from the Westphalian provincial hospitals from June to November 1943 (after Walter 1996, p. 764) - Source: Heinz Faulstich, hunger, death, 1998, S.411 - enlarge: click on map - marked the departure of Gütersloh and the arrival "Tiegenhof / Gniezno"

text source mainly: Rudolf Hans: Psychiatric everyday life under National Socialism, term paper, 1983 - and: Bernd Walter: psychiatry and society in of modernity, 1996