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Letter to Heinrich Himmler concerning the "K-Fabriken" [poison gas factories]

Authors

Karl Franz F. Brandt (Dr., Commissioner for Health, Gruppenfuehrer Waffen-SS)

Born: 1904-01-08 (Mulhouse)
Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: physician; politician; surgeon
Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
Member of: Schutzstaffel (since: 1934-07-29); Sturmabteilung (since: 1933-01-01)
Participant in: Aktion T4; Nazi executions of ill people; Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
Significant person: Adolf Hitler (date: 1942-01-01; role: personal physician; since: 1934-01-01); Herbert H. Meyer (role: defendant, interrogator); Paul Rostock (role: superior; since: 1944-02-01); Robert Servatius (role: criminal defense lawyer, defendant)

Date: 09 June 1944

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: German

Evidence Code: NO-16a

Citations: NMT 1 (page 1040), NMT 4 (page 646)

HLSL Item No.: 511

Notes:There are three different versions of this typescript, all with the same text; the most legible one is digitized.