TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 842-PS

THE KREISLEITER
To The Area Staff Leaders [Gaustabsamtsleiter]
Party member SELLMER, NÜRNBERG
LAUF (PEGNITZ), December 30, 1940
In addition to my last report on the situation, I report the following :
The district physician of Hersbruck, Dr. Loeffler, informs me that in Schupf near Kainsback (formerly Kreis Hersbruck) a young farmer, by the name of Koch, was turned over to an institution for sterilization, because of epileptic attacks.
A few weeks ago he wrote to his mother that he was feeling fine, and that she should send him some smoking tobacco. His mother wrote him in return that he should come back soon, as he is badly needed on the farm. It is remarked here that the young Koch was of great help to the mother Koch, a farmer's widow, as he managed the farm practically all by himself.
A week later the widow was informed that her son had suddenly died, and that she could obtain the urn containing the ashes.
As the young Koch had been known also in his neighborhood for his industry, it is natural that this "violent death" has caused great indignation.
When I proposed to district physician Loeffler to send a master mason from Osternohe for a few weeks to the institution in Ausbach for observation of his mental condition, he declared he could not take this responsibility as he did not know if same would return alive. The doctor informed me also that it was known that the commission consisted of an SS-physician with several subordinate physicians and that the "patients" were not even being examined, but judged solely by the patient's existing records. As far as he knew families refuse to send their sick members to the institutions as they do not know whether they would see them again alive.
The district physician in Nürnberg had informed him of two cases in the city of Nürnberg, where charges of murder have been preferred by relations of such patients.
The Party has up to now received neither such complaints nor accusations.
Heil Hitler! Signed : Walz Kreisleiter
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Pencil and ink notes :
"investigate"
"Dr. 'Guesbert" [ ?]
"The staff reports: No case is known. The authorities have been instructed how to act. 1-7-41."
"Party member Walz has been informed; Party member Dr. Hummel has been informed; Party member Dr. Breilig [ ?] has been informed."