"4. When the meeting was over, we took the bus to Schloss Grafeneck, where we were received by the director of the establishment Dr. Schumann. We only started to work at Grafeneck in March 1940, while the male personnel had been working there before.
"5. It was one of my duties to accompany Mr. Schwenniger, who also was a member of the "Charitable Foundation for Institutional Care," to the different establishments from which we fetched patients to bring them to Grafeneck. Mr. Schwenniger, who was in charge of our transports, had the lists of names of all the patients who were to be transferred. These lists had to correspond to the lists of patients prepared by the directors of the establishments from which the patients were to be transferred. The patients who were transferred by us were not all particularly serious cases. They were, of course, mentally ill but very often in good physical condition. Each transport consisted of about seventy persons; and we used to have such transports almost every day. My actual duty in connection with these transports was that of an accompanying nurse.
"6. After their arrival at Grafeneck the patients were housed in barracks, where Dr. Schumann and Dr. Baumhardt examined them superficially on the basis of a questionnaire. These two doctors had to pronounce the final decision as to whether a patient was to be gassed or not. In individual cases the patients were exempted from being gassed. In most cases the patients were killed within 24 hours after their arrival at Grafeneck. I stayed for almost a year at Grafeneck and only know of a few cases were patients were not gassed. In most cases the patients were given an injection of 2 ccm. Morphium Skopolamin before being gassed. These injections were made by the doctor. The gassing was carried out by special selected men. Dr. Hennecks dissected some of the victimes. Insane children between 6 and 13 years of age were also included in this program.
"Then Grafeneck was closed, I was sent to Hadamar and stayed there till 1943. The same work was done at Hadamar with the only difference that the patients were no longer gassed but killed by Veronal, Luminal, and Morphium Skopolamin. Approximately 75 patients per day were killed. The director of Hadamar was first Dr. Baumhardt, the Dr. Boerneck.
"7. From, Hadamar I was transferred to Irrsee near Kaufbeuren where I continued my work. Dr. Valentin Falthauser was the director of this establishment. There the patients were either killed by means of injections or tablets. This program was carried on until the collapse of Germany.
"8. I know that in the different establishments where I was Stationed we received instructions from Mr. Blankenburg.
During my activity at Grafeneck, this establishment was visited by Dr. Karl Brandt, Dr. Conti, Reichsleiter Bouhler, and Mr. Brack. I also know that the "Charitable Foundation for Institutional Care" was connected with certain establishments at Lublin.
"(Signed) Pauline Kneissler."
THE PRESIDENT: I notice on Page 18, the last line of the first paragraph, it says "Dr. Bohne was present at this meeting," according to the document book which I have.
MR. HOCHWALD: I beg your pardon, your Honor?
THE PRESIDENT: I note that on Page 18 of the document book, the first page of Document Number NO-470, in the last complete line of the first paragraph a Dr. Bohne is referred to.
MR. HOCHWALD: No, this is not a doctor, sir. This is Mr. Bohne, who is shown on the chart as a member of the administrative office of Dr. Karl Brandt.
THE PRESIDENT: Is that intended to indicate the defendant Blome?
MR. HOCHWALD: No, this does not indicate the defendant Blome, sir. This is a different person.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
DR. SERVATIUS: Dr. Servatius, counsel for defendant Karl Brandt. Mr. President, we are here again concerned with an affidavit which was not sworn correctly; and I ask you again that this document only be admitted under the usual reservation.
THE PRESIDENT: This document will be admitted provisionally, pending the filing of a certificate showing proper authority on the part of the person who administered the oath.
MR. HOCHWALD: The next document I want to offer into evidence is Document No.-863, which will be Prosecution Exhibit 333. This document is a voluntary deposition of Prisoner of War LD 1510 Corporal Ludwig Lehner, report on the crime of murder perpetrated on children in 1939 at the asylum in Eglfing-Haar near Munich.
"In the fall of 1939 I witnessed a crime which upset even me, particularly by the way it was carried out, although at that time I was already used to many things, having left the Dachau concentration camp only a few months before. I took a vow at that time to report the matter to the authorities as soon as conditions would permit.
"At that time the public was given the opportunity to visit lunatic asylums, presumably in the framework of a very definite propaganda purpose. Having been a student of psychology in 1934 to 1938 during my professional education, I was, of course, interested in the way an asylum is run. I therefore joined one of these guided tours which, as far as I know, were, by the way, suspended soon afterwards because they aroused a reaction on the part of the public contrary to the one that was desired. (I saved the ticket of admission.)
"Facts. After a visit to several other hospital wards, the director of the asylum himself--whose name was Pfannmueller as far as I remember--led us to a children's ward. The room gave an impression of cleanliness and care. In about 15 to 25 little beds lay a corresponding number of children of about one to five years of age. In this ward Pfannmueller explained his views in detail. I daresay that I remember the following resumes rather exactly since they were, either out of cynicism or due to clumsiness, surprisingly frank: 'Those creatures (he meant the said children) of course represent for me, as a National-Socialist, merely a burden for our healthy national body. We do not kill (he may possibly have said:
'We do not handle the matter') by means of poison, injections, and so forth. That would merely provide new propaganda material for the foreign press and for certain gentlemen in Switzerland (he probably referred to the Red Cross). No, our method is much simpler and more natural, as you can see.' With these words he pulled one child out of the little bed while a nurse, apparently on permanent duty in this ward, assisted him. While he then showed the child around like a dead hare, grinning cynically, he stated with the air of an expert something like: 'It will take this one, for example, still two or three days.' I shall never be able to forget the sight of that fat, grinning man, holding the whining skeleton in his fleshy hands, surrounded by the other children who were starving to death.
"Furthermore, the murderer declared that not abrupt deprivation of food but progressive reduction of rations was applied. A lady who was also taking part in the guided tour, hardly able to control her indignation, asked if a quicker killing by injections, and so forth, would not at least be more humane. Thereupon, Pfannmueller praised his method once more as the more practical one in regard to the foreign press.
"From a certain remark, which unfortunately I cannot reproduce exactly from memory, one would conclude that in this ward children who were not insane were also being killed, namely, children of Jewish parents."
I skip the next paragraph and read only the signature "L. Lehner" on the bottom of Page 23.
DR. SERVATIUS: Dr. Servatius, counsel for the defendant Brandt. Mr. President, I just noticed that the document was merely signed but not sworn to. The witness seems to be in custody in London. I don't know for what reason. I must reserve the right to cross examine that witness; and I should like to ask you to admit this document only under the condition that the prosecution submit this witness to us.
MR. HOCHWALD: Your Honor, I respectfully submit that this document contains only corroborative evidence; and we therefore refrained from putting this witness on the stand. This document is a report from the British War Crimes Interrogation Unit in the London District Center; and the signature of the deponent was witnessed by a British intelligence officer.
I have been advised by competent British authorities that the British intelligence officer held the rank of a major or lieutenant colonel and is permitted to administer an oath.
DR. SERVATIUS: Mr. President, the facts which were just mentioned by the member of the prosecution cannot be seen from the document; and that is the essential fact. The document speaks for itself; but these facts cannot be seen from the document.
THE PRESIDENT: Will you hand up the original, please? (Docment handed to the President.) The document will be received provisionally. It does not indicate that the witness was sworn; and the authority of the certifying officer should be shown in some manner which is not indicated by the document. At least the letters "1.0." are not explained.
MR. HOCHWALD: The prosecution will make every effort, sir, to provide such an affidavit.
I turn now to Document Number NO-1135, which will be Prosecution Exhibit 334. The first page of the document is a confirmation "In accordance with the decision of the State Ministry of the Interior (Public Health Division) of 8 January 1940 I have, upon order of the Reich Association of Mental Institutions and as responsible chief of the General Patients Transport Company G.m.b. taken charge of the transfer of the patients enumerated in the list below to a Reich institution. Eglfing (date, illegible); (signature illegible), Commissioner of General Transport Company m.b.F."
I want to point out concerning Page 1 that this name "Reich Association of Mental Institutions" and the name "General Patient Transport Company G.m.b.H." are two of the three code names which appear on the chart, in the middle of the chart there on the wall.
The next page, Page 2 of the document, is a transfer memorandum, and reads: "Handed over were:
"1. 149 patients with their own clothing, underwear, money, and belongings.
"2. 149 files with personal records (case histories).
"3. A list of the money accounts for each patient. A receipt was made out for this purpose.
"4. A list of the names.
"Eglfing-Haar, 30 August 1940. Signature: Oberschwester Lotte Zeitz."
DR. HOCHWALD: Page 3 of the Document Book to page 8 of the Document Book is Transport list No. 2, Dispatching Institution: Eglfing-Haar Carried out on 30 August, 1940, and on page No. 8 of the Document shows 150 persons were transferred.
The next page is again a compilation and there again these code names appear, signed in Eglfing Haar, by the Commissioner of the General Transport Company, m. b. h.
We have another transfer memo on page 10, of 121 female persons with their own clothing, and underwear, as well as other belongings, and (2) 121 files with cover, (case histories with personal record), (3), a list of the amount of money, (4) a list of valuables, (5) a list of the names, signed at Eglfing-Haar, 3.9.1940, signature: Oberschwester Lotte Zeitz.
And on pages 11 to 16, we have Transport List No. 3, carried out on 3 September, 1940, and on page 16 of the document, page 40 of the Document Book, it shows 122 persons were transferred.
Page 17 gives three lists, two lists of women and one list of women of the Jewish race, to which is attached the name of Israel. In Nazi Germany every Jew had to use his middle name and the name of Israel or Sarah. I want to draw the attention of the Tribunal to No. 7 of the first list, Silberberg Helmuth Israel, Poland, a foreign national, and No. 3 of the women's list, Goldmann Rebekka Sarah, from Poland, and No. 13 of the men's list the name of Bunsel Rudolf Israel from Bohemia and Moravia was crossed out. As this document shows the 16 male and 19 female Jews were transferred on the 20th of September, 1940.
Page 18 is the 8th transport list, carried out on 23 September, 1940, and names the tubercular and insane women of Eglfing-Haar, (handwritten), and shows twelve women, twelve women in all, and a handwritten note on the bottom: "The above patients received today: The transport loader of the General Patients Transport, G.M.B.H. Eglfing/Haar, 23 September, 1940 (signature - Dr. Baummerr.)" Page 19 is another confirmation made out on 3 October, 1940.
Here the same code names appear and it is signed again by the Commissioner of General Transport Company, m.b.h. Kraus.
Pages 20 to 22: 9. Transport List No. 5, carried out on 20 September 1940, 88 persons were listed, but there is a note that 11 of these patients were from Klingenmuenster, and three have died, therefore 74 totally, that means 74 totally from Eglfing-Haar.
Pages 23 to 26 are names on Transport list No. 4, carried out on 20th September, 1940, and 102 persons, as page 26 of the document book shows, were transferred.
Page No. 27 of the document to page No. 39, is Transport List No. 4, carried out on 11 October, 1940, and contains 79 names, one deferred, therefore 78.
DR. FROESCHMANN: Counsel for Dr. Viktor Brack.
I should like to point out that in our document book this list cannot be found, and we are not in a position to follow the statements of the Prosecutor.
DR. HOCHWALD: I am sorry, Your Honors, I haven't checked the German Document Book. The lists will be handed to the counsel for defense as soon as they are available.
THE PRESIDENT: Counsel will expedite as much as possible the furnishing of this list to the defense counsel, and the completion of this document book, which is evidently incomplete, and the copy to be furnished defense counsel.
DR. HOCHWALD: I shall proceed in the presentation of Document No. 1135, page 31 of the document, page 55 of the document book, which, Your Honors, is another confirmation made out in Eglfing-Haar, on the 28 of November, 1940, and is again signed by the Commissioner of General Transport Company, m. g. H,. this time by D. Hennecke.
Page 32 gives the 13th Transport list, No. 7, carried out in EglfingHaar, on 28 November, 1940, listing 16 persons.
Page 33 of the document is another confirmation dated 2 December, 1940, and again signed by the Commissioner of General Transport Company, m.b.H.
Page 34 of the document is transport List No. 8, carried out on 2 December, 1940, listing 16 persons, and page 35 is another confirmation, dated 17 January, 1941, and is again signed by the Commissioner of General Transport Company, m. b. H, this time by E. Kuepper.
Pages 36 to 38 is the 15th Transport List, No. 8, carried out on 17 January, 1941, listing 73 persons.
Pages 39 to 41, is the 15th Transport List No. 9, carried out on 17 January, 1941, listing 80 persons, and page 42 is a confirmation of the same thing as I have already read into the record, and is signed, Eglfing-Haar, 25 April 1941, with a typewritten note: "The Commissioner of the General Patients! Transport," signature, E. Kuepper.
Page 43 gives a list of the 25th of April, 1941, a list of men, listing 37 persons, and pages 44 to 46, are a transport list of the 26th of April, 1941, this time women, 96 persons were listed.
Page 47 is another confirmation. That has on the top a handwritten remark, 19th transport, signed Eglfing, 29 April, 1941, by E. Kuepper, The Commissioner of the General Patients! Transport, G.m.b.H.
Pages 48 and 49, give a transport list carried out on 29th April, 1941, listing 57 persons.
Pages 52 to 54, are Transport List No. 20, listing women, carried out on April 29th, 1941, 77 names.
Page 57 is Transport List No. 21, carried out on 29 April, 1941, listing 32 persons, and page 58 is Transport List No. 24, carried out on 29 April 1941, listing 24 persons.
Page 59 is another confirmation, dated the 20th of June, 1941, signed by the Commissioner of the General Patients Transport, G. m. b. H.
Page 60 is Transport List No. 21, carried out on 20 June, 1941, listing 22 persons.
I turn now to Document No. 1133, which will be Prosecution Exhibit No. 335. 1545
THE PRESIDENT: Is that Document found on page 86?
DR. HOCHWALD: Page 86 of the English Document Book, yes.
THE PRESIDENT: The number of the Document is 1133, the number is imperfect?
DR. HOCHWALD: 1133 as appears from the second page, "State Ministry of the Interior, Munich, 12 November, 9141, pencilled note illegible, Registered:
"To Director Dr. Pfannmueller, or his Deputy of the Asylum.
Eglfing-Haar "Subject:
Transfer of patients in the asylums.
"The present situation necessitates the transfer of a large number of patients in the asylums. By order of the Reich Defense Commissar, I order the transfer of 120 patients from your institution. The transfer will probably take place on 24 October, 1941, the Charitable Patient Transport Corp. in Berlin, and/or its transportation manager, will contact you with regard to the selection and the picking up of the patients, which will take place on my order.
"The transport is to be prepared by the delivering institution. In case the institution has no railroad siding, the transportation of the patient to the next railroad station is to be done by the institution. Restless patients are to be treated by adequate means for a trip of several hours. The patients, as far as possible, are to be handed over in their own underwear and clothing. Their entire private property is to be sent along with them well packed. In so far as they have no private clothing, the delivering institution is to loan underwear and clothing.
"The personal records and case histories of the patients are to be handed over to the man in charge of the transport. Those who pay the costs are to be informed by the delivering institution that further payments beyond the day of the transfer are to be suspended until they are requested by the receiving institution. In cases where the patients are committed by the courts this information is to be transmitted to the penal authorities, along with with the file number.
The next of kin will be immediately notified of the transfer by the receiving institution. If in the meantime a relative should inquire of the delivering institution, the latter is to reply, if the name of the receiving institution is not known to it, that the patient was transferred by order of the competent Reich Defense Commissar. Besides, the new institution will contact the relatives as soon as possible.
On behalf of (Signature) illegible."
The third page of the document is ?again a certificate, which is similar to the certificate which we presented in document no. 1135, signed Eglfing, 24 October, 1940, E. Puppe, For the Charitable Patients Transport Corporation.
At pages 4 to 7 of the Document are the 11th Transport List No. 5, completed on 24 October, 1940, listing 120 persons.
That finishes the Document Book No. I.
DR. SERVATIUS: Mr. President, in my Document Book this list does not seem to be complete. It stops with No. 97 and there should be 120 names. Maybe the Prosecution can clear that up.
DR. HOCHWALD: There is one page missing. I presume that in the copy of Dr. Servatius one page, which is the last page of the document, is missing
DR. SERVATIUS: I shall receive the rest of the names.
DR. HOCHWALD: I want to present, if Your Honors please, Document Book No. 17, and as the first part of Document Book No. 17, which I shall take up now -
THE PRESIDENT: Before we get to the opening of this Document the Tribunal will recess, and requests that the Prosecution during the recess period be ready to show to the Tribunal the original of Document No. 1063. If the document is convenient, the Prosecution will hand it to the Tribunal at this time.
DR. HOCHWALD: If the Tribunal please, I want to read from page no. 4.
THE PRESIDENT: We have stated that the Tribunal will now recess but I have asked that the original document No. 1063 be submitted to the Tribunal now before the recess.
DR. HOCHWALD: Your Honors, I have been informed that this document is in possession of the Secretary General.
THE PRESIDENT: Will you procure the document and hand it to the Tribunal during the recess in the consultation room. The Tribunal will now recess.
THE MARSHAL: The Tribunal is again in session.
DR. HOCHWALD: If the Tribunal please, I want to read from Document Book No. 17, page 24 of the Document Book, and I offer into evidence Document NO-1313 which will be Prosecution Exhibit 336: "Schwarzsee near Kitzbuchel," dated "20 August 1940."
"Dear Director, The heavy rains during the first half of my vacation had the advantage of giving me sufficient leisure for reflection, and I am very grateful to you for your great kindness and consideration in giving me this time to make up my mind.
The new measures are so convincing that I thought I could let personal considerations go by the board. But it is another thing to approve of measures of the State with full conviction, and something else to carry them out oneself, in their final consequence. I am reminded of the difference which exists between judge and executioner. Therefore, in spite of all intellectual insight and goodwill on my part, I cannot escape the realization that according to my personal nature I am not suitable for this job. As vivid as my desire is in many cases to improve upon the natural course of events, as repugnant it is to me to carry this out as a systematic job after cold-blooded deliberation and according to scientific objective principles, and not urged by medical feeling toward the patient. What has endeared to me the work in the Children's House was not the scientific interest, but the physician's urge, amidst our often fruitless labor, to help and at least to improve many of our cases here. The psychological evaluation, and the curative and pedagogic influence were always much closer to my heart than anatimical curiosities, no matter how interesting they were. And so it comes about that, although I am sure that I can preserve my full objectivity in giving expert opinions, I yet feel myself somehow tied emotionally to the children as their medical guardian, and I think that this emotional contact is not necessarily a weakness from the point of view of a National Socialist physician. However, it hinders me from combining this new duty with the one I have hitherto carried out.
"If this should force you to place the work in the Children's House into other hands, it would certainly be a painful loss to me. However, I consider it more right to see clearly and to recognize in time that I am too soft for this job, instead of disappointing you later.
"I know that your offer to me is a sign of special confidence, and I cannot honor your confidence in any better way than by absolute honesty and openness.
Heil Hitler Your very devoted (signature) F. Hoelzel (Rubber stamp): Directorate of the Eglfing-Haar Insane Asylum of the regional association of upper-Bavaria.
(Handwritten): Received 29 August 1940, 1600 hours. (Initialed) Pfannmueller."
I turn now to Document NO-1310 which will be Prosecution Exhibit 337, a draft dated September 20, 1940: "To the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Department for Health Services, Munich, Theatiner Street, "dated" Eglfing, 20 September 1940. Subject: Transfer of Mentally Ill Jews. Reference: Ministerial Decision of 4 September 1940. No. 5236 a 44. Inclosures: 1 list of Jewish Men, 1 list of Jewish Women.
"In compliance with the above-stated decision, I am turning over to you a list of the inmates concentrated in the mental institution of EglfingHaar, as far as they are full-blooded Jews of German and Polish nationalities as well as stateless Jews.
"The mentally ill Jewish inmates were transferred by the Patient Transport Corporation on 20 September 1940 to an institution serving as a collecting center. I am reporting to the State Ministry that from now on my institution will feed only Aryan mental patients. In the future I shall refuse to accept mentally ill full-blooded Jews.
"There is still one mentally ill full-blooded Jew in our institution who is a native of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia, and whose transfer to an institution of the Protectorate should be suggested as soon as possible.
(Initial: ) P" for Pfannmueller.
The Tribunal will certainly recall that I read from Document NO-1135- this list of Jews, pointing out the 2 names from Poland and the name of the Jew from the Protectorate, Bohemia-Moravia, and the No. 13, whose name was crossed from the list. This document refers to this list.
I turn now to Document NO-1312, Prosecution Exhibit 338:
"The Director of the Mental Institution of the District Association Upper Bavaria Eglfing-Haar "Contract "I have been instructed by the director of the mental institution Eglfing-Haar, Obermedizimalrat Dr. Pfannmueller, with regard to the kind of work and my duties in the special ward of the children's ward of the mental institution Eglfing-Haar, in which children of the Reich Committee for the Scientific Approach to severe Hereditary and Constitutional Diseases are confined.
I declare to carry out my duties in this ward according to the instructions issued by my chief and I confirm that my attention has been called to the fact that the treatment of the children in this ward is top secret and is to be kept as such. I have been instructed that I have been ordered absolute secrecy as to the incidents which will become known to me during the treatment of the children of this ward, and that the law provides that any breach of secrecy will be punished with the death sentence. I have been sworn to absolute secrecy by hand shake. I shall observe it most strictly always and towards everybody.
"Eglfing, 26 April 1941 (signatures:)
"Dentlemser Emma "Spindler Maria "Lang Emma The next document, Number NO-1311, which will be Prosecution Exhibit 339, is another document swearing to secrecy one of the officials of the insane asylum:
"Obligation" "I, the undersigned, have been obligated by hanshake instead of by an oath, on the part of the director, to receive and to copy matters concerning the Reich which have to be kept secret.
Such papers are of special confidential nature. I herewith undertake to keep all papers which should become known to me under the heading 'Top Secret' strictly secret, and never to give anyone knowledge of them without specific order from the director of the Institution, Dr. Pfannmueller. My attention has been called to the fact that if I should not keep this oath of secrecy, I will face prosecution by the Gestapo, and that I will have to count with the possibility of the death penalty if I should either carelessly or deliberately divulge matters which have become known to me as 'Top Secret'."
"Eglfing-Haar, 20 February 1942 (signature) "Erich Frank" This finishes Document Book No. 17.
Mr. Shiller will now proceed in submitting the evidence which is contained in Document Book No. 14, Second Part.
MR. SHILLER: If it please the Tribunal, I should now like to offer in evidence Document Number NO-1131 as Prosecution Exhibit Number 340. This document consists of a number of .....
THE PRESIDENT: Has the Tribunal received copies of that Document Book?
MR. SHILLER: I believe the Secretary General has been furnished with copies of this Document Book, Your Honor, Book 14, Part 2.
THE PRESIDENT: A search is being made for the copies of this Document Book in English. I would like to ask the Prosecution a question about Document Book Number 17-- the first document in the book, Document Number NO-471,--that was not offered in evidence this morning, Has it already been received in evidence?
MR. SHILLER: Yes, Your Honor, this is already Prosecution Exhibit Number 238.
THE PRESIDENT: Two of the copies handed to the Bench are Document Book Number 14, Part 1, while two copies are Document Book Number 14, Part. 2, We are still short two copies of Document Book, Part 2...... I was misinformed. The Tribunal has the copies of Document Book 14, Part. 2.
MR. SHILLER: The first document in Document Book 14, Part 2, is Document Number NO-1131. Is that correct, Your Honor? This is another document similar to the ones already read by Mr. Hochwald. That is, it is an order from the State Ministry of the Interior at Munich, 12 November 1940, to Director Dr. Pfannmueller, ordering the transport of 140 patients from the Institution Eglfing-Haar.
THE PRESIDENT: What is the number of this Exhibit?
MR. SHILLER: This is Prosecution Exhibit Number 340. On the next page, that is page 94, we see again a receipt, the bottom of which is dated "Eglfing, 15 November 1940" (signature) "E. Puppe, For the Charitable Patient Transport Corp". Pages 95 and 96 consist of Transport List No. 6 from Eglfing Haar, dated 15 November 1940, giving a total of 57 patients. Page 97, 98, and 99, consists of Transport List No. 7, dated 15 November 1940, with a total of 84 patients.
Turning to page 100, I now introduce in evidence Document Number NO-1132, another order from the State Ministry of the Interior. This will be Prosecution Exhibit Number 341.
On Page 101 again we have a receipt from Eglfing, 13 February 1941, (signature) E. Puppe, For the Charitable Patient Transport Corp.
Turning to page 103, pages 103, 104, and 105, consist of Transport List No. 13, completed on 25 February 1941, consisting of 77 patients.
Turning to page 107, Your Honor, pages 107, 108 and 109, consist of Transport List No. 13, completed on 25 February 1941, listing a total of 74 patients.
The next document is Document Number NO--1144, on page 110 of the Document Book, which I now offer into evidence as Prosecution Exhibit 342. This document consists of correspondence, that is, inquiries as to the whereabouts of various inmates of mental institutions:
"Copy" "November 1st, 1940 "Therapeutic Establishment of Werneck by Wuerzburg "Gentlemen:
"I learned that my mother, Frau Gertrud Sonder, is supposed to be no longer in Werneck. As her only child, and as an American citizen who has contributed to the costs of my mother's upkeep, I request you kindly to give me an indication as to the present whereabouts of my mother.
"I should be very thankful if you would give me such indication by return air mail. Please charge any eventual expenses to my privileged frozen account with the Bayerische Vereinsbank in Wuerzburg.
"Respectfully, (signed) "Hans Sonder c/o Topsy's 112-01 Queens Blvd.
Forest Hills, N.Y., U.S.A."
on the next page we find the reply:
"COPY" "Nr. 5289 "1 Enclosure "To: The Management of the Therapeutic and Nursing Establishment "Eglfing-Haar "transmitted with request to handle directly, the present location of Gertrud Sonder being unknown in this establishment.
"Werneck, 3 December 1940 "The management of the Therapeutic and Nursing Establishment of Werneck (signed) "Dr. Papst "draft "mdt.