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Public Mental Health Practices in Germany
Sterilization and Execution of Patients
Suffering from Nervous or Mental Diesase
Reported by
Leo Alexander, Major, M.C., AUS
CIOS Item 24
Medical
Combined Intelligence Objectives
Sub-Committee
A. Sterilization of Patients
Suffering From Nervous or Mental Disease
1. Information Received from
Professor Dr.O. Bumke in Munich
2. Information Received From Professor Dr. Karl Kleist in
Frankfurt a.M.
3. Information Received from Dr. Wilhelm Möckel, Director
of the Heil-und Pflegeanstalt (State Hospital for the Insane) in
Wiesloch near Heidelberg
4. Information Received at the Psychiatric Clinic of the
University of Heidelberg
B. Execution of Patients
Suffering from Nervous or Mental Disease
1. Information Received from
Dr. Anton Edler von Braunmühl, at present acting director of the Heil-und
Pflegeanstalt (State Hospital for the Insane) in Eglfing-Haar, near Munich
2. Information Derived from Dr. Hermann
Pfannmüller’s Secret File
(1). Documents concerning the
killing of adult patients of the Heil-und Pflegeanstalt ("Cure and Care
Institution", ie. State Hospital for mental and nervous diseases) at Eglfing-Haar.
(2). Documents concerning expert opinions which Dr.
Pfannmüller gave on patients selected for killing in other institutions
(3). Documents concerning killing of children at the Heil-
und Pflegeanstalt - Eglfing-Haar
(4). Documents concerning killer personnel selected for
the children’s department at the State Hospital in Eglfing-Haar
(5) Letters to relatives, government agencies, banks,
insurance companies and welfare agencies concerning people who had been killed
3. Information Received
From Professor Dr. Kurt Schneider, Deutsche Forschungsanstalt for Psychiatrie in Munich
4. Information Received From Professor Dr. O.Bumke,
Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the University of Munich Medical School
5. Information Received at the Badische Heil- und
Pflegeanstalt (State Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases of the Province of Baden) in
Wiesloch, Near Heidelberg, Germany
a. Information received from
Dr. Wilhelm Möckel, Director.
b.Information received from Miss Amalie Widmann, Nurse at
the State Hospital in Wiesloch, near Heidelberg
c. Information received from Oberstabsarzt Dr. Alfred
Schwenninger, Director of the military section of the Institution in Wiesloch
6. Information Received from
Professor Dr. K. Kleist in Frankfurt On Main
7. Information Derived from a
Visit to the Killing Center for Patients Suffering from Nervous and Mental Diseases in
Hadamar, Near Limburg an der Lahn, Hessen-Nassau, Germany
a. Information received from
Dr. William Altvater, who had taken over the direction of the institution five weeks
previously, after its former director - who had administered the killing center - was
arrested by the Americans.
b. Information received from Miss Irmgard Huber, head nurse
of the State Hospital for the mentally ill in Hadamar
c. Inspection of the site of the executions
C. Summary
a. Personnel implicated on
the basis of documents found in Dr. Pfannmuller's secret files
b. Personnel implicated in Wiesloch
c. Personnel implicated in Hessen-Nassau
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