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- Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Gassings in Germany resume...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.090003.9831@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 09:00:03 GMT
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- Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA
- Keywords: 14f13,Seraphim,Mauthausen,Hartheim
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- File: 14f13.02
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- "The 14f13 program went through several changes in focus over its period of
- operation. Its emphasis shifted almost immediately from the mentally ill
- (if that emphasis ever actually existed) to political prisoners, Jews,
- Poles, draft evanders or those deemed militarily unsuitable, those guilty
- of `racial' crimes, habitual criminals -- until the mentally ill became
- hardly relevant. Yet in March 1942, an SS directive went out to camp
- commandants emphasizing that prisoners capable of work were _not_ to be
- included under 14f13. (The decision to keep workers may have been somewhat
- affected by the fact that remaining T4 facilities were full.) And in April,
- as more camp inmates were being pressed into armaments work, commandants
- were even told that only the truly mentally ill were to be selected for
- `mustering out' (Ausmusterung). Even the bedridden could be given
- appropriate tasks. ...
-
- According to Dr. Hand-Guenther Seraphim, an expert witness at several
- postwar trials, `ruthless extermination' was more likely to have been
- pushed by the 14f13 physicians' committees, with their bureaucratic
- location in Hitler's Chancellery, than by the concentration camp
- administration.<15> This may well have been true through most of the
- program's history. In early 1944, however, 14f13 entered something of
- another phase as the war continued to take its human toll. The camp at
- Mauthausen ... had become severely overcrowded and suffered from
- increasingly unsanitary conditions. The assistance of the nearby facility
- at Hartheim was thus requested. Since the need here was simply for space,
- there were no questionnaires or experts. Camp personnel made delections,
- and htose killed included slave laborers from the East, Russian prisoners
- of war, Hungarian Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, and above all Muselmaenner.
- [`Musselman' or `Moslem' was camp jargon for the living corpses who were so
- named, according to Hermann Langbein, because `when one saw a group of them
- at a distance, one had the impression of praying Arabs'<16>]
-
- Hartheim also received shipments from Dachau and Ravensbruck. Even
- prisoners who might have worked were eliminated in this situation. Gold
- dental work was removed and sent to the T4 center. Apparently so many
- prisoners were designated for killing that gassing was resumed at Hartheim.
- The facilities there were finally dismantled in December 1944, at which
- time the turn-of-the-century Renaissance castle became a children's home,
- intended to camouflage what had happened there. At Hadamar, this was the
- point at which slave laborers from the East, diagnosed categorically as
- `tubercular,' were being injected on SS orders.<17>
-
- <15> Seraphim, "Special Treatment" [3]
- <16> Langbein, Menschen in Auschwitz (Vienna: Eropaverlag, 1972), p. 114
- <17> Klee, "Euthanasie"[6],pp. 352-55; Kogon, Massentoetungen, pp. 77-78
-
- Extracted from---------------------------------------------------
- THE NAZI DOCTORS: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide.
- Lifton, Robert Jay, London: Papermac, 1986 (Reprinted 1990)
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