“For the planning, attention must be paid to different points of
view of a practical, political, and psychological nature.
Considering it most soberly, the simplest way would be the
following: Aided by the X-ray battalion [Roentgen Sturmbann] we
could reach the entire population, German and Polish, of the Gau
during the first half of 1943. As to the Germans, the treatment
and isolation are to be prepared and carried out according to
the regulations for Tuberculosis Relief [Tuberkulosehilfe].
“The approximately 35,000 Poles who are incurable and infectious
will be ‘specially treated’ [sonderbehandelt]. All other Polish
consumptives will be subjected to an appropriate cure in order
to save them for work and to avoid their causing contagion.
“According to your request I made arrangements with the offices
in question, in order to start and carry out this radical
procedure within half a year. You told me, that the competent
office agreed with you as to this ‘special treatment’ and
promised support. Before we definitely start the program, I
think it would be correct if you would make sure once more that
the Fuehrer will really agree to such a solution.
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“There can be no doubt that the intended program is the most
simple and most radical solution. If absolute secrecy could be
guaranteed, all scruples—regardless of what nature—could be
overcome. But I consider maintaining secrecy impossible.
Experience has taught us that this assumption is true. Should
those sick persons, having been brought, as planned, to the old
Reich supposedly to be treated or healed, and they actually
never return, the relatives of those sick persons in spite of
the greatest secrecy would some day notice ‘that something was
not quite right’.
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“Therefore, I think it necessary to explain all those points of
view to the Fuehrer before undertaking the program, as, in my
opinion he is the only one able to view the entire complex and
to come to a decision.”
The prosecution will introduce evidence to show that the program was in
fact carried out at the end of 1942 and the beginning of 1943, and that
as a result of the suggestions made by Blome and Greiser, many Poles
were ruthlessly exterminated and that others were taken to isolated
camps, utterly lacking in medical facilities, where thousands of them
died.