To the Reich Leader SS, Personal Staff,
Attention: SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Brandt,
Berlin SW 11, Prinz Albrecht Street 8.
Subject: Poles afflicted with TB.
Dear Comrade Brandt,
May I ask that you submit the following matter to the Reich Leader SS:
The Gauleiter will shortly ask the Reich Leader SS for permission to
have Poles who have been shown to be afflicted with open TB admitted to
the detachment Lange for special treatment. This request is motivated by
the Gauleiter’s serious and understandable concern for the physical
welfare of the German people here. For there are about 20-25,000 Poles
in the Gau who, according to the doctors’ opinion, are afflicted with
incurable TB and who will not be fit for assignment to work again. In
view of the fact that these Poles live very closely crowded together,
particularly in the cities, and that, on the other hand, they come in
constant contact with the German population, they constitute a
tremendous source of infection which must be checked as quickly as
possible. If this is not done, the infection of large numbers of Germans
and most serious damage to the health of the German population must be
expected. Today already the number of cases of Germans, among them also
members of the police force, becoming infected by Poles with TB is
increasing.
Under these circumstances, I consider the solution desired by the
Gauleiter as the only possible one and ask that you inform the Reich
Leader SS accordingly.
With comradely greetings,
Heil Hitler!
Yours,
[Signature] W. KOPPE
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-244
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 201
LETTER FROM HIMMLER (SIGNED BY RUDOLF BRANDT) TO GREISER, 27 JUNE 1942,
CONCERNING THE EXTERMINATION OF TUBERCULAR POLES