I, Waldemar Hoven, being duly sworn, depose and state:
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_Transfer of Inmates to the Bernburg Euthanasia Station for Extermination_
I became aware in 1941 that the so-called Euthanasia Program for the
extermination of the mentally and physically deficient was being carried
out in Germany. At that time, the camp commandant Koch called all the
important SS officials of the camp together and informed them that he
had received a secret order from Himmler to the effect that all mentally
and physically deficient inmates of the camp should be killed. The camp
commandant stated that higher authorities from Berlin had ordered that
all the Jewish inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp be included
in this extermination program. In accordance with these orders 300 to
400 Jewish prisoners of different nationalities were sent to the
euthanasia station at Bernburg for extermination. A few days later I
received a list of the names of those Jews who were exterminated at
Bernburg from the camp commandant and I was ordered to issue falsified
death certificates. I obeyed this order. This particular action was
executed under the code name “14 f 13”. I visited Bernburg on one
occasion to arrange for the cremation of two inmates who died in the
Wernigerode branch (Aussenkommando Wernigerode) of the Buchenwald
concentration camp.
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TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 630-PS
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 330
LETTER FROM HITLER TO KARL BRANDT AND BOUHLER, 1 SEPTEMBER 1939,
CHARGING THEM WITH THE EXECUTION OF EUTHANASIA
[Letterhead: A. HITLER]