The following is for your personal information. Please destroy this
sheet afterwards.
For some time the inmates of mental institutions have been visited by a
commission which functions on orders from some very high office. The
commission’s task is to find out which inmates should be selected for
transport to certain other institutions. The commission bases its
decision on the records of the institution. The patients who are then
transferred are examined again in the institution designated by the
commission and then the decision is made whether they should be released
from their sufferings.
The body itself is cremated and the ashes are placed at the disposal of
the relatives. Small mistakes in notifying are naturally always liable
to occur, and in the future it will not be possible to avoid them. The
commission itself is anxious to avoid all mistakes. I could give you
further information but I would like to abstain from it and beg you to
look me up when you visit the Gauleitung.
I believe that we National Socialists can welcome this action which is
extraordinarily serious for the affected individual. I beg you,
therefore, to oppose all rumors and grumblings with the necessary
emphasis by representing our point of view in regard to these matters.