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272 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
13 April 1943 concerning Himmler’s visit to “installations of ‘Aktion
Reinhard.’” 818
Thus there is no doubt that euthanasia staff members were indeed
transferred to the Reinhardt camps. This fact is supposed to prove that
these camps were extermination camps for Jews. These men are said to
have built homicidal gas chambers there, similar in design to those allegedly
used under the T4 program, and to have merely replaced the carbon
monoxide cylinders by the exhaust gases from a Diesel engine.
From this point of view one cannot understand the fact that these
men, whose specialty and training were to kill innocent people, were
sent to the Russian front in the winter of 1942 in order to save the lives
of wounded German soldiers. On 12 January 1942 the physician Dr.
Fritz Mennecke wrote to his wife: 819
“Since the day before yesterday a large delegation from our organisation,
headed by Herr Brack, is on the battlefields of the East
to help in saving our wounded in the ice and snow. They include
doctors, clerks, nurses, and male nurses from Hadamar and Sonnenstein,
a whole detachment of 20-30 persons. This is a top secret.
Only those persons who could not be spared were excluded.”
Heinrich Gley, for example, was transferred from Sonnenstein to
Minsk 820 in January of 1942 together with male and female nurses from
other institutions. They were employed up to March and April 1942
“for the transportation of the wounded and of soldiers who were suffering
from chillblains,” after which they were all sent back to their original
stations. 821 Karl Schluch, too, was sent to the eastern front in the
winter of 1941 and stayed there until some time in February or March
of 1942. He had to “help bring wounded soldiers back.” 822 The same
applies to Werner Karl Dubois, who stayed at this job until April of
1942. 823
From the Holocaust perspective it cannot be explained why the euthanasia
personnel were sent out to build gas chambers for Aktion Rein-
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See Chapter 2.5.
G. Reitlinger, op. cit. (note 560), 1968, p. 135.
As part of “Osteinsatz” (Assignment East), the search for wounded German soldiers and
their transfer to Minsk army hospital for treatment.
Interrogation of Henrich Gley on 8 May 1961. ZStL, 208 AR-Z 252/59, vol. IX, pp.
1281-1282.
Interrogation of Karl Schluch on 10 November 1961. ZStL, 208 AR-Z 252/59, vol. VIII,
p. 1504.
Interrogation of Werner Karl Dubois on 16 September 1961. ZStL, 208 AR-Z 252/59,
vol. VIII, p. 1382.