Captain franz stangl8/2/2023 ![]() In the Dolderbach valley below Grafeneck, railway workers on the line that passed below the ramparts of the castle doffed their caps and stood with bowed heads as the convoy travelled along the parallel road, “as if a funeral were passing by.” In Pirna-Sonnenstein, Saxony, the buses were known as ‘fluster wagons’ (‘Flüsterkutsche’) because public recognition of their purpose was highly dangerous. When the sinister convoys of red buses with the painted-over windows, hired from the Reich Post Office by the Gemeinnütziger Krankentransport GmbH, abbreviated to ‘Gekrat’ (the Charitable Patient Transport Company, Ltd.), passed through towns and villages, the inhabitants knew the destinations but not the precise fate of the victims, only that they were being secretly killed. Die nationalsozialistische ‘Euthanasie’-Tötungsanstalt P (.)Ĥ In Berlin, the mysterious removal of the patients was organized by the Gemeinnütziger Stiftung für Anstaltspflege – Charitable Foundation for Institutional Care, abbreviated to ‘the Foundation’ (‘die Stiftung’), a fictitious organization that hid the direct involvement of Hitler’s private chancellery in the secret killing operation. 6 Schilter, Thomas, Unmenschliches Ermessen.When we saw that, we feared the worst.” (Als wir das sahen, packte uns ein Grauen). These clothes were in such a condition that they must have been ripped off the patients. We nurses then talked about it that these were crazy rumours – until after the first transport, when the death notices arrived and the clothing of the patients from the transport was returned to us. A judge in the city added that “serious unrest is slowly spreading among the population about these things” and that “even children brought such news from school and from the street.” 4 In the asylums of Württemberg and Baden, it seemed to the medical and nursing staff that their patients appeared to know more about what was going on than they did, as reported by a nurse at the Freiburg asylum in Baden: “They knew about these things during their outings to the town and then brought these stories back to us. ![]()
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