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Defense Documents
 Doc. No.  Def. Ex. No.  Description of Document  Page
 Blome 14 Blome
Ex. 6
Extracts from a report on the German Tuberculosis Conference of 18 to 20 March 1937, at Wiesbaden.  777
 Blome 1 Blome
Ex. 8
Extracts from the affidavit of Dr. Oskar Gundermann, 28 December 1946, stating that Blome opposed the plan to exterminate tubercular Poles and that the plan was never carried out.  778
   
Testimony
Extract from the testimony of defendant Blome. . . . . . . . . . . . . 780



  TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NO-247
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 197
 
LETTER FROM KOPPE TO RUDOLF BRANDT, 3 MAY 1942, CONCERNING THE KILLING OF TUBERCULAR POLES
 
The Higher SS and Police Leader on the Staff of the Reich Governor in Poznan,
In Military District XXI [Wehrkreis XXI], Journal
No. 132/42 g
  Poznan, 3 May 1942
Fritz-Reuter Street, 2a
Tel: 6501-05
   
 Secret
 
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

 


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