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Volume I · Page 770
| other hand, they come in constant contact with the German population, they constitute a tremendous source of infection which must be checked as quickly as possible. If this is not done, the infection of large numbers of Germans and most serious damage to the health of the German population must be expected. Today already the number of cases of Germans, among them also members of the police force, becoming infected by Poles with TB is increasing. Under these circumstances, I consider the solution desired by the Gauleiter as the only possible one and ask that you inform the Reich Leader SS accordingly. With comradely greetings, | |
| Heil Hitler! Yours, [Signature] W. Koppe |
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| . | TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-244 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 201 |
| LETTER FROM HIMMLER (SIGNED BY RUDOLF BRANDT) TO GREISER, 27 JUNE 1942, CONCERNING THE EXTERMINATION OF TUBERCULAR POLES | |
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| Reich Leader SS Journal No. 1247/42 Reference: Yours of 1 May 1942, P 802/42. Bra/V. |
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| . | [Handwritten] XI 2/97 Fuehrer Headquarters, 27 June 1942 |
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| Reichsstatthalter SS
Obergruppenfuehrer Greiser, Poznan 1. Dear Comrade Greiser ! I am sorry that I was not able until today to give a definite answer to your letter of 1 May 1942. I have no objection to having protectorate people and stateless persons of Polish origin, who live within the territory of the Warthegau and are infected with tuberculosis, handed over for special treatment as you suggest; as long as their disease is incurable according to the diagnosis of an official physician. I would like to request, however |
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