!!! Higher SS Police Leader !!!
mental asylum - Euthanasia T4
Original Feldpost letter & envelope from a German doctor who was with the "Hygienic Bacteriological Investigation Center Belgrade Southeast II at the Commanding General and Commander in Serbia
There in Belgrade at the headquarters of the command was the Higher SS and Police Leader in occupied Serbia. At the time this letter was written, this was August Meyszner, SS-Gruppenführer and Lieutenant General of the Police. He was jointly responsible for the mass murder of the Jewish population in Serbia and was executed in Yugoslavia after the end of the war.
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1. Feldpost letter
On the envelope is a Field postmark from October 30, 1942 and the stamp print of the Hygienic Bacteriological Investigation Center Belgrade Southeast II at the Commanding General and Commander in Serbia. On the back the stamp print of the Higher SS and Police Leader Southeast II
!!! Receiver was a German girl who worked in the "Mental asylum" in Erlangen !!!! This Institute was also known as "Hupfla". In this mental home, the euthanasia method t 4 was used. Due to the "Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring" of 1934, mentally ill people were forcibly sterilized there. The procedure was performed on a proven 107 patients.
From July 1940, inmates from the nursing home were taken to the well-known killing stations in Pirna and Hartheim. In Erlangen, 908 patients were deported and murdered in a total of seven transports. The first two transports on 1 and 5 November 1940 went to Pirna-Sonnenstein, the other five transports to Hartheim near Linz.
Previously, on September 16, 1940, 21 Jewish patients had already been transferred to the Eglfing-Haar institution, which at that time served as a collection facility for all Jewish patients in Bavaria. From there they were probably deported to the Hartheim killing centre and murdered with gas. !!!
The doctor wrote the following lines:
Feldpost to Miss Clär Winkler in Inkofen-Neufahrn. lower Bavaria "Mental asylum Erlangen
Received: Erlangen: November 9, 1942, signed by nurse Gudrun
Sender: Winkler, Feldpost # 46313
October 29, 1942
My dear Clär,
Now some things are clearing up. Today I received a letter dated September 29, 1942, which you wrote together with Schneck. I thought you might have forgotten me. Why the letter took so long would interest me. It was postmarked in Inkofen on 29 September.
I wrote to Ludwig Zettl a long time ago and sent him a detailed drawing. Hopefully it won't just be an enthusiastic promise, because I know him very well. If you ever come to PF, please go to him and ask.
Apart from that, I'm doing quite well and a transfer is up in the air. Now we've finally got some help after 6 requests. She is not as nice as the last one, but it works and we're happy, especially as it's a regular owner. We are very happy about it.
What other news do you have? Will that.... Illegible.... still finished? Do you dance a lot? How is Beral doing? Send him greetings from me. Now dear Clär, thank you again for the letter. Warm greetings to you and Hans. Your Pepp
2. Envelope without letter
On the envelope is the stamp print of the Higher SS and Police Leader Southeast II"
The receiver address reads:
Clär Winkler, teacher, Inkofen near Rottenburg via Neufahrn in upper Bavaria (Crossed out)
Mental asylum Erlangen
Erlangen, December 13, 1942, signed by nurse Marianne
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