Statement of Lammers, expert in constitutional law. (Tr. p. 2678-9.) According to that document the form chosen was not usual, but such violation did occur and flaws were adjusted. Hitler did not care about the form.
Statement of Lammers, stating that Hitler as the Fuehrer was authorized to alter the form: “I thought him authorized to do such things.” Apart from the form of the authorization which is on hand here, there existed still another version. (Tr. p. 2686.)
Statement of Pfannmueller. According to this document, the authorization contained the passage: “To the Reich Minister of the Interior.” The document was of a different form from the authorization in question. (Tr. p. 7362.)
Affidavit of Kirchert. Grawitz told the witness that there existed an authorization with the additional signature of Goering as the Chairman of the Reich Defense Council. (Karl Brandt 18, Karl Brandt Ex. 15.)
Statement of Mennecke. At the conference in 1940 the law was read word by word. (Tr. p. 1921.)
File note of the Gauleitung of Franconia dated 1 April 1940, “The Fuehrer gave the order, the law is made.” (D-906, Pros. Ex. 376.)
Publication of the authorization was not necessary for its coming into force.
Statement of Lammers says that there existed legal provisions which had not been published. (Tr. p. 2689.)
Affidavit of the Regional Bishop Wurm. Conti told the witness that there existed a law that had not been published for political reasons. (Karl Brandt 25, Karl Brandt Ex. 82.)
The obligation of secrecy does not prove the illegality of euthanasia.