Organization. The old organization was abandoned or considerably reduced. (Compare the indictment of the Hadamar Case[[107]] regarding the liquidation office.)
The physicians were dismissed in August 1941 from the Office, Tiergartenstrasse 4.
Letter from Brack to Himmler of 23 June 1942. (NO-205, Pros. Ex. 163.) Here he refers to the former transfer of personnel and once more offers people from the remaining personnel.
It seems that the organization was now under the influence of Himmler. Karl Brandt was eliminated by the cessation in 1941.
Affidavit of Beringer. (NO-808, Pros. Ex. 425.) The witness says, “it was an open secret in the Gau that Mennecke was charged by Himmler to search the mental institutions of Germany for insane persons.”
Activity of the former organization. Registration sheet.
Letter of the Reich Ministry of the Interior of 1 August 1940. (3871-PS, Pros. Ex. 359.) According to this all sick persons are now to be reported. The letter is addressed to the private clinic of Hertz at Bonn.
Testimony of Mennecke. (Tr. p. 1902.) According to this, the program was not resumed again in its original form.
Some of the experts had retired.
The killing no longer took place by carbon monoxide but by other means and by other methods.