[160] Opening statement for the prosecution, section III A, above.
[161] Hans Frank, former head of the National Socialist Legal Workers’ Association, and of the German Academy of Law, Reich Minister and Governor General of the Government General (Poland).
[162] Prior to the Hitler regime, the administration of justice was largely in the hands of the German Laender (States). When Hitler abrogated the federal system, he also centralized the administration of justice.
[163] Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor concerning Appointment of Civil Servants and Termination of Civil Service Status, (Schlegelberger 127, Schlegelberger Def. Ex. 123), is reproduced above in section IV B.
[164] According to the testimony of prosecution witness Ferber (Tr. p. 1325) Heller and his mistress were riders in a taxicab.
[165] The defendant Westphal committed suicide in Nuernberg jail after indictment but before the arraignment.
[166] Counsel refers to the testimony of the prosecution witness Karl Ferber, (31 March, 1, 3, 8 April 1947, pp. 1312–1315, 1319–1466, 1576–1630, 1665–1746). None of his testimony has been reproduced herein.
[167] Reproduced below in Section V C 2 a.
[168] Trial of the Major War Criminals, op. cit., volume I, page 275.
[169] Three of the defendants in the Medical case were tried and convicted upon charges of participation in the euthanasia program. (See United States vs. Karl Brandt, et al., Vol. I, p. 794, and Vol. II, p. 171 ff., this series.) Concerning the time when Guertner received a copy of a Hitler notice regarding euthanasia, the prosecution in the Justice Case introduced the following document (630-PS, Pros. Ex. 383), the original of which was on the letterhead of “A. Hitler” and dated Berlin, 1 September 1939: