1943 PAPER SIGNED BY T4 EUTHANSIA CHEMIST SS-HAUPTSTURMF. WIDMANN

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1943 PAPER SIGNED BY T4 EUTHANASIA CHEMIST

SS-HAUPTSTURMFÜHRER ALBERT WIDMANN

HE WAS ONE OF THREE CHEMISTS INVOLVED WITH AKTION T4 FROM ITS INCEPTION

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Original 5 July 1943 dated document signed by SS-Hauptsturmführer Albert Widmann, a chemist who was a chemical engineer and doctor who was involved in the T4 Euthanasia Program, the killing of people with disabilities that the Nazis regarded as undesirables and a burden for the German people. Nearly 300,000 people were killed in psychiatric hospitals in Germany and Austria under the T4 program. Widmann was one of three chemists primarily involved with the program. Although Widmann was not directly employed by Action T4, he and his KTI office provided the program with the needed support services. Widmann took part in the early discussions about killing methods, participated in the first Brandenburg gassing experiment, tested gassing and dynamiting in the occupied parts of the Soviet Union and, through KTI, obtained the necessary gas and poisons for T-4.

Widmann submitted the paperwork and obtained the carbon monoxide gas needed for the T4 killing centers to operate, as well as the “medicines” needed for killings in children’s wards and “wild” euthanasia hospitals within the T-4 program. These wards were established in selected hospitals, eventually at least 22 throughout the German Reich, where doctors were recruited to kill infants sent to them. This was usually done by an overdose of common medication, supplied by Widmann.

Widmann also shared his technological knowledge. While others in the T-4 program were in charge of supervising and administration, Widmann instructed and experimented with gassing techniques. In the early stages of T-4, Widmann discussed possible gassing methods with Viktor Brack to determine the best way to kill patients with gas. For example, Widmann suggested releasing gas into the hospital dormitories while the patients slept, but this idea was dismissed as impractical. Widmann appeared at Brandenburg Euthanasia Centre to administer the first gassing experiment and teach the proper gassing method (for instance, how to measure the correct dose of carbon monoxide). Widmann’s experiments with carbon monoxide inspired the development of gas vans. [source: Wikipedia]

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