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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 271 Christian Wirth, the highest-ranking officier from the euthanasia program assigned to Operation Reinhard, and Oberscharführer Josef Oberhauser. Additional people from the euthanasia program arrived in Lublin during the first months of 1942. Viktor Brack visited Lublin at the beginning of May 1942 and discussed with Globocnik the contribution of the euthanasia organization to the task of exterminating Jews.” As for the deployment of euthanasia personnel at the “Aktion Reinhardt” camps, the following documentary evidence may be brought fourth. On 23 June 1942 the organizer of the euthanasia program, SS- Oberführer Viktor Brack, sent a letter to Himmler in which he stated: 814 “In accordance with my orders from Reichsleiter Bouhler I have long ago put at Brigadeführer Globocnik’s disposal part of my manpower to aid him in carrying out his special mission. Upon his renewed request I have now transferred to him additional personnel.” Later in the same letter Globocnik’s “special mission” is identified as “the action against the Jews”. This can only mean that Brack had part of his euthanasia staff transferred to “Aktion Reinhardt.” We furthermore have documentary proof that two individual members of the euthanasia staff were present in the Reinhardt camps. The physician Dr. Irmfried Eberl served as the medical director of the euthanasia institutes in Brandenburg and Bernburg. In the summer of 1942 he was transferred to Treblinka II, where he served as the first commandant of the camp. Both the involvement in the euthanasia program and the transfer to Treblinka is confirmed by Eberl’s preserved personal correspondence, part of which has been published by his biographer Michael Grabher. 815 Secondly, Christian Wirth is mentioned as belonging to the Dienststelle of Brack in a letter of recommendation dated 21 August 1941. 816 In another letter addressed to Kuno Ther and dated 13 April 1943, Polizeimajor Christian Wirth is identified as the “responsible inspector” (verantwortlicher Inspektor) of the Reinhardt camps. 817 He is again mentioned prominently in the letter sent by Globocnik to von Herff on 814 IMT Document NO-205; quoted in Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 49), p. 17. 815 Michael Grabher, Irmfried Eberl. ‘Euthanasie’-Arzt und Kommandant von Treblinka, Peter Lang / Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main 2006. None of the letters sent by Eberl from Treblinka contains any mention of gassings of Jews. 816 Henry Friedlander, Sybil Milton, Archives of the Holocaust, Vol. 11, Berlin Document Center, part 2, Garland Publishing, New York/London 1992, Document 426 on p. 331. 817 Ibid., Document 429 on p. 334.
272 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 13 April 1943 concerning Himmler’s visit to “installations of ‘Aktion Reinhard.’” 818 Thus there is no doubt that euthanasia staff members were indeed transferred to the Reinhardt camps. This fact is supposed to prove that these camps were extermination camps for Jews. These men are said to have built homicidal gas chambers there, similar in design to those allegedly used under the T4 program, and to have merely replaced the carbon monoxide cylinders by the exhaust gases from a Diesel engine. From this point of view one cannot understand the fact that these men, whose specialty and training were to kill innocent people, were sent to the Russian front in the winter of 1942 in order to save the lives of wounded German soldiers. On 12 January 1942 the physician Dr. Fritz Mennecke wrote to his wife: 819 “Since the day before yesterday a large delegation from our organisation, headed by Herr Brack, is on the battlefields of the East to help in saving our wounded in the ice and snow. They include doctors, clerks, nurses, and male nurses from Hadamar and Sonnenstein, a whole detachment of 20-30 persons. This is a top secret. Only those persons who could not be spared were excluded.” Heinrich Gley, for example, was transferred from Sonnenstein to Minsk 820 in January of 1942 together with male and female nurses from other institutions. They were employed up to March and April 1942 “for the transportation of the wounded and of soldiers who were suffering from chillblains,” after which they were all sent back to their original stations. 821 Karl Schluch, too, was sent to the eastern front in the winter of 1941 and stayed there until some time in February or March of 1942. He had to “help bring wounded soldiers back.” 822 The same applies to Werner Karl Dubois, who stayed at this job until April of 1942. 823 From the Holocaust perspective it cannot be explained why the euthanasia personnel were sent out to build gas chambers for Aktion Rein- 818 See Chapter 2.5. 819 G. Reitlinger, op. cit. (note 560), 1968, p. 135. 820 As part of “Osteinsatz” (Assignment East), the search for wounded German soldiers and their transfer to Minsk army hospital for treatment. 821 Interrogation of Henrich Gley on 8 May 1961. ZStL, 208 AR-Z 252/59, vol. IX, pp. 1281-1282. 822 Interrogation of Karl Schluch on 10 November 1961. ZStL, 208 AR-Z 252/59, vol. VIII, p. 1504. 823 Interrogation of Werner Karl Dubois on 16 September 1961. ZStL, 208 AR-Z 252/59, vol. VIII, p. 1382.
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