Hitler's permission to grant euthanasia to incurably sick patients.<br><p>Picture taken at Nuremberg documentation centre museum.
</p><p>On Adolf Hitler's personal stationery, the edict reads:
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<dl><dd>"Reichsleiter Bouhler und Dr. med. Brandt sind unter Verantwortung beauftragt, die Befugnisse namentlich zu bestimmender Ärzte so zu erweitern, dass nach menschlichem Ermessen unheilbar Kranken bei kritischster Beurteilung ihres Krankheitszustandes der Gnadentod gewährt werden kann. – A. Hitler"</dd></dl><p>In English:
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<dl><dd>"Reichsleiter Bouhler and Dr. med. Brandt are assigned the responsibility for expanding the powers of specific doctors so that, where according to human judgment patients are incurably ill, they may be granted euthanasia following a critical assessment of their state of illness. – A. Hitler"</dd></dl><p>The handwritten comment reads: "Von Bouhler mir übergeben am 27.8.40 - Dr. Gürtner" (English: "given to me by Bouhler on 27.8. [August] [19]40; Dr. Gürtner"). 
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Franz Gürtner was Minister for Justice (Reichsjustizminister) from 1932 to his death in 1941. Philipp Bouhler was an SS-Obergruppenführer and leader of Hitler's Chancellery (Kanzlei des Führers; KdF).
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