Hitler's permission to grant euthanasia to incurably sick patients. Picture taken at Nuremberg documentation centre museum.
<p>The wording of the edict in English:
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<dl><dd>"Reich Leader Bouhler and Dr. Brandt are entrusted with the responsibility of extending the authority of physicians, to be designated by name, so that patients who, after a most critical diagnosis, on the basis of human judgment [<i>menschlichem Ermessen</i>], are considered incurable, can be granted mercy death [<i>Gnadentod</i>]. -- A. Hitler"</dd></dl><p>The translated comment: "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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2008-03-09
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