War crimes Philipp Bouhler

rudolf heß, heinrich himmler, bouhler, fritz todt , reinhard heydrich (from left), listening konrad meyer @ generalplan ost exhibition, 20 march 1941

bouhler responsible killing of disabled german citizens. order of hitler (backdated 1 september 1939), bouhler karl brandt developed nazis euthanasia program, aktion t4 in mentally ill , physically handicapped people killed. actual implementation supervised bouhler. various methods of killing tried out. first killing facility schloss hartheim in upper austria. knowledge gained euthanasia program later applied industrialized annihilation of other groups of people, such jewish people.

in 1941 bouhler , heinrich himmler initiated aktion 14f13. bouhler instructed head of hauptamt ii ( main office ll ) of hitler s chancellery, oberdienstleiter viktor brack implement order. brack in charge of various front operations of t4.

the scheme operated under concentration camps inspector , reichsführer-ss under name sonderbehandlung 14f13 . combination of numbers , letters derived ss record-keeping system , consists of number 14 concentration camps inspector, letter f german word deaths (todesfälle) , number 13 means of killing, in case, gassing in t4 killing centers. sonderbehandlung ( special action —literally special handling ) euphemistic term execution or killing.

in 1942, bouhler published book napoleon – kometenbahn eines genies (napoleon – genius s cometary path), became favorite of hitler s. had published national socialist publication kampf um deutschland (fight germany) in 1938.

death

bouhler , wife, helene, arrested american troops @ schloss fischhorn in bruck near zell-am-see on 10 may 1945. thereafter, both committed suicide. wife helene jumped window @ schloss fischhorn. on 19 may 1945, bouhler used cyanide capsule while in internment camp @ zell-am-see. couple had no children.

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