Fuehrer Euthanasia Authorization

[ On letterhead A.. Hitler]

Berlin 1 Sept 1939

Reichsleiter Bouhler and Dr. Brandt, M. D. are charged with the responsibility of enlarging the authority of certain physicians to be designated by name in such a manner that persons who, according to human judgment, are incurable can, upon a most careful diagnosis of their condition of sickness, be accorded a mercy death.

signed : A. HITLER

[Handwritten note] Given to me by Bouhler on 27 August 1940

signed: Dr. Guertner
III a 3/ 41 g Rs /