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Authors: Nikolaus Wachsmann

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. Quote in BArchB, NS 3/425, Bl. 119: WVHA to LK, November 4, 1942. On the afternoon of October 29, 1942, the IKL informed the Dachau commandant about the plan to move most “infirmary patients” from other KL to Dachau, and made clear the murderous intentions behind this order (NAL, HW 16/11, Maurer to LK Dachau, October 29, 1942). The first of
these transports was in fact already under way. Early the same day, the Buchenwald SS had cabled Dachau that a group of 181 “debilitated and invalid prisoners” was about to depart (NAL, HW 16/11, KL Buchenwald to KL Dachau, October 29, 1942). The old program of deporting “invalids” to Dachau had never been fully abandoned, it seems, although the number of transports had declined in the wake of mass
killings elsewhere (for one transport in summer 1942, see NAL, HW 16/21, GPD Nr. 3, Pister to WVHA-D, August 24, 1942).

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