Plainly, it was the fact that the killing had become public that was faulty, not the killing itself: soon after Grafeneck was closed two new killing centres opened in Germany, but under better disguise. And not only was the T4 ‘euthanasia’ programme itself to be expanded, Himmler now planned to co-opt its gassing methods. Soon after the Grafeneck episode he wrote to the T4 chief, Philipp Bouhler, also head of Hitler’s Chancellery, asking him ‘whether and how the personnel and the facilities of T4 can be utilised for the concentration camps’.
