December 1939 the castle’s old coach house was converted into a gas chamber, and over the next twelve months 10,000 mentally and physically ill men and women were bussed to Grafeneck to be murdered. However, later in 1940 buses belonging to the ‘Limited Company for the Transport of Invalids in the Public Interest’ began to attract attention, and a local judge reported serious unrest. ‘For several weeks gossip has been circulating in the villages around Grafeneck that things cannot be right at the castle,’ he wrote. ‘Patients arrive but they are never seen again, nor can they be visited, and
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