Lethal injection had continued in the Revier. After the big transports which took women to their deaths at Bernburg in early 1942, smaller selections were held from time to time; trucks came in the night and took away up to fifty women for gassing, probably at Auschwitz. Details of these smaller death transports, which became know as black transports – or Himmelfahrt (‘heaven-bound’) transports – are sparse, but Gerhard Schiedlausky, the camp doctor, revealed at the Hamburg trial a little of how they worked. The black transports were disguised as ‘euthanasia’ under the same 14f13 order that
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