perhaps as a result of Himmler’s April order that only the insane should in future be selected for death – or, as he put it, ‘selected in the context of operation 14f13’ – that Treite had decided to set aside a special room for the ‘mad’. Perhaps it was also part of Treite’s attempt at reorganisation, given the growing number of ‘idiots’. When, periodically, trucks came secretly to take them away, it was practical to have all the women in one place.
