As Bouhler’s deputy he addressed a meeting at Munich, where he explained the purpose of Hitler’s decree and mentioned the draft of a law which was being prepared to give complete legislative sanctify to euthanasia—a law, incidentally, which was never in fact enacted. He represented Bouhler in April of 1941 at a meeting attended by Nazi judges and prosecutors. He testified that the Ministry of Justice had become considerably embarrassed because of the Euthanasia Program, and that he was present at the meeting for the purpose of imparting information concerning the salutary features of euthanasia to those who were present. Brack gave the Tribunal considerable information concerning the method of extermination by euthanasia, stating that the program was so designed as to render the process inconspicuous and painless. In December 1939, or January 1940, Brack, Bouhler, Conti, and some other doctors were present at the administration of euthanasia to four experimental subjects. The victims were led into a gas chamber which had been built to resemble a shower room. The patients were seated on benches and poisonous gas was let into the chamber. A few moments later the patients became drowsy and finally lapsed into a death sleep without even knowing they were being executed. On the basis of this execution “Hitler decided that only carbon monoxide was to be used for killing the patients.” According to Brack these persons were not Jews, because, as Bouhler had explained to him, “the philanthropic action of euthanasia should be extended only to Germans.” The evidence is plain that the euthanasia program explained by the defendant, gradually merged into the “Action 14 f 13,” which, briefly stated, amounted to an extermination of concentration camp inmates by methods and agencies used in euthanasia. One of the prime motives behind the program was to eliminate “useless eaters” from the scene, in order to conserve food, hospital facilities, doctors and nurses for the more important use of the German Armed Forces. Many nationals of countries other than Germany were killed. Brack’s direct connection with and participation in the execution of euthanasia is conclusively proved by the evidence in the record. MEMBERSHIP IN A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION Under count four of the indictment the defendant Brack is charged with being a member of the organization declared criminal by the judgment of the International Military Tribunal, namely, the SS. The evidence shows that Brack became a member of the SS in 1929, and voluntarily remained in that organization until the end of the war. As a member of the SS he was criminally implicated in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as charged under counts two and three of the indictment. CONCLUSION Military Tribunal I finds and adjudges the defendant Viktor Brack guilty under counts two, three and four of the indictment. BECKER-FREYSENG