The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-10

might know the exact dime considers himself a perfect
 the master race, and he wanted to, leave Q pattern for posterity.
 Some of the more mature mem. bers of the commission, happen to know, were privately 8 little ronic about Hitler's almost childish enchantment with the proceedings but others were typical NazI syco- phants and the affair was conduct ed in great solemnity.
 The experts, who included spe. cialistS in phrenology and craniol- ogy, brought large and small calip- CTS and tape measures. They meas ured the breadth Of Hitler's skull above the ears.
 Just Like Napoleon
 "Just like Napoleon's," said one Of the sycophantS.
 Hitler beamed, and ordered that all the measurements and com iaents should be recorded in writ- ing.
 They measured the breadth be- tween the pupils of his eyes, the distance from his chin to his tenn ples, they recorded the breadth of his mouth amid exclamations such as "jugt like Frederick the Great
 For more than an hour this went on with Hitler ordering them,
 Yes, yes, write 1t all down."
 When the report was finished, 1t covered 130 pages.
 A performance such as this would appear to spring from more than simple, petty vanity, but rather to manifest. A profound egoisn by which he is convinced that the flesh and blood naturalization of A. Hitler should be preserved for all time.
 He is working to make the, Ger man race "ein ,herrenyolk" Ca mas- ter people,, and evidently sees him. self as a perfect, present specimen thereof. In his library are many volumes of phrenology and cranial- ogy through which he searches for the material for 8 composite of the ideal physiognomy.
 Called to Rule World
 "A book of his own original &keteheS of heads and faces entitled, Etn Herrehvolk" .developes his the&s that the Germans have been called to rule the world. It is in- tereSting that the only other people to whom he comedies a place along side the Germans as a superior peo- pie Worthy of ruling are the English and Chat because, as he shows in his Cravings, they are of Germanic StraSN. The sketches are of men and women, showing skull and face for- nations, with special reference to ears and noses.
 Another example of fIitler's con- victiony that his spirit and his body are ordained by providence to re- mann forever a symbol and guide for those who come after him. is the provision in his testament. which reposeS in the Kehlstein, that on his death his brain shall be dis- Sected.
 All preparations have been made for this in a laboratory in the Ber- lin suburb of Dahlem where there IS already a considerable collection of dissected brains, many of con- centration camp occupants, includ- ing numerous Jews. Hitler several years ago gave standing instruc- tionS to the scientists heading this laboratory to conduct dissection and research into the brains of all types or persons to try to find some pat. tern which would reveal what cre- ateS faults and virtues both in the great and in the mentally deficient. Brain Dissection Mania
 This mania of Hitler's for brain dissection, it has often been feared. might easily lead to the killing of persons for the simple purpose of studying their brains. Fantastic as It sounds, 1t is genuinely believed that Hitler has caused the death of some occupants of concentration camps to obtain their brains for the laboratory. It is known among his intimates that Hitler wants a law empowering a special commission to take the brain of anybody whom the commission judges a desirable subject, for dissection after death. This surgical prying into the se- crets of human personality, of tale ent and stupidity, virtue and sin, strength and weakness, is a domi- nant passion, apparently fed by Hitler's quest for "ein herrenvolk."
 Another phase of this race puri- flcation is the activity of the Euthanasia commission, headed when it was created, by Rudolf Hess and Philip Bouhler. Up to June, i94I. the commission had destroyed S7,O00 persons in Germany. Rough Iy, half Of these were men and half women. Seventeen per cent came from concentration camps. Tn single issues of certain Ger man newspapers, have seen death notiee after death notice revealing to the initiated that the subjects mentally defective or suffering from | some tncurabIe ailment-had been l killed by the Nazi state under Hit- | ler's euthenasia program,
 Relatives Are silent These notices stated simply that | such and such q person had sdied" after being an inmate of some ip- | stituti0n named. have talked with | the relatives of some victims, They | do not want to say much, and the | whole subjct of euthanasia is one | only for whispers, Hyp0degmlc lH- | jections, in many eases containing | q Iethal overdose Of some acens- toned drug, seems t0 be the system | often used, Presumably in each case e mixed medical and legal comS mission hes rendered aadeeision 1us- tifying the Killing,
 HltIev's sdea is that through as well as through steFl- IliEatl0n, there shell, within 20 years, ibe no more need for insane asylums r in Germany, yt was pointed out to hlm thet this policy 0i scientific