Germany's MINISTRY for Chechnya and Moravia, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1147, sig. 110-11/85 (damaged)

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A48 T Central Court of the Heer Berlin-Charlottenburg, 11.9.44. St.L.XI 81/44 Kaiserdamm 49/50 An f-Oberabteilung Böhmen-Mähren Prag XIX., . Yorckstraße 22. Betr.: Oberarzt Prof. Dr. Kurt S t r a u B. Reference: Dortiges Schrb. from 6 September 44 - III Az.11 b/22.8.44 /N/Kr. Tgb.No. 472/44 g. a For this purpose: An issuing order, 1 receipt. I hereby return the order for discharge dated 22.8.44 and the receipt, the latter incomplete, after the senior physician Dr. Kurt St r a u ß divorced from life by suicide on the night of 7th to 8th September 1944. Strauß committed suicide in the course of the main trial in Prague before the Central Court of the Army, at the end of the taking of evidence, but before the verdict was given. The Investigator : e.g.: Signature P. d. R. d Oberfeldrichter. W-Standartenführer.