English Translation

14 Eger, 28.2.19422 H 84 To Mr Reichsführer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei, Berlin. Subject: Former gynaecologist Dr. Karl Schöniger from Karlovy Vary State police measures. The above one was sentenced to a total prison sentence of two and a half years and two years of loss of honour, including five months of detention, by judgment of the Landgericht Eger of l2.7.194l. Although it would have been possible, by means of a revision, to reduce substantially the number of cases brought to trial, / just as it had already been possible during the trial to acquit the further cases brought before the court, the defence has clearly decided, with the convicted party, to make the judgment final and to take the path of grace. At the same time, the woman of the condemned person, in her own name and on behalf of her two nine- and eleven-year-old children, addressed herself directly to the leader in a prayer of grace. (i) the detention centre in Eger 2.) the Chamber of the Regional Court of Eger, which pronounced the sentence. 3.) the local state medical authority in Karlovy Vary 4.) the district head of the NSDAP in Karlovad 5.) the Gauleitung of the Nazi Party in Reichenberg 6.) The Knazlei of the leader 7.) the Supreme Prosecutor at the Land Court in Eger 8.) of the Attorney General at the Oberlandgerichte in Leitmeritz and most recently 9.), the Reichsgesuddheitsführer, Secretary of State Dr. Conti. These all authorities and departments, in a procedure which lasted from July 22, 1994l to the present day, have examined and considered the request for grace and its executions in all directions through more than seven months, and have expressed themselves in detail about the references to the request of grace and the grace of the condemned, I attach a copy of the application of grace at that time.