Editing Horst Schumann (section)

==Nazi doctor==
From 1934, Schumann was employed in the Public Health Office in Halle. He was recruited to the air force as a physician in 1939. He joined the [[Action T4]] Euthanasia program in early October 1939, after a meeting with Dr. [[Viktor Brack]] in [[Hitler]]'s chancellery. In January 1940, Schumann became head of the Grafeneck euthanasia centre in Wurttemberg, where mentally ill people were gassed with carbon monoxide in the first [[Gas Chamber|gas chamber]]. In the early summer of 1940, he was ordered to the Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre. Schumann also belonged to a commission of doctors called "Action 14f13", who transferred weak and sick prisoners from Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenbürg, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, Neuengamme and Niederhangen concentration camps to the euthanasia killing centers.