testimony of witness akimova, a doctor at the minsk psychiatric hospital. an sss police officer, accompanied by a chemist, ordered dr. kitaevich to prepare about 20 patients to test the effect of some gas. it was ordered to bring a bathhouse into the premises, near which there were trucks and cars, a hose ran from the car to the doors of the bathhouse, another pipe went from the window of the bathhouse to the generator of another car, the bathhouse was hermetically closed, half an hour later the germans opened the doors of the bathhouse and began to throw corpses. gauleiter kube insisted on his own: everything is cumbersome, technically inconvenient plan, pipes, hoses, inconvenience for the executioners, and all this for the sake of destroying small groups. nebe unfolded in front of gauleiter the received materials with diagrams of the installations that were proposed by the developers of the gas method of killing. they have proven their effectiveness in poland and germany. they invited a chemist, it was necessary to listen to the opinion of a specialist. t