at the same time, ober fuhrer recalled that back in the forties, before the start of the invasion operation“euthanasia to be carried out using carbon monoxide. this method was tested in new products. from the materials of the trial in the case of atrocities committed by the nazi invaders in belarusian ussr 15 january 29 , 1946. testimony of witness akimova, a doctor at the minsk psychiatric hospital. it was september 18, 1941. 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 destroy