WALTER REED GENERAL HOSPITAL ARMY MEDICAL CENTER WASHINGTON, D.C. August 14, 1942 SUBJECT: Disposal of Bodies of Six Saboteurs. TO: The President of the United States. THROUGH: Chief of Staff, United States Army. 1. On August 8, 1942, at 4:15 P.M., in accordance with previous secret arrangements, the bodies of: Herbert Hans Haupt Heinrich Harm Heinck Edward John Kerling Hermann Otto Neubauer Richard Quirin Werner Thiel were brought to Walter Reed General Hospital from the District Jail in two Army Medical Center ambulances. Major Robert S. Higdon, Medical Corps, was in charge of the ambulance detail. The bodies were identified by Colonel Martin F. DuFrenne, Medical Corps, and Major Thomas M. Rives, Assistant Provost Marshal, D.C., who accompanied them from the execution room. Individual name tags were attached to the bodies and they were receipted for by Colonel Paul A. Schule, Medical Corps, of the Walter Reed Hospital Laboratory Section. 2. The six bodies were stored in individual cbmpartments of the refrigerating room at the hospital morgue. An armed guard was present in the morgue day and night until the bodies were removed, to insure that the boxes were unopened and the bodies not seen by any unauthorized person. On the evening of August 10, 1942, each body was embalmed in the hospital morgue by Mr. William G. Durisoe of the Tabler Funeral Home, Incorporated, in the presence of Major Carl J. Lind, Medical Corps, of the Hospital Laboratory Section. 3. At 6:00 P.M., August 11, 1942, the bodies were placed in individual plain pine boxes, identified by name tag, and taken in a light truck, accompanied by Major Lind, Major Earland W. Layer, Medical Administrative Corps, and three armed guards to the Potters Field, Blue Plains, D.C. 4. A detail from Fort Myer, under the direction of Captain Josiah T. Showalter, Medical Corps, had prepared the graves. The bodies were receipted for by Mr. Otto J. Case, Superintendent of the Home for the Aged and Infirm and |