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Letter to Heinrich Himmler with a report on experiments in the poison gas (Lost) program at Sachsenhausen
Authors
Ernst Grawitz (Dr., Lt. Gen. Waffen-SS, Reich Physician SS)
Ernst Robert Grawitz
German general; Reichsarzt; facilitated medical torture and experiments on Nazi concentration camp inmates
- Born: 1899-06-08 (Charlottenburg)
- Died: 1945-04-24 (Babelsberg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: concentration camp guard; internist; military physician; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel (date: 1944-01-01)
- Significant person: Ernst Kaltenbrunner (role: colleague); Leonardo Conti
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Sonntag (Dr., SS-Untersturmfuehrer)
Walter Sonntag
German physician (1907-1948)
- Born: 1907-01-01 (Metz)
- Died: 1948-01-01 1948-09-17 (Hamelin) (reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: physician; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel (date: 1939-01-01; role: Untersturmführer)
- Participant in: Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials (role: defendant); Nazi human experimentation (date: 1939-01-01; location: Sachsenhausen concentration camp)
- Significant person: Albert Pierrepoint (role: executioner); Ernst-Robert Grawitz (role: colleague); Herta Oberheuser (role: colleague)
Date: 05 January 1940
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NO-199
Citation: NMT 1 (page 1011)
HLSL Item No.: 1233
Notes:This Staff Evidence Analysis was prepared by Olga Lang on 5 August 1946. The letter is by Grawitz (5 Jan 1940); the report is by Sonntag (22 Dec 1939).
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NO-199: A report of the concentration camp Sachaenhausen re: Experiments with the treatment of wounds caused by Lost