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Letters and memorandum concerning Sigmund Rascher's polygal experiments and the secrecy of experiments in concentration camps
Authors
Sigmund Rascher (Dr., SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer)
Sigmund Rascher
German Schutzstaffel doctor
- Born: 1909-02-12 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-04-26 (Dachau concentration camp)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: physician; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Sturmabteilung
- Military rank: Hauptsturmführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel (date: 1942-01-01; military rank: Untersturmführer)
Rudolf Emil H. Brandt (SS Obersturmbannfuehrer (Himmler's personal staff))
Rudolf Emil H. Brandt
German civil servant and SS officer, convicted war criminal (1909-1948)
- Born: 1909-06-02 (Frankfurt (Oder))
- Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: jurist; lawyer; stenographer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
- Member of: The Ahnenerbe
- Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
- Significant person: Heinrich Himmler (role: adjutant)
Wolfram Sievers (administrator of Ahnenerbe Society; Reich Research Council)
Wolfram Sievers
German Managing Director of the NS Association German Ancestral Heritage (Ahnenerbe) (1905-1948)
- Born: 1905-07-10 (Hildesheim)
- Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: managing director; official
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1929-01-01)
- Member of: Schutzstaffel (since: 1935-01-01)
- Participant in: Nazi human experimentation (location: Dachau concentration camp); Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-01-20; role: affiant, defendant, witness)
- Significant person: Helmut Poppendick (role: colleague); Kurt Wehlte
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
Oswald Pohl (Chief of WVHA (SS Econ. and Admin. Main Office); Lt. General Waffen SS)
Oswald Pohl
German SS functionary, head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, convicted war criminal (1892-1951)
- Born: 1892-06-30 (Duisburg)
- Died: 1951-06-07 1951-06-08 (Landsberg Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung
- Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant); Operation Reinhard; Pohl Trial (role: defendant)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Date: 15 September 1943
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Codes: NO-611 , NO-612 , NO-613 , NO-614 , NO-615 , NO-616
Citations: NMT 1 (page 955), NMT 1 (page 961), NMT 1 (page 962), NMT 1 (page 964), NMT 1 (page 966), NMT 1 (page 963), NMT 4 (page 547)
HLSL Item No.: 1828
Notes:This Staff Evidence Analysis of six documents was prepared by Bruno Heilig on 15 Oct 1946. In order, the documents are by Rascher (15 Sep 1943); Brandt (29 Nov); Sievers (1 Feb); Grawitz (17 Feb); Pohl (16 Feb); Sievers memo (10 Feb 1944).
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NO-615: Letter from Pohl to Rascher re "Polygal" experiments.