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Letter to Dr. Ding concerning hormone experiments to be conducted on homosexual prisoners
Authors
Helmut Poppendieck (Dr., Race and Settlement Office; SS officer)
Helmut Poppendick
German physician, Chief of the Personal Staff of the Reichsarzt SS und Polizei (1902-1994)
- Born: 1902-01-06 (Hude)
- Died: 1994-01-11 (Oldenburg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: concentration camp guard; internist; military physician; physician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-03-01)
- Member of: Schutzstaffel (date: 1936-11-09; role: Hauptsturmführer, Oberführer, ..., Untersturmführer; since: 1934-01-30, 1934-11-09, ..., 1944-09-01)
- Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
- Significant person: Ernst-Robert Grawitz (period: 1943-01-01 through 1945-01-01; role: superior)
Date: 15 July 1944
Literal Title: Subject: Hormone Research SS Sturmbannfuehrer Dr. Vaernet.
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NO-1300
Citations: NMT 1 (page 1198), NMT 1 (page 10352), NMT 1 (page 5645)
HLSL Item No.: 2209
Notes:The page is badly torn and a small part of the text is missing. The document is mis-identified in p. 5645 of the transcript as NO 1500.
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NO-1300: Letter from Poppendick to Dr. Ding re: experimentation on Homosexual Concentration Camp Inmates