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Letter to Heinrich Himmler proposing the development of medicinal sterilization
Authors
Adolf Rudolf Pokorny (Dr.)
Adolf Rudolf Pokorny
Austrian-born dermatologist and doctor; defendant in the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg (1895-?)
- Born: 1895-07-26 (Vienna)
- Died: 2000-01-01 (http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/132008090ee690bc4de5d2678e695e86)
- Country of citizenship: Austria
- Occupation: agriculture (location: Chernivtsi); dermatologist; military physician; physician
- Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant); Voice of America (role: consumer)
- Significant person: Else Renatus (role: landlord); Georg Baierle (role: friend); Konrad Ritschel (role: patient); Oswald Flachsel (role: orderly, superior)
- Military branch: Austro-Hungarian Army (period: 1914-01-01 through 1918-01-01)
- Educated at: Charles University; German University in Prague Medical School; faculty of science, German University in Prague
Date: October 1941
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NO-35
Citations: NMT 1 (page 510), NMT 4 (page 517)
HLSL Item No.: 478
Notes:This Staff Evidence Analysis was prepared by Manfred Wolfson on 27 June 1946.
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NO-35: October 1941 - Pokorny to Himmler proposing experiments on criminals with caladium seguinum to be later used on 3 million Russian PW's. Pokorny had read of animal experiments by Dr. Madaus.