Documentation from 1942-1943, including evidence from the Nuremberg Trial, regarding the building of a collection of skeletons by Nazi physicians, the expropriation of a Jewish sanitarium, and the deportation of Hungarian Jewry
- Letter sent to Eichmann by Dr. Karl Brandt, regarding the building of a collection of skeletons for the anatomy department of the University of Strassburg in 1942: instructions by Himmler, to grant the head of the department, Professor Hirt, everything he needs on the occasion of his research; transfer of Brandt's request to the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage") by the research...
File Number : 78
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation
Letter sent to Dr. Karl Brandt by the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage") research institute, regarding the need for a supply of skeletons of inmates and Jews, 1942
Order by Himmler to give SS Hauptscturmfuehrer Hirt all that he requires for the research he is conducting; need for 150 skeletons of inmates and Jews from Auschwitz that were already allotted for this purpose;
There is earlier correspondence on this subject (see file O.18/3 and O.18/50);
The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg Trial;
The source of the document: Berlin Document Center;
The document is in the books:...
Proposal by anatomy professor August Hirt, to create a collection of skulls of Jewish commissars who were killed at the Eastern front, 1942
Proposal by anatomy professor August Hirt, to create a collection of skulls for the University of Strasbourg whose source will be from the corpses of Jewish commissars who were killed at the Eastern front; the collection will constitute an important source for research regarding the Untermensch ("subhuman") race;
Included in the file:
Letter sent by the Reichsgeschaeftsfuerer (Reichs general director) of the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage") research institute to...