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Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe (The Ancestral Heritage) Society, 1935-1945

Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe (The Ancestral Heritage) Society, 1935-1945 Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe Society, a pseudo-scientific organization founded through the initiative of Heinrich Himmler and Darre, in 1935, which dealt with the study of ancient German history and in anthropological research in order to decide on various issues in Nazi ideology. At the peak of its activities, the organization included 40 scientific departments headed by Wolfram Sivers, who was executed as a result of the Nurenberg Trials. Following 1939, the organization frequently used the results of medical experiments carried...

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

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

Language : German

Letter sent to Eichmann by Wolfram Sievers, from the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage") research institute, regarding the building of a collection of skeletons, 1943

Letter sent to Eichmann by Wolfram Sievers, from the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage") research institute, regarding the building of a collection of skeletons, 1943 Halting of the activities for the establishment of the collection [of skeletons] in Auschwitz, due to the danger of epidemics in the camp; 115 inmates were found [selected] for the building of the collection, including 79 Jewish men and 30 Jewish women in the Krankenlager (sick barracks) in Auschwitz; given the danger of epidemics, they [the selected inmates] are to be transferred to Natzweiler, for the continuation of the Bearbeitung...

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German