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Letter to Heinrich Himmler with a report on experiments in the poison gas (Lost) program at Sachsenhausen

Authors

Ernst Grawitz (Dr., Lt. Gen. Waffen-SS, Reich Physician SS)

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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

Sonntag (Dr., SS-Untersturmfuehrer)

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Walter Sonntag

German physician (1907-1948)

Born: 1907-01-01 (Metz)
Died: 1948-01-01 1948-09-17 (Hamelin) (reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: physician; politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party
Member of: Schutzstaffel (date: 1939-01-01; role: Untersturmführer)
Participant in: Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials (role: defendant); Nazi human experimentation (date: 1939-01-01; location: Sachsenhausen concentration camp)
Significant person: Albert Pierrepoint (role: executioner); Ernst-Robert Grawitz (role: colleague); Herta Oberheuser (role: colleague)

Date: 05 January 1940

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: NO-198

Citations: NMT 1 (page 1012), NMT 1 (page 4905)

HLSL Item No.: 1230

Notes:This Staff Evidence Analysis was prepared by Olga Lang on 3 August 1946. The cover letter is by Grawitz (5 Jan 1940); the report is by Sonntag (22 Dec 1939).

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

NO-198: A report about the experiments with Holzmann's drug against Lost wounds in the Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen and a covering letter of the Reicharzt SS Brig. (Dr. Ernst) Grawitz