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Affidavit concerning the euthanasia, typhus, and phenol programs at Buchenwald
Authors
Waldemar Hoven (Dr., physician at Buchenwald, hauptsturmfuehrer Waffen SS)
Waldemar Hoven
German physician, SS officer and convicted war criminal (1903-1948)
- Born: 1903-02-10 (Freiburg im Breisgau)
- Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg am Lech)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Germany; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: military physician; physician; politician; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Nazi executions of ill people; Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
- Significant person: Ilse Koch (role: mistress); Joachim Mrugowsky (role: colleague)
- Military rank: Hauptsturmführer
Date: 24 October 1946
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NO-429
Citations: NMT 1 (page 1078), NMT 1 (page 1722), NMT 4 (page 568)
HLSL Item No.: 1712
Notes:This Staff Evidence Analysis was prepared by M. A. Murphy on 25 Oct 1946.
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NO-429: Affidavit by Waldemar Hoven regarding medical experiments and annihilation of prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Doc Book Tables of Contents
NO-429: Affidavit of Dr. Waldemar HOVEN, para. 9.
Affidavit of Dr. Waldemar HOVEN, dated 24 October 1946 re: Action "14 f 13". Prosecution Ex. No. 281 in Tribunal I, Case No. 1.
Affidavit of Waldemar Hoven, SS physician, concentration camp Buchenwald. Typhus and virus experiments: In the latter part of 1941 an experimental station was established in the Buchenwald concentration camp in order to determine the effectiveness of various typhus vaccines This department was called the "Typhus Experimental Station" and was under the direct supervision of Dr. Ding, alias Schuler. This experimental station was set up in Block 46 of the camp.