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Letter to Viktor Brack concerning x-ray sterilization experiments
NMT 1
Authors
Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
- Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
- Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
- Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)
Date: 11 August 1942
Defendant: Viktor Brack
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NO-206
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 164
Document Book No: Prosecution 16
Citations: NMT 1 (page 1796), NMT 1 (page 4887)
HLSL Item No.: 175
Notes:This document was also entered in the trial on 16 December 1946 in Document Book 6, on sterilization. The document was cited in the euthanasia charge but not read. Brack's letter to Himmler, 23 June 1942, is document NO 205, database item 174.
Trial Issues
Euthanasia program (Action 14 f 13) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) Sterilization experiments (IMT, NMT 1, 4)
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