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Letter to Wolfram Sievers directing that the Ahnenerbe conduct "military scientific research"

NMT 4

Authors

Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)

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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: 07 July 1942

Defendant: Oswald Pohl

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: NO-422

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 202

Document Book No: Prosecution 7

Citation: NMT 4 (page 244)

HLSL Item No.: 4105

Trial Issues

Administration & organization (all cases) Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)…

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

NO-422: Order from Himmler to Sievers to establish an Institute for Military Scientific Research in the Ahnenerbe

Doc Book Tables of Contents

NO-422: 7 July 42 - Himmler to Sievers ordering the establishment of a branch for Military Scientific Research within the Ahnenerbe; support Hirt; to employ facilities at Dachau.

7 July 42 - Himmler to Sievers re establishment of Institute for Military Scientific Research with- in "Ahnenerbe" to support medical experimentation. Copy to Pohl.