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Letter to Wolfram Sievers directing that the Ahnenerbe conduct "military scientific research"
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)
Rudolf Emil H. Brandt (SS Obersturmbannfuehrer (Himmler's personal staff))
Rudolf Emil H. Brandt
German civil servant and SS officer, convicted war criminal (1909-1948)
- Born: 1909-06-02 (Frankfurt (Oder))
- Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: jurist; lawyer; stenographer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
- Member of: The Ahnenerbe
- Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
- Significant person: Heinrich Himmler (role: adjutant)
Date: 07 July 1942
Defendants: Rudolf Brandt, Wolfram Sievers
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NO-422
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 33
Document Book No: Prosecution 2
Citations: NMT 1 (page 136), NMT 1 (page 204)
HLSL Item No.: 52
Notes:The letter was presented with the evidence on high altitude experiments, although these are not mentioned explicitly. Himmler wrote the letter; Brandt forwarded a copy to Pohl.
Trial Issues
Administration & organization (all cases) Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) High altitude experiments (IMT,NMT 1, 2, 4)
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.