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Work journal of the typhus (and other) vaccine project at Buchenwald, 1941-1945
Authors
Erwin Ding (alias Schuler) (Dr., Hygiene Institute, Waffen SS)
Erwin Ding (alias Schuler)
German surgeon (1912-1945)
- Born: 1912-09-19 (Bitterfeld)
- Died: 1945-08-11 (Freising)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: concentration camp guard; military physician; surgeon; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Nazi human experimentation
- Significant person: Joachim Mrugowsky (role: superior); Werner Kirchert (role: colleague)
- Military rank: Sturmbannführer
Date: 29 December 1941
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NO-265
Citations: NMT 1 (page 1127), NMT 1 (page 3768), NMT 4 (page 322)
HLSL Item No.: 1546
Notes:This Staff Evidence Analysis was prepared by Ellinor F. Jasinski on 14 Sep 1946. Schuler was an alias for Ding; during the trial he was often called Ding-Schuler. The text is a record beginning 29 Dec 1941 and ending 2 Jan 1945.
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NO-265: The Diary of Dr. E. Ding, alias Schuler for 41/45, entitled 'Tagebuch'
Doc Book Tables of Contents
NO-265: Ding Diary 1941-1945 giving details of all experiments.
Diary of Dr. Ding, entry of 22 Dec. 1941. Meeting between Handloser, Conti, Mrugowsky and Gildemeister. "It has been established the need exists to test the efficacy of, <ill> and resistance of the human body to the serum extracted from egg yolks. Since tests on animals are not of sufficient value, tests on human beings must be carried out."
Diary of Dr. Ding, entry of 20 Feb. 1942: Charts of case history of the preliminary tests to establish a sure means of infection were sent to Berlin. 1 death out of 5 sick.
Diary of Dr. Ding, 3 Mar. 1942: "All persons vaccinated for immunization between 6 Jan. 1942 and 1 Feb. 1942, and the 10 persons for control were infected with a virus culture."
Diary of Dr. Ding, entry of 10 Jan. 1943, re therapeutic experiments with Acridin and Methylene Blue.
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