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Letter and report concerning the spotted fever (fleckfieber/typhus) experiments at Dachau

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Joachim Ernst A. Mrugowsky (Prof. Dr., Chief of Hygiene Institute, Waffen-SS)

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Joachim Ernst A. Mrugowsky

German physician, SS officer, Chief of Hygiene Institute of the Waffen-SS and convicted war criminal (1905-1948)

Born: 1905-08-15 (Rathenow)
Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: concentration camp guard; military physician; politician; torturer
Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1930-01-01)
Member of: Kyffhäuserbund; National Socialist German Students' League (period: 1930-11-01 through 1931-06-01); Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung
Participant in: Nazi human experimentation; Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant, defendant)
Significant person: Carl Blumenreuter (role: colleague); Enno Lolling (date: 1943-01-01; role: colleague); Ernst-Robert Grawitz (role: colleague); Helmut Poppendick (role: colleague)

Erwin Ding (alias Schuler) (Dr., Hygiene Institute, Waffen SS)

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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: 17 November 1944

Total Pages: 2

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: NO-582

Citations: NMT 1 (page 1120), NMT 1 (page 2735)

HLSL Item No.: 1816

Notes:This Staff Evidence Analysis was prepared by Henry Sachs on 30 Oct 1946. The letter by Mrugowsky is dated 17 Nov 1944; the report by Ding is dated 20 Aug 1944.

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Staff Evidence Analyses

NO-582: Report by Dr. Schuler (Ding) re: Spotted Fever treatmetn with Acridine Derivatives

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NO-582: Letter of 17 Nov. 1944 from Dr. Mrugowsky to Dr. Ding, forwarding letter with thesis on Acridin. He emphasizes that a thesis to be published cannot be longer then II pages.