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Letter to Heinrich Himmler requesting the use of SS prisoners for high altitude experiments
IMT
Authors
Sigmund Rascher (Dr., SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer)
Sigmund Rascher
German Schutzstaffel doctor
- Born: 1909-02-12 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-04-26 (Dachau concentration camp)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: physician; torturer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Sturmabteilung
- Military rank: Hauptsturmführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel (date: 1942-01-01; military rank: Untersturmführer)
Date: 15 May 1941
Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-1602
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 454
Document Book No: Prosecution Z: SS
Citations: IMT (page 1848), IMT (page 5672)
HLSL Item No.: 451438
Notes:The document was cited by the prosecution during Goering's defense case (11 March 1946).
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… High altitude experiments (IMT,NMT 1, 2, 4)
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-1602: Letter from Dr. Rascher to Hitler re: high altitude experiments on Human Beings
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-1602: Letter from Dr. Rascher to Himmler, 15 May 1941, proposing that criminals or feeble-minded persons should be placed at his disposal for (possibly fatal) high altitude experiments for the Luftwaffe
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-1602: 15 May 41 - Rascher to Himmler asking permission to perform experiments.
15 May 41 - Rascher to Himmler requesting criminals as subjects for altitude experiments.