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Letter to Ernst Grawitz concerning epidemic jaundice experiments
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)
Date: 16 June 1943
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NO-11
Citations: NMT 1 (page 737), NMT 1 (page 2721), NMT 4 (page 541)
HLSL Item No.: 485
Notes:This Staff Evidence Analysis was prepared by Manfred Wolfson on 25 June 1946. The letter was a reply to a letter from Grawitz, which is NO 10.
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NO-11: 16 June 43 - Himmler to Grawitz (copy to Pohl) approving experimentation by Dohmen on 8 Polish Jews.
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