Nuremberg Trials Evidence Analysis

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.190abc

Object Name

Copy, Reprographic

Date

8-8-1946

Files

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Description

Description: Filmsy, tan papers with two hole punches on the left side. Upper right of each page has damage from exposure to paperclip, as well as blackness. Each is typewritten in English.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Three contemporary copies of reports by Nuremberg investigator Henry Sachs on behalf of the U.S. Counsel, Nuremberg, Aug. 8, 1945. These are essentially summaries of evidentiary documents. 1) A letter by Wolfram Sievers of the Ahnenerbe Society, addressed to Dr. Rudolf Brandt, on methods of securing skulls of Jews for "scientific" research at the Reich University of Strassburg. In another attachment by Dr. August Hirt, it is proposed that after preliminary work is done, photographs and measurements taken, and personal information on the prisoners gathered, the heads should be kept undamaged and sent in sealed tins with preserving fluid for future research. 2) A letter from Wolfram Sievers to Rudolf Brandt reminding the latter that - on Himmler's orders - Prof. Hirt should get what he needs for his anthropological research, citing 150 Jewish skeletons needed for Hirt's "experiments" to be arranged at Auschwitz. 3) Reference to a letter from Sievers to Brandt marked "Top Secret" in which Sievers asks for direction as to disposition of the collection assembled by Dr. Hirt and the fact that "defleshing of the corpses has not been completed" due to the "vast amount of work" associated with the "research" that Hirt was performing.

Dimensions

13 x 8"

Keywords

Nuremberg, Nuremberg Trials, Reich University of Strassburg, Auschwitz, Experiments, Sachs, Brandt, Hirt, Sievers, Himmler

Subcollection

Post, Trial

Recommended Citation

"Nuremberg Trials Evidence Analysis" (1946). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.190abc.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/274