d. Evidence

Prosecution Documents
Pros.
Doc. No.Ex. No.Description of DocumentPage
1602-PS44Letter from Rascher to Himmler, 15 May 1941, concerning high-altitude experiments on human beings.[141]
1582-PS45Letter from Rudolf Brandt to Rascher, undated, nforming him that prisoners would be made available for high-altitude research.[143]
1581-A-PS48Letter from Rudolf Brandt to Sievers, 21 March 1942, concerning Rascher’s participation in high-altitude experiments.[144]
1971-A-PS49Letter from Rascher to Himmler, 5 April 1942, and report, undated, on high-altitude experiments.[144]
1971-C-PS50Letter from Rudolf Brandt to Rascher, 13 April 1942, regarding his success with high-altitude experiments.[147]
1971-B-PS51Letter from Himmler to Rascher, 13 April 1942, requesting a repetition of high-altitude experiments on prisoners condemned to death.[148]
1971-D-PS52Teletype from Rascher to Rudolf Brandt, 20 October 1942, requesting clarification on the pardon granted by Himmler.[149]
1971-E-PS53Teletype from Rudolf Brandt to Schnitzler, 21 October 1942, concerning the pardon granted by Himmler.[149]
NO-21856Letter from Rascher to Himmler, 16 April 1942, reporting on high-altitude experiments with fatal results and on experiments conducted together with Romberg.[150]
NO-26460File note for SS Obersturmfuehrer Schnitzler, 28 April 1942.[151]
NO-22061Letter from Rascher to Himmler, 11 May 1942, and secret report concerning high-altitude experiments.[152]
NO-40266Letter, 29 September 1942, and report, 28 July 1942, from Romberg and Ruff to Himmler concerning experiments on rescue from high altitudes.[155]
343-A-PS62Letter from Milch to Wolff, 20 May 1942, regarding continuation of experiments.[172]
343-B-PS70Letter from Milch to Himmler, 31 August 1942, acknowledging receipt of reports by Rascher and Romberg on high-altitude experiments.[172]
NO-28972Letter from Hippke to Himmler, 8 October 1942, thanking the latter for his assistance in high-altitude experiments in Dachau.[173]
NO-22476Note by Romberg on showing of film in office of State Secretary Milch and proposed report to Milch, 11 September 1942.[174]
1612-PS79Letter from Rudolf Brandt to Rascher, 13 December 1942, and Himmler’s order assigning Rascher to high-altitude experiments.[176]
NO-61041Inmates of the Dachau concentration camp in different stages of simulated altitude in the low-pressure chamber; postmortem dissections of experimental subjects who died from the effects of high-altitude experiments. (See Selections from Photographic Evidence of the Prosecution.)[898]
Testimony
Extracts from the testimony of tribunal witness Walter Neff[177]
Extracts from the testimony of defendant Rudolf Brandt[183]
Extracts from the testimony of defendant Romberg[186]

TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 1602-PS

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 44

LETTER FROM RASCHER TO HIMMLER, 15 MAY 1941, CONCERNING HIGH-ALTITUDE EXPERIMENTS ON HUMAN BEINGS

[Stamp]

Sigmund Rascher, M. D.

Personal Staff Reich Leader SS

Archives File No. Secret/58

Munich, Trogerstrasse 56, 15 May 1941