PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 259

LETTER FROM SIEVERS TO RUDOLF BRANDT, 27 JUNE 1942, CONCERNING MUSTARD GAS AND ITS EFFECT ON HUMAN BEINGS

The Ahnenerbe

The Reich Business Manager

Berlin-Dahlem, 27 June 1942

G/H/6, g/Sch/4, A/1/101 S/wo

To: SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Dr. R. Brandt

Personal Staff of the Reich Leader SS

Berlin

Subject: Use of mustard gas for exterminating rats.