TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-2734
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 473
EXTRACTS OF LETTER FROM GRAWITZ TO HIMMLER, 7 SEPTEMBER 1942, AND REPORT ON GAS GANGRENE EXPERIMENTS
| The Reich Leader SS | Berlin, W 15, 7 September 1942 | |
| Reichsarzt SS and Police | Knesebeckstrasse 50/51 | |
| Telephone: 924249. 924351. | [Rubber stamp] | |
| 924373. 924406 | (Personal Staff Reich Leader SS | |
| File No. 748/IV/42 | Archives) | |
| (File No. AR/31/13) | ||
| [Signature] Gebhardt | ||
| Subject: | 1. Experiments by SS Brigadefuehrer Gebhardt on the Combating of Gas Gangrene. | |
| 2. Experiments on the Treatment of Sepsis by Biochemistry. | ||
| Enclosures: -2-X | ||
| To the Reich Leader SS H. Himmler | ||
| Berlin | ||
Reich Leader:
Attached please find a provisional report by SS Brigadefuehrer Professor Dr. Gebhardt on his clinical-surgical experiments at Ravensbrueck concentration camp, furthermore a concluding provisional report on experiments on the biochemical treatment of sepsis as performed at Dachau concentration camp.
[Signature] Grawitz
| [Rubber stamp] | } | [Handwritten] |
| } | 16 September 1942 | |
| Personal Staff RF-SS Enclosures | } | Settled, after conversation with |
| In: 9 September 1942 | } | RF-SS. Obersturmfuehrer F. |
| Journal No. AR/40/7/42 2 | } | Fischer has been given new |
| ? RF | } | instructions for Ravensbrueck |
| } | and Dachau. | |
| [Signature] Gebhardt | ||
| Copy! | ||
| [Rubber stamp] | ||
| (Personal Staff Reich Leader SS Archives) | ||
| (File No. AR/31/13) | ||
| Professor Dr. K. Gebhardt | ||
| SS Brigadefuehrer and Brigadier General of the Waffen SS | ||
| To the Reichsarzt SS Gruppenfuehrer Grawitz | ||
Provisional Report on Clinical Experiments at Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp for Women
By order of the Reich Leader SS, I started on 20 July 1942 at Ravensbrueck concentration camp for women on a series of clinical experiments with the aim of analyzing the sickness known as gas gangrene, which does not take a uniform course, and of testing the efficacy of the known therapeutic medicaments.