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THE STRUTHOF ALBUM

STUDY OF THE GASSING AT NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF
by Jean-Claude Pressac  

 
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TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-087
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 181
LETTER FROM SIEVERS TO EICHMANN (COPY TO RUDOLF BRANDT), 21 JUNE 1943, CONCERNING SELECTION OF SUBJECTS FOR A SKELETON COLLECTION 
[Handwritten] XI a 56  Ahnenerbe Office
Institute for Military Scientific Research
G/H/6, S2/He  Berlin-Dahlem, Puecklerstrasse 16, 21 June 1943  Top Secret  G.R.Z.I. A.H. Sk. No. 10
5 copies – 2d copy
no enclosures 
To
Reich Security Main Office Office
IV B4
Attention: SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Eichmann,
Berlin SW 11, Prinz Albrecht Strasse 8
Subject: Assembling of a skeleton collection.

With reference to your letter of 25 September 1942, IV B 4 3576/42 g 1488, and the personal talks which have taken place in the meantime on the above matter, you are informed that the coworker in this office who was charged with the execution of the above-mentioned special task, SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Dr. Bruno Beger, ended his work in the Auschwitz concentration camp on 15 June 1943 because of the existing danger of infectious diseases.

A total of 115 persons were worked on, 79 of whom were Jews, 2 Poles, 4 Asiatics, and 30 Jewesses. At present, these prisoners are separated according to sex and each group is accommodated in a hospital building of the Auschwitz concentration camp and are in quarantine.

For further processing of the selected persons an immediate transfer to the Natzweiler concentration camp is now imperative, this must be accelerated in view of the danger of infectious diseases in Auschwitz. Enclosed is a list containing the names of the selected persons.

It is requested that the necessary directives be issued.

Since with the transfer of the prisoners to Natzweiler the danger of spreading diseases exists, it is requested that an immediate shipment of disease-free and clean prisoners’ clothing for 80 men and 30 women be ordered sent from Natzweiler to Auschwitz.

At the same time one must provide for the accommodation of the 30 women in the Natzweiler concentration camp for a short period.  
[Signature] Sievers
SS Standartenfuehrer 
Carbon copies to —
a. SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Dr. Beger
b. SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Prof. Dr. Hirt
c. SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Dr. Brandt  
 
 
   
   

THE STRUTHOF ALBUM

STUDY OF THE GASSING AT NATZWEILER-STRUTHOF
By Jean-Claude Pressac

 
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