This series consists of a report prepared by the Analysis and Reports Section of the Office of the Director of Intelligence, Office of Military Government for Germany (U.S.). The report (CINFO Report No. 5) is entitled “SS Medical Research” and is dated February 10, 1946. The main body of the report, covering the period 1941-1944, consists of chapters on every series of Nazi medical experiments made, interspersed with transcripts of documents and a commentary. At the beginning of each chapter the names of all persons connected with that particular experiment are listed. The report contains a substantive amount of information regarding the Ahnenerbe, a Nazi research institute founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, and about Drs. Wolfram Sievers (Reichsgeschäftsführer, or managing director, of the Ahnenerbe from 1935 to 1945); Sigmund Rascher (head of a department in the Ahnenerbe located at the Dachau concentration camp); August Hirt (director of the anatomical institute at the University of Strassbourg); and, Karl Brandt (headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program beginning in 1939, served as Adolf Hitler’s personal physician beginning in 1934, and became Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation). The report also includes appendices which provide short biographical details of staff involved in SS medical research. This copy of the report is missing the last few pages of the biographical details and a roster of Ahnenerbe personnel. This series was maintained by the Evidence Division.
