Letter to Heinrich Himmler Signed Dr. Wolfram Sievers

Letter to Heinrich Himmler Signed Dr. Wolfram Sievers
Document from the National Socialist Research Association ofGerman Ancestor Heritage ( Forschungsgemeinschaft Deutsches Ahnenerbe )addressed to Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler signed by Dr. Wolfram Sieversthe Managing Director.The document reads :The Ahnenerbe Berlin on the 21.6.42The area managerSubject: Entomological research station.Enclosure: Site plan 1: 100 in DachuaTo the Reichsfuhrer SSBerlin SW 11Prinz-Albrechtstrasse 8Heil Hitler Dr Wolfram SieversSS-ObersturmbannfuhrerWolfram Sievers (10 July 1905 – 2 June 1948) was Reichsgeschäftsführer, ormanaging director, of the Ahnenerbe from 1935 to 1945.Sievers joined the NSDAP in 1929. In 1933 he headed theExternsteine-Stiftung ("Externsteine Foundation"), which had been founded byHeinrich Himmler to study the Externsteine in the Teutoburger Wald. In 1935,having joined the SS that year, Sievers was appointed Reichsgeschäftsführer, or General Secretary, of the Ahnenerbe, by Himmler. He was the actualdirector of Ahnenerbe operations and was to rise to the rank ofSS-Standartenführer by the end of the war.In 1943 Sievers became director of the Institut für WehrwissenschaftlicheZweckforschung (Institute for Military Scientific Research), which conductedextensive experiments using human subjects. He also assisted in assembling acollection of skulls and skeletons for August Hirt's study at theReichsuniversität Straßburg as a part of which 112 Jewish prisoners wereselected and killed, after being photographed and their anthropologicalmeasurements taken.Sievers was tried during the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg following the endof World War II, where he was dubbed "the Nazi Bluebeard" by journalistWilliam L. Shirer because of his "thick, ink-black beard". The Institute forMilitary Scientific Research had been set up as part of the Ahnenerbe, andthe prosecution at Nuremberg laid the responsibility for the experiments onhumans which had been conducted under its auspices on the Ahnenerbe.Sievers, as its highest administrative officer, was accused of activelyaiding and promoting the criminal experiments.Sievers was charged with being a member of an organization declared criminalby the International Military Tribunal (the SS), and was implicated in thecommission of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In his defence, healleged that as early as 1933, he had been a member of an anti-Naziresistance movement which planned to assassinate Hitler and Himmler, andthat he had obtained his appointment as Manager of the Ahnenerbe so as toget close to Himmler and observe his movements. He further claimed that heremained in the post on the advice of his resistance leader to gather vitalinformation which would assist in the overthrow of the Nazi regime.Sievers was sentenced to death on 20 August 1947 for crimes againsthumanity, and hanged on 2 June 1948, at Landsberg prison in Bavaria.This Typed letter measures 110mm x 145mm