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. TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-422
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 33

LETTER FROM HIMMLER TO SIEVERS, 7 JULY 1942, CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN "INSTITUTE FOR MILITARY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH" WITHIN THE AHNENERBE SOCIETY

The Reich Leader SS
Fuehrer Headquarters, 7 July 1942
AR 48/ 6/42

[Stamp]

1. Personal Staff Reich LEADER SS
Archives, File No. AR/22/21

SECRET!

1. To the Reich Manager of the Ahnenerbe
SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Sievers
Berlin-Dahlem

I request the Ahnenerbe

1. to establish an Institute for Military Scientific Research,

2. to support in every possible way the research carried out by SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Prof. Dr. Hirt, and to promote all corresponding research and undertakings,

3. to make available the required apparatus, equipment, accessories and assistants, or to procure them,

4. to make use of the facilities available in Dachau,

5. to contact the Chief of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office [Wirtschaftsverwaltungshauptamt] with regard to the costs, which can be borne by the Waffen SS.

[Signed]
H. H. [HEINRICH HIMMLER]

2. Copy forwarded to the Chief of the Economic and Administrative Main Office,
SS Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl
Berlin — Lichterfelde — West
with the request to take note.

By order,

[Signed] BRANDT SS
Obersturmbannfuehrer M. 7.7.

Certified True Copy:
Signed M.
SS Obersturmfuehrer
7.7.


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