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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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