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camp. On 27 August 1942 in a letter to Gluecks
of the WVHA, he stated that in connection with a visit to Hirt in
Strasbourg be would like to take Hirt with him to Natzweiler on 31
August 1942 and he asked Gluecks to make the necessary arrangements
with the commander of the camp. (NO-935, Pros. Ex. 481.) In
a file note dated 17 September 1942 Sievers stated that the
conference mentioned in his letter to Gluecks had been held in
Natzweiler on 31 August 1942, and that the working conditions there
for the proposed experiments were favorable. Professor Hirt,
Stabsarzt Dr. Wimmer, and Dr. Kieselbach would require automobile
transport for part of the trip from Strasbourg to Natzweiler in
order to perform their work there, and accordingly 20 liters of
gasoline would have to be made available to the camp authorities
each month. (NO-977, Pros. Ex. 482.) In a letter of 11
September 1942 to Gluecks, Sievers stated that the necessary
conditions existed in Natzweiler "for carrying out our
mililitary scientific research work * * *". He requested that
Gluecks issue the necessary authorization for Hirt, Wimmer, and
Kieselbach to enter Natzweiler, and that provision be made for their
accommodation and board. He also stated that: "The experiments which are to be performed on prisoners are to be carried out in four rooms of an already existing medical barrack. Only slight changes in the construction of the building are required, in particular the installation of the hood which call be produced with very little material. In accordance with attached plan of the construction management at Natzweiler, I request that necessary orders be issued to same to carry out the reconstruction. All the expenses arising out of our activity at Natzweiler will be covered by this office * * *." (NO-978, Pros. Ex. 480.)In a memorandum on 3 November 1942 to the defendant Rudolf Brandt, Sievers complained about certain difficulties which had arisen in Natzweiler because of the lack of cooperation from the camp officials. Sievers was particularly outraged by the fact that the camp officials were asking that the experimental prisoners be paid for. said that: "When I think of our military research work conducted at concentration camp Dachau, I must praise and call special attention to the generous and understanding way in which our work was furthered there and to the cooperation we were given. Payment of [for] prisoners was never discussed. It seems as if at Natzweiler they are trying to make as much money as possible out of this matter, We are not conducting these experiments, as a matter of fact, for the sake of some fixed scientific idea, but to be of practical help to the armed forces and beyond that to the German people in a possible emergency." (NO-098. Pros. Ex. 263.) |
