Execution of Rudolf Brandt
- Nazi War Criminal Involved in Nazi Medical Experiments - Ahnenerbe

6 April 2022

Category: World War 2 Other

Rudolf Brandt was born on June 2, 1909 became a lawyer after studying at University of Berlin and University of Jena in 1933. In 1932 He joined the Nazi party and in 1933 he joined the SS. As a member of Heinrich Himmler's personal staff, from 1941 onwards Rudolf Brandt was involved in the coordination and organization of preparatory human experiments and numerous forced sterilizations on female prisoners in the Ravensbrück and Auschwitz concentration camps by the SS doctor Carl Glauberg.

In order to find the most effective method of mass sterilization, Glauberg injected Jewish victims at Auschwitz with a chemical acid that produced severe internal burns. Brand also belonged to the Ahnenerbe. The Ahnenerbe was the SS political-propaganda association which promoted the racial doctrines of the Nazi party and supported the idea that an ancient Aryan race is biologically superior to other racial groups and modern Germans were its descendants. Its general secretary was Wolfram Sievers.

Connection with Jewish skeleton collection

Thus, Brandt became one of those responsible for the murder of male and female Auschwitz Jewish prisoners for the so-called “ Jewish skeleton collection” which was to be housed at the Reich University of Strasbourg after the victims being photographed and their anthropological measurements taken. The purpose of this project was to prove the alleged racial inferiority of the so called “ Jewish race “ and to emphasize that the Jews were “ subhumans” and Germans were “ superhumans”.

In May 1945 Brandt accompanied Himmler into hiding. He later separated from Himmler and on May 21, 1945 he surrendered to the British troops. Brandt was tried at the Nuremberg Doctors' trial. In summer 1947 a tribunal found Rudolf Brandt guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and membership in the criminal organization the SS and sentenced him to death by hanging. The verdict was carried out in Landsberg Prison on the day of his 39th birthday - 2 June, 1948.

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