Rascher posing with one of the children kidnapped by his wife
Born
12 February 1909
Munich, Bavaria, German Empire
Died
26 April 1945(1945-04-26) (aged 36)
Dachau concentration camp, Dachau, Nazi Germany
Cause of death
Execution by shooting
SS paramilitary career
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Schutzstaffel
Years of service
1936–1945
Rank
SS-Hauptsturmführer
Sigmund Rascher (12 February 1909 – 26 April 1945) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor. He conducted deadly experiments on humans pertaining to high altitude, freezing and blood coagulation under the patronage of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, to whom his wife Karoline "Nini" Diehl had direct connections. When police investigations uncovered that the couple had defrauded the public with their supernatural fertility by 'hiring' and kidnapping babies, she and Rascher were arrested in April 1944. He was accused of financial irregularities, murder of his former lab assistant, and scientific fraud, and brought to Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps before being executed. After his death, the Nuremberg Trials judged his experiments as inhumane and criminal.[1]
^Heller, Kevin (2011). Oxford University Press (ed.). The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law. ISBN 978-0199554317.
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