Ernst-Robert Grawitz
Ernst-Robert Grawitz | |
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Potsdam-Babelsberg, Gau March of Brandenburg, Nazi Germany | |
| Allegiance |  Nazi Germany |
| Service/ |  German Red Cross |
| Rank | SS-Obergruppenführer |
Ernst-Robert Grawitz (8 June 1899 – 24 April 1945) was a German physician and an
Nazi era
.
Biography
Grawitz was born in Charlottenburg, in the western part of Berlin, Germany. As Reichsarzt SS und Polizei (Reich Physician SS and Police), Grawitz was also head of the DRK, the German Red Cross, between 1937 and 1945.
Grawitz funded Nazi programs to "eradicate the perverted world of the homosexual" and research into a so-called "cure" for homosexuality. This involved experimentation on inmates in Nazi concentration camps.[1] He was chief medical officer of the SS and an “enthusiastic experimenter on concentration camp inmates”.[2]
Grawitz was also a part of the group in charge of the murder of
Action T4 "euthanasia" programme, including children from 1939.[3] The officials selected the doctors who were to carry out the operational part of the killing programme.[4] In addition, researchers both in and outside the SS wanted to exploit the supply of inmates held in the SS camps and use them for experiments.[5] In order to do so, the interested parties had to apply to Grawitz, who forwarded requests to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler who then gave final approval.[5]
Towards the
Babelsberg.[2]
References
- TheGuardian.com. 5 May 2015.
- ^ a b Evans, Richard (2009) [2008]. The Third Reich at War, p. 729.
- ^ Schafft, Gretchen E. (2004). From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich, pp. 159–163.
- ^ Lifton, R. J. (1986). The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, p. 64.
- ^ a b Weale, Adrian (2012). Army of Evil: A History of the SS, p. 100.
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