Helmut Poppendick
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Helmut Poppendick (
Education and Nazi activities
Poppendick studied medicine from 1919 to 1926 in Göttingen, Munich, and Berlin. Poppendick received his medical license on 1 February 1928. Then, he worked for four years as a clinical assistant at the First Medical Clinic of Charité in Berlin. From June 1933 to October 1934 he was the assistant medical director at Virchow Hospital in Berlin.[2]
He was an internist and worked in the Medical Doctorate, as Chief of the Personal Staff of the Reich Physician SS and Police.
In 1935, he completed training as an expert for "
At the beginning of World War II, he was drafted as an adjutant to a medical department of the army and took part in the attack on Belgium, France and the Netherlands. In November 1941, Poppendick was accepted into the Waffen-SS. In 1943,
War crimes, Doctors' Trial, and release
Poppendick was implicated in a series of
On 31 January 1951, Poppendick's sentence was commuted to time served, and he was released from prison the next day. Later on, Poppendick managed to get his medical services paid by insurance, in Oldenburg.
See also
- Doctor's Trial
- Nazi human experimentation
References
- ^ a b Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection, "Helmut Poppendick Affidavit, 14 January 1947", Harvard Law School Library Item No. 849. Archived 25 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Nuremberg - Transcript Viewer - Transcript for NMT 1: Medical Case". nbg-02.lil.tools. Retrieved 2022-10-31.