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petitions for clemency, case reviews, correction of commencement dates, and
applications for good conduct releases and parole. Some administrative
records of the War Crimes Branch and press releases are included. A small
amount of documentation on criminal proceedings in District Court
Regensburg, Germany, against Kurt Scharnack, suspected of mistreatment of
inmates at Gusen II, is located in the file “Staybacks: March 1956” (see box 5).
III.66 Records Relating to Medical Experiments (Entry A1 2217, boxes 1–5,
location: 290/59/17/05)
These records contain original German­language documents (some
with English translations) relating to medical experiments and other mis­
treatment of concentration camp inmates. They were originally collected
for possible use in war crimes trials and include material confiscated from
Dr. Paul Nitsche by the U.S. Army in Austria. Documents in this series were
stored in Heidelberg, Germany, before they were retired to Washington,
and became known as the “Heidelberg Documents.” The series is arranged
sequentially by unidentified numbers with Mauthausen materials identi­
fied as follows:
Box 1
Box 2
125478–125484 Supplementary List of Those Who May Be Involved in
Medical Experiment Cases: A fragmentary list (pages 15–21 citing sus­
pects 142–222) giving name of suspect, source of information, and infor­
mation on possible crimes. Includes doctors and dentists at Camp Gusen.
125615–126639 Photostats in the Polish language and English transla­
tions of the deposition of Franz Ziereis, Commandant of Mauthausen,
made on his deathbed on May 23, 1945.
Describes murder installations at Mauthausen including gas cham­
ber and gas­car; injections, medical experiments, and killing by torture:
and descriptions of Hartheim Castle, located at Alkoven, Austria, where
prisoners were killed by injections.
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