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 ...

May 17, 1990 · Sigmund Rascher was born in 1909. He started his medical studies in 1930 and joined both the Nazi party and the storm troopers (the SA) three years later.

Feb 26, 2024 · On April 26, 1945, a mere three days before American troops liberated the Dachau, Sigmund Rascher was executed via a pistol shot to the head, his executioner, Theodore Bongartz, supposedly exclaiming: “ You pig, now you’ve got the punishment you deserve.”

In 1942, Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude, they placed...

Sigmund Rascher (12 Feb. 1909 – 26 April 1945), a Luftwaffe Major, was a physician who conducted often-lethal freezing and low-pressure experiments on concentration-camp inmates at the Dachau Camp. In 1944, he and his wife were arrested for kidnapping babies while falsely claiming them to be Mrs. Rascher’s natural-born children.

Sigmund Rascher (12 February 1909 – 26 April 1945) was a German SS doctor. His deadly experiments on humans, which were carried out in the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, were judged inhumane and criminal during the Nuremberg Trials.

The photograph was taken by Sigmund Rascher, an SS physician who carried out particularly dangerous and often deadly medical experiments at Dachau. Heinrich Himmler had ordered that prisoners at Dachau who had been given a life sentence and survived one of these experiments were to be pardoned.

Sigmund Rascher German Schutzstaffel doctor. Born: 1909-02-12 (Munich) Died: 1945-04-26 (Dachau concentration camp) Country of citizenship: Germany Occupation: physician; torturer

Sigmund Rascher (* 12. Februar 1909 in München; † 26. April 1945 im KZ Dachau) war ein deutscher KZ-Arzt und Massenmörder. Die von ihm im KZ Dachau durchgeführten Menschenversuche mit mehr als 150 Todesopfern wurden vom Gericht des Nürnberger Ärzteprozesses als unmenschlich und verbrecherisch klassifiziert.

Reproduction of a letter dated April 5, 1942 that Dr. Sigmund Rascher sent to Heinrich Himmler. The letter accompanied a report detailing the first findings from Rascher's high-altitude ...