Within the next few days, I shall report at length on these experiments as well as on the above-mentioned Test Person Wagner. I also have a request to make: May I take pictures of the various dissection preparations in the dissecting room of the concentration camp to make a record of the strange formations of air embolism? In this connection, my wife has already written to SS Sturmbannfuehrer Dr. Brandt. Highly esteemed Reich Leader, allow me to close by assuring you that your active interest in these experiments has a tremendous influence on one’s working capacity and initiative. I am with devoted greeting and Heil Hitler! Yours gratefully devoted [Signed] S. RASCHER TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-264 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 60 FILE NOTE FOR SS OBERSTURMFUEHRER SCHNITZLER, 28 APRIL 1942 Frau Rascher was here today in the office and stated the following to me for you in a few words: Oberstabsarzt Dr. Weltz still insists on participation in the experiments and on full responsibility. If not, the assignment of Dr. Rascher to the Weltz Institute must be changed. Weltz personally is _not_ interested in these experiments. RLM [The Reich Air Ministry] asks Oberstabsarzt Dr. Weltz how long the experiments will last and whether it is justifiable to detail a medical officer for so long a time. RLM demands from Weltz an opinion on the experiments which he, however, cannot give, unless he is fully informed about them. Weltz will be in Berlin with Generaloberstabsarzt Hippke on Friday. Weltz demands a statement by Friday as to whether he should consider himself as still participating in the experiments, or whether it is requested that he should not participate in the experiments. The assignment of Dr. Rascher must immediately be changed to “Assignment to Aviation Test Institute Berlin—Adlershof, Dachau Branch” (not Weltz Institute), because Weltz—as he stated—intends to cancel the assignment immediately, if he is not to participate in it. _For personal confidential information_ Dr. Weltz confidentially informed Dr. Rascher that there is great mistrust against him in the RLM because of the experiments (SS membership); there is also animosity in the air force administrative command (Luftgau) Munich for this reason. Munich, 28 April 1942. Gr. TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-220 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 61 LETTER FROM RASCHER TO HIMMLER, 11 MAY 1942, AND SECRET REPORT CONCERNING HIGH-ALTITUDE EXPERIMENTS Sigmund Rascher M. D. Munich, Trogerstrasse 56, 11 May 1942 Highly esteemed Reich Leader: