Rudolf Brandt | |
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.jpg) Brandt in U.S. custody | |
| Born | 2 June 1909 |
| Died | 2 June 1948 (aged 39) |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, military officer |
| Organization | Allgemeine SS |
| Political party | Nazi Party |
| Conviction(s) | War crimes Crimes against humanity Membership in a criminal organization |
| Trial | Doctors' trial |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
Rudolf Hermann Brandt (2 June 1909 – 2 June 1948) was a German SS officer from 1933–45 and a civil servant. A lawyer by profession, Brandt was the Personal Administrative Officer to Reichsführer-SS (Persönlicher Referent vom Reichsführer SS) Heinrich Himmler and a defendant at the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg for his part in securing the 86 victims of the Jewish skull collection, an attempt to create an anthropological display of plaster body casts and skeletal remains of Jews.[1] He was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed in 1948. Felix Kersten, a Finnish doctor who reportedly saved thousands of Jews by influencing Himmler during the massage therapy he gave him throughout the war, tried to save Brandt from execution, as Brandt helped him by adding names on the lists intended to save camp prisoners.[2]
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second revised edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 71
- ^ Kessel, Joseph (2016). Les mains du miracle. Barcelone: Gallimard. p. 400. ISBN 978-2-07030645-9.