Anthropological experiments of Professor August Hirt. Biography of August Hirt
"Ahnenerbe" (from German "Heritage of the Ancestors") is one of the most mysterious organizations of Nazi Germany. The true essence of this SS “scientific society” has long been eclipsed by myths. Most of our contemporaries imagine his activities in the films “The Last Crusade” and “Ark of the Covenant” from the Hollywood saga about Indiana Jones.
Or from newspaper gossip. “Pravda,” for example, wrote at one time that a burial place of SS soldiers and officers was found in Ukraine, on which doctors from the Ahnenerbe conducted lethal experiments, trying to find their “third eye” and understand the psychophysical capabilities of true Aryans. There was nothing like that. But, unfortunately, the true story is even worse.
Hitler's secret project "Ahnenerbe"
Over 50 thousand studies have been published about the “Third Reich”, Nazism and Hitler. But these works reflect mainly historical, social, economic, political and some philosophical aspects of the topic. Very little has been written about Hitler’s secret Ahnenerbe project.
The sphere of secret knowledge in the “Third Reich” was dealt with by a special SS project “Ahnenerbe”. It was led by SS Colonel Wolfram von Sievers. In the depths of the Ahnenerbe, “in the interests of Greater Germany,” unheard-of atrocities were committed against people who acted as guinea pigs. The entire range of occult and secret knowledge available to the Nazis was accumulated here, also “in the interests of Greater Germany.”
When the concepts of Agharti and Shambhala, unfamiliar to journalists, were heard in the courtroom at the Nuremberg trials, they were not taken seriously. More likely - ironically. The picture of fascist atrocities was in no way consistent with such a tolerant religion as Buddhism, or with the concept of faith in general. 
In 1935, the Ahnenerbe was created as a non-governmental scientific society (“verein”) and initially did not form part of the Nazi state machine. It was, rather, a “club of interests” of a variety of people engaged in pseudo-scientific research in the field of German history and philology, and existed on private donations and “grants” from the Ministry of Food.
Until 1937, in the “Heritage of the Ancestors” documents, the same Himmler, for example, was mentioned exclusively as a “certified agronomist” and not as Reichsführer SS. Now this “agronomist” began, step by step, to build “verein” into his “state within a state.”
In October 1937, he instructed the chief of his personal staff, Gruppenführer Karl Wolf (a popular character in Seventeen Moments of Spring), to ensure “uniformity in the understanding of scientific issues between the SS and the secret Ahnenerbe project.” Many employees of the company combined work there with service in the RSHA, receiving officer ranks.
"Magic" weapons
It is unlikely that anyone will dare to dispute the thesis that the possession of “magic” weapons was perhaps one of the most secret goals of the top leaders of the “Third Reich”. The Reichsführer's demand to reveal the secret of the striking fire hammer of the Scandinavian god Thor gave rise to the project of the “electric gun”.
The Ahnenerbe project, together with the Elemag company, began preparing drawings of a giant lightning rod that collects lightning energy. With its help, it was necessary to “cut down” all the enemy’s electrical appliances in the front-line zone. This project, however, was considered technically unfeasible by physicists from the Imperial Research Committee. Attempts to use telepathy as a new means of communication, as well as to extract gold from the waters of the Rhine using the methods of “Aryan chemistry” also ended in nothing.
Sigmund Rascher
The exact sciences did not want to succumb to the “scientific” magicians from “The Heritage of Ancestors”. The only area in which the Sievers Institute managed to “please” Himmler with success was medicine, or more precisely, experiments on people. The experiments of Ahnenerbe employees in Dachau began even before the war.
In April 1939, Munich doctor Sigmund Rascher began testing his cancer cure on prisoners. However, this fanatic really took off in February 1942, when a high-pressure chamber was built in his “favorite” concentration camp. Rascher conducted experiments there in order to develop means of protection and treatment for pilots and submariners.
The prisoners were “tested for strength” by calmly observing their suffering through a special window. Many times the Reichsführer himself “admired” the experiments in company with Sievers.
Even later, the terrible doctor took up the problem of hypothermia. Now the unfortunate people were placed in baths with ice water, brought to a half-dead state, and then they tried to “bring them back to life” in various ways (for example, they even used prostitutes from a brothel to warm them up).
And when it occurred to Sigmund Rascher to look for the best antiseptic, they began to shoot at people at point-blank range, and then treat the wounds with various means, including apple syrup. The conveyor belt of torture, of which thousands of prisoners became victims, was stopped in 1944 only by the unexpected arrest of the SS experimenter himself.
Himmler was infuriated by the news that in his free time, an SS Hauptsturmführer (captain) was abducting children on the streets of Munich. The doctor passed off the eight babies he stole as children from his 52-year-old wife. Allegedly, the miracle pills he developed inspired the old woman Caroline Rusher to give birth to twins and triplets of “true Aryan” boys! By order of Himmler, the heroine mother was hanged in Ravensbrück, and the pioneering father received a bullet in the back of the head in the very Dachau where he tortured prisoners.
August Hirt 
Another “hero of the medical front” was the Strasbourg surgeon August Hirt, who was looking for an antidote to poisonous gases, dooming hundreds of people to painful death. But the Reichsführer’s special favor was brought to him by the fact that, together with the “racial specialist” Bruno Beger, who became famous in Tibet, he created a collection of Jewish skeletons.
Beger selected, measured and subjected Auschwitz prisoners to various studies, and August Hirt then killed them in a gas chamber and dissected the corpses using his own methods. Such a terrible “catalog” was supposed to become an ideal indicator of “signs of Jewishness” - even in the third and fourth generations...
When the Americans captured Strasbourg at the end of 1944, they found the corpses of 86 men, women and children floating in formaldehyde, not yet fully “processed”, in the August Hirt clinic. Together with the Ahnenerbe documents found after the war in one of the caves in the Bavarian Alps, this terrible find became the main evidence for the prosecution in the cases of the murderous doctors from the “Legacy of the Ancestors”.
The executive director of the society, Wolfram Sievers, was sentenced to hanging by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal. August Hirt (as, in fact, Himmler) managed to commit suicide before the trial.
However, hundreds of philologists and historians from Hitler’s secret Ahnenerbe project escaped with only a temporary ban on professional activities. Foaming at the mouth, they argued that they were romantics deceived by the Nazi regime and were simply carried away by the ancient German past.
The myths they created about this past, unfortunately, turned into a threat to humanity, arming the “black order” with a “new religion.” Therefore, the Nuremberg Tribunal declared Ancestral Heritage a criminal organization.
HIRT, AUGUST
Girt, German anthropologist and surgeon. Born April 29, 1898 in Mannheim. After receiving his medical degree, he taught for some time in Heidelberg. After meeting Himmler in 1936, Hirt joined the SS in 1939 with the rank of Hauptsturmführer (captain). Himmler set him the task of finding an antidote to mustard gas. Hirt experimented on dogs and himself, after which he ended up in the hospital with a severe hemorrhage in the lungs. Subsequently, he began conducting experiments on concentration camp prisoners, many of whom became blind or died. Himmler, as president of the Ahnenerbe Society, sought to achieve a “scientific justification” for his own racial theories. To do this, he appointed Hirt as head of the established Anatomical Institute at the University of Strasbourg. To collect the skulls, Hirt established close contacts with the “suppliers of raw materials” - Joseph Kramer, known as the “Beast of Belsen”, and Wolfram Sievers, the manager of the affairs of the Ahnenerbe society. On February 9, 1942, Hirt wrote to Himmler: “By properly providing the skulls of the Jewish-Bolshevik commissars, who are the prototype of the disgusting but characteristic subhuman, we have the opportunity to achieve certain scientific results. After a violent death, the head of a Jew, which should not be damaged, should be separated from the body and place in a hermetically sealed vessel filled with a preservative." When American and French troops approached Strasbourg in the summer of 1944, Hirt asked Himmler what to do with his collection of skulls. Himmler advised to destroy it. However, the allies discovered a pile of headless bodies in the storage room of Hirt's laboratory. Hirt himself disappeared and was nowhere to be found.
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German anthropologist and anatomist, SS Sturmbannführer, head of the SS anatomical institute in Strasbourg, head of Ahnenerbe medical programs, war criminal.
August Hirt was born in 1898 in Mannheim into the family of a Swiss entrepreneur. Attended the Karl-Friedrich Gymnasium in Mannheim. In 1914, while still a high school student, he volunteered for the army. A participant in the First World War, in October 1916 he was wounded in the head. He received his medical education at the University of Heidelberg. In 1921 he received German citizenship.
In 1922 he defended his PhD thesis on the topic “The borderline trunk of the sympathicus in some dinosaurs”, in 1925 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “On the direction of the fibers of the renal nerves”. He worked as a professor of anatomy. Since 1936, he was director of the anatomical institute of the University of Greifswald, in 1938 he moved to the same position in Frankfurt, and in 1941 he took up the post of director of the anatomical institute of the University of Strasbourg.
Activity as a war criminal
On April 1, 1933, Hirt joined the SS, and on May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP. He was personally acquainted with Heinrich Himmler. In 1939, he was seconded to the Berlin Military Medical Academy, where he studied the therapeutic effects of trypoflavin in cases of mustard gas. With the outbreak of World War II in the same year, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served as a senior military doctor.
In July 1942, with the formation of the Institute for Scientific Research for Military Purposes within the Ahnenerbe, Hirt occupied Department “H” (Hirt) there. To avoid repeated conscription into the Wehrmacht, he transferred to the SS troops. From March 1, 1942 - as part of the Personal Staff of the Reichsführer SS. Hirt conducted experiments with mustard gas on animals and on himself, and as a result of one of the experiments he himself ended up in the hospital with a hemorrhage in the lungs. After the outbreak of World War II, instead of animals, Hirt began using concentration camp prisoners in his experiments. In 1942-1943, according to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp capo Ferdinand Hall, 150 people went through Hirt’s experiments, of whom 7 or 8 died, and the rest were sent to other concentration camps.
At the Anatomical Institute in Strasbourg, Hirt worked on the scientific substantiation of Nazi racial theories. The Institute worked in close cooperation with the Ahnenerbe Society. For his racial research, Hirt created an extensive anthropological collection of skeletons, skulls, and individual body fragments, which was later discovered by Allied forces in his laboratory's storage room. Auschwitz prisoners of various nationalities were used as “working material”.
After the war
After the liberation of Strasbourg, Hirt and his daughter fled from the advancing Allied troops to Tübingen in November 1944. He was hiding in the Black Forest under the guise of a peasant. He committed suicide (shot himself). However, his search continued until the end of the 1950s. In France, Hirt was sentenced to death in absentia in 1963.
Girt, German anthropologist and surgeon. Born April 29, 1898 in Mannheim. After receiving his medical degree, he taught for some time in Heidelberg. After meeting Himmler in 1936, Hirt joined the SS in 1939 with the rank of Hauptsturmführer (captain). Himmler set him the task of finding an antidote to mustard gas. Hirt experimented on dogs and himself, after which he ended up in the hospital with a severe hemorrhage in the lungs. Subsequently, he began conducting experiments on concentration camp prisoners, many of whom became blind or died. Himmler, as president of the Ahnenerbe Society, sought to achieve a “scientific justification” for his own racial theories. To do this, he appointed Hirt as head of the established Anatomical Institute at the University of Strasbourg. To collect the skulls, Hirt established close contacts with the “suppliers of raw materials” - Joseph Kramer, known as the “Beast of Belsen”, and Wolfram Sievers, the manager of the affairs of the Ahnenerbe society. On February 9, 1942, Hirt wrote to Himmler: “By properly providing the skulls of the Jewish-Bolshevik commissars, who are the prototype of the disgusting but characteristic subhuman, we have the opportunity to achieve certain scientific results. After a violent death, the head of a Jew, which should not be damaged, should be separated from the body and place in a hermetically sealed vessel filled with a preservative." When American and French troops approached Strasbourg in the summer of 1944, Hirt asked Himmler what to do with his collection of skulls. Himmler advised to destroy it. However, the allies discovered a pile of headless bodies in the storage room of Hirt's laboratory. Hirt himself disappeared and was nowhere to be found.
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55. COLLECTION OF DOCTOR HIRT.
In the summer of 1945, units of the SS division, having crossed the Belgian border, broke through to the Rondorf area.
The SS men had 20 “Panthers” and a desperate commander - Oberführer Grotmann, a former adjutant of Himmler. Grotmann parted ways with the Reichsführer in the Stade area: Himmler ordered him to withdraw the already formed column and wait for the order. “I’m going to negotiations and I need “arguments,” he briefly explained, saying goodbye to Grotman.
Two weeks have passed since then: Himmler was already with the British, but instead of understanding, he found death there. But Grotman did not know this; he was following orders.
We moved mainly at night, and twice fought with the Americans, who frivolously rolled around this land as if they were at home. And everything would have been fine if not for one fellow traveler, whom Himmler also ordered to be taken to Rondorf. His name was August Hirt; he headed the Anatomical Institute in Strasbourg and was considered one of the best specialists in heredity. Dr. Hirt was an SS Hauptsturmführer, and Grotman had no objections to his presence in the column, if not for the fact that this eccentric dragged him along. These were 20 wooden boxes filled with sawdust, which Hirt shook over, calling them “treasure.” From the day such a box was placed in each “Panther”, the torment began: a terrible smell came from the insides of the “Panthers”, which the guys drowned out with alcohol. On the bridge over the Ems, Sturmbannführer Dietz tried to throw one of the “treasures” into the river, but Hirt caused a scandal. Grotman had to intervene, otherwise the guys would have thrown Hirt himself off the bridge.
Explain to them, explain... they don’t understand the value... shouted Hirt, backing away from the enraged Dietz and grabbing Grotman by the hand.
“You stank the entire column with your “valuables,” Grotman snapped, the Reichsfuehrer did not give me instructions to carry all sorts of rotten stuff with me!”
Rotten meat?! – Hirt soared, So the Reichsfuehrer didn’t explain it to you?! You don't know anything?! – Hirt reached into Grotman’s lead “Panther”; Soon his excited voice was heard from there: “Here, here!” Look at this, look for yourself!”
Grotman reluctantly climbed, trying not to breathe. Hirt had already opened the box and was shining a flashlight into it.
Look, look! That's what it is! And this?! But this...?! - he one by one lifted and carefully put back three dark skulls, as if in wigs - in fact, they were natural women’s hair that had not yet fallen off, And this... isn’t this a miracle? Isn't this a treasure?!
With his arms outstretched, Hirt thrust into Grotman's face a glass ball covered with sawdust, in which something was swaying with one eye in the middle of his wrinkled forehead. Grotman pulled back. The hands with the flask dropped, and another flask appeared - in it a small, fist-sized, mournful face swayed in the alcohol from side to side and seemed to be blowing under its nose.
You see how pronounced the anomaly is - almost complete fusion! Here I have the entire series B, and after it there are pathologies of the extremities, after it...
Grotman, without listening to the end, got out of the Panther. He almost vomited. Hirt came out behind him: his face retained an expression of happiness.
My collection contains all the anthropological types of our planet, you understand - all of them! Some samples are fresh, which is why there is this smell. Here I have all the congenital pathologies of the heads and limbs! Do you understand?! The commanders of all the concentration camps in Europe worked for me! I did something that no one can repeat! I ran out of time a little and had to destroy some things, but I saved series B, D and C! Do you understand?! I saved!
Yes, yes...” muttered Grotman, “I understand... Do you understand... if we and your “series” end up with the Americans? This is..., this is..., he was looking for the word.
“We all... worked,” thought Grotman.
He didn't say anything. And he gave a secret order to the column - to the extent possible, to get rid of Dr. Hirt’s “treasures”.
All twenty SS tanks reached Rondorf. Grotman carried out the order. In Rondorf, in a former sanatorium, plastic surgeons were now working - altering the faces of SS ranks. Other people supplied them with documents...
Hirt was also offered to change his appearance and hide. But upon learning that the collection was lost, this eccentric shot himself in the forehead.