September 19, 1912 - Erwin Ding-Schuler
A trained physician and SS officer, Ding-Schuler used his medical credentials and institutional position to conduct systematic experiments on concentration camp prisoners under the guise of wartime disease research. Roughly a thousand Buchenwald inmates passed through Experimental Station Block 46, where they were exposed to typhus, cholera, smallpox, and various poisons — conditions designed not for their benefit but to generate data for the SS Hygiene Institute. His case illustrates how professional legitimacy and bureaucratic structure could be enlisted in the service of lethal experimentation.
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