15 June 1943 | Due to the threat of a typhus epidemic, SS-Hauptsturmführer Dr. Bruno Berger, a collaborator of the Military Scientific Research Institute Ahnenerbe (“ancestral heritage”), completed his work in KL Auschwitz, most likely earlier than planned.
As a result of his work, 115 prisoners were selected: 79 Jewish men, two Poles, four Asians, and 30 Jewish women. After quarantine, they were to be transferred to KL Natzweiler. From there, after they had been killed, their bodies were to be sent to the Institute of Anatomy in Strasbourg, whose director was SS-Hauptsturmführer Prof. August Hirt, for the collection of skeletons he was creating.
(In the picture: Beger conducting anthropometric studies in Sikkim Bundesarchiv, Bild 135-KB-15-083 / Krause, Ernst / CC-BY-SA 3.0)