[1] Grawitz himself was chief medical officer of the SS and an “enthusiastic experimenter on concentration camp inmates”.

[2] Grawitz was also a part of the group in charge of the murder of mentally ill and physically handicapped people in the Action T4 "euthanasia" programme, including children from 1939.

[5] In order to do so, the interested parties had to apply to Grawitz, who forwarded requests to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler who then gave final approval.

[5] Towards the end of World War II in Europe, Grawitz was a physician in Adolf Hitler's Führerbunker.

As the Soviet Red Army advanced on Berlin, Grawitz killed himself and his family with grenades at their house in Babelsberg.