Reichsuniversität Straßburg

[3] The initial organisation of the Reichsuniversität was overseen by Ernst Anrich, a historian who became Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy.

[4] The university had four of the traditional faculties: Philosophy (i.e., Humanities), Law, Medicine and Science, but no division of Theology.

[10] August Hirt, subsequently convicted as a war criminal, headed the Institute of Anatomy, where he conducted "racial anatomy" experiments and murdered concentration camp inmates for the Ahnenerbe's Jewish skeleton collection and his own Jewish skull collection.

[11] Victims were selected at Auschwitz as well as at the nearby Natzweiler-Struthof camp, and put to death in the gas chambers at Struthof, which had originally been installed for chemical weapons experiments.

[1] In 2016 the University of Strasbourg commissioned an investigation of medical crimes committed at the Reichsuniversität, and the report was published in May 2022.

Seal of the Department of Germanic and Norse Studies
Memorial for the victims of August Hirt's racial researches at the Institute of Anatomy of the Reichsuniversität Straßburg. The inscription reads, in translation:
"In memory of the 86 Jewish victims assassinated in 1943 at Struthof by August Hirt, professor at the Nazi Reichsuniversität of Strasbourg.
Their remains rest in the Israelite cemetery in Cronenbourg.
The French Faculty of Medicine of annexed Strasbourg had moved to Clermont-Ferrand.
Remember them so that medicine may never again go astray."