Title
BRITISH ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR MEDICAL WAR CRIMES
Reference
MS-BRITA
Date
1946 - 1949
Creator
Scope and Content
A collection of correspondence and reports produced by the British component of the International Scientific Commission (War Crimes), set up to investigate medical experimentation on humans conducted in Nazi internment camps and other sites. Includes correspondence between the first secretary general of the Commission, Canadian Wing Commander John WR Thompson and RCP president, Charles McMoran Wilson (Lord Moran), who led the British committee. Also on the committee were Sir Henry Hallett Dale of the Wellcome Trust, Sir Sydney Smith of the University of Edinburgh, Professor Sweeney of St Thomas' Hospital, and Major Arthur Keith Mant of the Royal Army Medical Corps. The committee asked specialists to report on the experiements in different fields. The specialists were Carlos Paton Blacker (eugenics), Neil Hamilton Fairley (malaria), William George Barnard (pathology), Valentine Herbert Ellis (orthopedic surgery), Cecil Wakeley (surgery), Aubrey Lewis (psychiatry), Charles Lovatt Evans (physiology), and Ronald Hare (bacteriology).
Extent
6 boxes
Language
EnglishGermanFrench
Archival history
The records appear to have been donated by Lord Moran, along with some of his personal papers.
Level of description
fonds
Normal location
11/2ND/ST/R35/B20/sh6
Access
Open access (please be aware that these records may be distressing as they contain descriptions of murder, torture, and human experimentation without consent)