deaths
January 11, 1994
Helmut Poppendick, German physician (born 1902)

Helmut Poppendick
Helmut Poppendick was a Nazi physician in the SS during World War II. After the war he was a defendant in the 1947 Doctors' Trial and accused of war crimes relating to human experimentation; he was acquitted on these charges, but convicted for his SS membership and sentenced to 10 year imprisonment. He was released in 1951.