Nazi War Criminal and SS-Obergruppenfuhrer - Grawitz was born in Charlottenburg, in the western part of Berlin, Germany. He served in the German Army in WWI and received the Iron Cross First Class for bravery in battle. During the Nazi era, he was the Reichsarzt SS und Polizei (Reich Physician SS and Police), he was also head of the German Red Cross. He funded the Nazi attempts to "eradicate the perverted world of the homosexual" and research into attempts to "cure" homosexuality. While the Nazi party was rife with homosexuals, the official party line banned them from membership and sent thousands to concentration camps and he was in charge of "enthusiastic" experiments on those concentration camp inmates. Additionally, he was also a part of the group in charge murdering mentally ill and physically handicapped people in the Action T4 euthanasia program, especially children euthanasia from before prior to the war and after. Towards the end of World War II in Europe, he was a physician in Adolf Hitler's Führer Bunker. When he heard that other officials were leaving the bunker and Berlin in order to escape the advancing Soviet Red Army, he petitioned Hitler to allow him to leave Berlin but his request was denied as Hitler was ordering everyone to stay in the bunker and had even executed at least one SS general who had left, Hermann Fegelein. As the Soviet Army advanced on Berlin, he did in fact leave the bunker and killed himself and his family with grenades at their house in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
Nazi War Criminal and SS-Obergruppenfuhrer - Grawitz was born in Charlottenburg, in the western part of Berlin, Germany. He served in the German Army in WWI and received the Iron Cross First Class for bravery in battle. During the Nazi era, he was the Reichsarzt SS und Polizei (Reich Physician SS and Police), he was also head of the German Red Cross. He funded the Nazi attempts to "eradicate the perverted world of the homosexual" and research into attempts to "cure" homosexuality. While the Nazi party was rife with homosexuals, the official party line banned them from membership and sent thousands to concentration camps and he was in charge of "enthusiastic" experiments on those concentration camp inmates. Additionally, he was also a part of the group in charge murdering mentally ill and physically handicapped people in the Action T4 euthanasia program, especially children euthanasia from before prior to the war and after. Towards the end of World War II in Europe, he was a physician in Adolf Hitler's Führer Bunker. When he heard that other officials were leaving the bunker and Berlin in order to escape the advancing Soviet Red Army, he petitioned Hitler to allow him to leave Berlin but his request was denied as Hitler was ordering everyone to stay in the bunker and had even executed at least one SS general who had left, Hermann Fegelein. As the Soviet Army advanced on Berlin, he did in fact leave the bunker and killed himself and his family with grenades at their house in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
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