Albert Widmann, Poison Bullet Manufacturer And T4 Execution Methods Explorer
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:24 pm
This fellow deserves his own thread;
-Albert Widmann-
https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/docum ... mode=image
'Proven At Nuremberg'...
Some background on 'poison bullets', not unlike gas vans, a Soviet invention.
https://smallarmsreview.com/deadly-effe ... -handguns/
I've been meaning to start one since the 'experimental gassing film' thread. He's quite a caricature of a person. The 'diabolical evil nazi' as it were. Playing his 'character' kept him from the gallows though...
Here's the 'Holocaust Encyclopedia' entry for him as well;
-Albert Widmann-
https://www.jta.org/archive/nazi-office ... mp-inmatesA former SS major who was a specialist in developing poisoned bullets was sentenced today to five years in prison after the court rejected his denial of charges he took part in killings
Spoiler
https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/docum ... mode=image
'Proven At Nuremberg'...
Some background on 'poison bullets', not unlike gas vans, a Soviet invention.
As it turned out, the man should have committed an assassination attempt on SS-Gruppenführer Curt Gustav Friedrich Walther von Gottberg. He received all his equipment by courier from Moscow. The bullets were filled with poison and would be deadly even with the slightest wound. He had received three cartridges, but had three more left from his previous mission. Accordingly, the Russians had probably used such ammunition more often in assassinations.
https://smallarmsreview.com/deadly-effe ... -handguns/
Here's the 'Holocaust Encyclopedia' entry for him as well;
https://holocaustencyclopedia.com/witne ... lbert/921/If Widmann really developed, in 1939, the murder method for euthanasia killings in German’s mental institutions, and if those had been working very reliably for two years by late 1941, then why did Widmann have to travel 1,000 km east to try some insane methods to find out how best to kill mental patients there?