August Hirt in an undated photograph

SS-Hauptsturmführer August Hirt served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg. Working with the Ahnenerbe division, Wolfram Sievers, Bruno Beger and Hirt together collected human skeletons from among the Dachau inmates, and ultimately had 79 Jewish men, 30 Jewish women, 2 Poles, and 4 Asians sent to Natzweiler-Struthof, gassed, and their bodies returned to them. SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop... Hauptsturmführer was a Nazi rank of the SS which was used between the years of 1934 and 1945. ... The Nazi Ahnenerbe Forschungs und Lehrgemeinschaft organization was founded by Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Wirth, and Richard Walter Darré in 1935 as a research foundation. It was moved into the SS by Himmler in 1940. ... This article is about Dachau town. ... Camp entrance Natzweiler-Struthof was a Nazi concentration camp located close to the Alsatian village of Natzwiller (German Natzweiler) in France about 50 km SW from the city of Strasbourg. ...

(some speculate that the asians were in fact, Soviets, and there is mention that Hirt used this opportunity to test the effects of mescaline as a poison).

Hirt committed suicide on June 2nd, 1945 in Schonenbach.