English Translation

-/ 2 4 B e r i c h t about the partial autopsy of Ss senior group leader Reinhard H e y d r ic h, carried out on 04.VI.1942, 12 noon in the city hospital, B u l o w k a, by Prof. H. Hamperl, board member of the pathological institute of the German Karls University in Prague with the help of Prof. G. Weyrich, Member of the Board of the Medical Institute of the German Charles University in Prague. I. Pathological and anatomical findings. On the left chest wall, a 20 cm long surgical wound, which is fixed by button seams, runs in a 6 cm long wedge directly next to the sternum and bends right-angled to the left side just below the sword's development, in order to run in a l4 cm long heel, horizontally and lo cm under the nipple to the right side. From the middle of this horizontal wound section, a lo cm long surgical section pulls diagonally downwards and outwards, which is closed in its upper half by button seams, into its lower half. At the lower angle of this surgical cut, a gauzetampone and a grubidrain tube pulls into the depth. Rib, a 9 cm long, almost horizontal, slightly slanting surgical wound; in its lateral 2 1/2 cm long wedge, it is united by button seams. Here, a rubber drain tube fixed to the skin by seam pulls into the depth. In the remaining, about 6 cm long rope, it claps up to 2 em in places and is covered with spangled eitrøg. At the wound edges 2 stroke-shaped contractions after removed seams. (sectional cut slightly above the sword's extension starting to the symphysis. Separation of the musculi recti under protection of the skin. The peritoneal skin everywhere reflecting smooth. On the intestinal slings a very small amount of viscous blood, in the small basin about a large tablespoon of dark red liquid blood. The lowest thin blade is connected to the sigma by fibrous waxing. In the case of the left rib arch, the large net is loosely glued back to it with cem parietal peritoneum, which, like the glued colon, can be detachable by slight pressure. Under the left rib arch, a flat cave, encapsulated on all sides by such bondings, is opened, in which a little greasy raffia pus is found, but no larger pus accumulation. When the musculature is removed from the left rib arch, there are necrotic points under the above-mentioned angled surgical section and in its area also some droplets of ovarian fluid. These points are already directly adjacent to the canal through which the gauze strip and the rubber drain tube are drawn into the depth. The two bend upwards and outwards under the rib arch and immediately attach to the lower surface of the diaphragm to which they have to follow. The spleen is missing. On the pancreatic tail multiple ligatures. After removal of the drain and detachment of the pancreatic swan - zes from the retroperitoneal cell tissue, the underside of the thin diaphragms is completely represented.