Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume I

VIII. Evidence and Arguments on Important Aspects of the Case F. Necessity G. Subjection to Medical Experimentation as Substitute for Penalties H. Usefulness of the Experiments...

Doc. No. Pros. Ex. No. Description of Document Page NO-429 281 Extract from the affidavit of defendant 555 Hoven, 24 October 1946, concerning typhus and virus experiments. NO-26...

_Prosecution Documents_ Pros. Doc. No. Ex. No. Description of Document Page 1602-PS 44 Letter from Rascher to Himmler, 15 May 1941, 141 concerning high-altitude experiments on h...

Pros. Doc. No. Ex. No. Description of Document Page NO-234 83 Letter from Rascher to Himmler, 10 September 219 1942, transmitting intermediate report on freezing experiments (16...

Pros. Ex. Doc. No. No. Description of Document Page NO-426 160 Extract from the affidavit of 842 defendant Brack, 14 October 1946, describing administrative details and procedur...

_Prosecution Documents_ Pros. Doc. No. Ex. No. Description of Document Page NO-184 132 Letter from the Technical Office of the Reich 447 Minister of Aviation (Goering) to Himmle...

Doc. No. Pros. Ex. No. Description of Document Page NO-247 197 Letter from Koppe to Rudolf Brandt, 3 May 769 1942, concerning the killing of tubercular Poles. NO-244 201 Letter...

Doc. No. Pros. Ex. No. Description of Document Page NO-875 230 Affidavit of Mrs. Zdenka 400 Nedvedova-Nejedla, M. D., of Prague, concerning experimental operations conducted on...

NO-856 125 Extracts from the review of the 289 proceedings of the general military court in the case of the United States vs. Weiss, Ruppert, et al., held at Dachau, Germany.

_Statements Regarding the Question of Responsibility of the Defendant Rose for the Typhus Experiments of Professor Eugen Haagen in the Concentration Camps at Schirmeck and Natzw...

_Prosecution Documents_ Pros. Ex. Doc. No. No. Description of Document Page NO-3963 528 Extracts from affidavit of Karl Wilhelm 710 Friedrich Tauboeck, 18 June 1947, concerning...

Certainly Dr. Ruff gave his agreement and approval to high-altitude tests with a low-pressure chamber of the Reich Air Ministry being performed by his collaborator of many years...

_Prosecution Documents_ Pros. Ex. Doc. No. No. Description of Document Page NO-794 259 Letter from Sievers to Rudolf Brandt, 27 336 June 1942, concerning mustard gas and its eff...

_Prosecution Documents_ Pros. Ex. Doc. No. No. Description of Document Page NO-371 186 Affidavit of defendant Rudolf Brandt, 14 503 October 1946, concerning experiments to deter...

Doc. No. Pros. Ex. No. Description of Document Page NO-228 206 Affidavit of defendant Fischer, 371 19 November 1946, concerning sulfanilamide experiments conducted in the concen...

The prosecution says he is implicated in almost all of them and refers to his position and his connections. They state that he was the highest Reich authority in the medical sph...

Statement of Brack stating that Bouhler worked out a draft in cooperation with Brack based on scientific contributions. The heading “Law relating to the granting of ultimate med...

The concept of the crime against humanity has not been established and it is questionable whether crimes against humanity according to Law No. 10 also refer to such acts as have...

_Prosecution Documents_ Pros. Ex. Doc. No. No. Description of Document Page NO-429 281 Extracts from the affidavit of Waldemar Hoven, 685 24 October 1946, concerning the killing...

_Prosecution Documents_ Doc. No. Pros. Ex. Description of Document Page No. NO-409 249 Report from Grawitz to Himmler, 29 August 657 1942, concerning experiments with biochemica...

Doc. No. Pros. Ex. No. Description of Document Page NO-085 175 Letter from Sievers to Rudolf Brandt, 9 748 February 1942, and report by Hirt concerning the acquisition of skulls...

MR. MCHANEY: Before we go into the details of the typhus experiments, I would like to ask you if you know anything about the manner in which subjects were selected for the exper...

_Prosecution Documents_ Doc. No. Pros. Ex. No. Description of Document Page NO-579 288 Extracts from a report on the findings 644 of 2 January 1944, on a skin ointment—R 17—for...

In the case of these experiments, Professor Schroeder’s participation has been established, and he has accepted the responsibility as far as the preparation and the planning of...

The treatment of the question of responsibility for euthanasia in this room encounters great difficulties insofar as there is not only considerable ignorance of certain peculiar...

It cannot be denied that a ruthless carrying-out of these experiments was liable to inflict torture and death upon the persons experimented on. Here, too, it seems necessary to...

1. _Drug F 1001._ NO-199, Prosecution Exhibit 253, and NO-198, Prosecution Exhibit 254, show that the order to carry out these experiments in the Sachsenhausen concentration cam...

Experiments on persons who offer themselves voluntarily have always been considered admissible. In literary works care is always taken _to note this voluntariness_; where it is...

_Prosecution Documents_ Pros. Ex. Doc. No. No. Description of Document Page NO-1424 462 Affidavit of Fritz Friedrich Karl Rascher, M. 676 D., 31 December 1946, concerning the li...

“Inmates of the Ravensbrueck concentration camp who had been sentenced to death by German courts martial in the General Government as members of the Polish Resistance Movement w...

Of all medical experiments forming the subjects of the indictment, the experiments for testing sulfanilamides were undoubtedly the most directly connected with the war. The prob...

JUDGE SEBRING: * * * Witness, for the sake of clarification, let us assume that it would have been highly important to the Wehrmacht to ascertain, as a matter of fact, how long...

In the presence of SS Sturmbannfuehrer Dr. Ding, Dr. Widmann, and the undersigned, experiments with aconitine nitrate projectiles were conducted on 11 September 1944 on 5 person...

connection with the defendant’s own statements make it obvious that his medical attitude was not based on the principle of negative selection and the destruction of unworthy liv...

2. According to the statements in the verdict of the United States Military Court at Dachau of 26 January 1946 (_NO-856, Pros. Ex. 125_) a great number of people were killed in...

In 1943 a collection of Jewish skeletons was set up in the Anatomy Department of the Reich University of Strasbourg according to plans which had been prepared in 1941 by Himmler...

Probably the most serious accusation against Dr. Blome seemed to be the allegation that he had proposed the murder of 25,000-30,000 tubercular Poles and had taken part in carryi...

The problem of experiments in the field of hepatitis research consists in finding the most efficient treatment of the disease and identifying the virus in order to evolve a vacc...

The question of _polygal_ was from the beginning one of the weakest counts of the indictment against Dr. Blome. It is a remedy to make the blood clot and to prevent people from...

The defendant Gebhardt is also charged in the indictment with particular responsibility in the experiments, whose object according to the indictment was the examination of the c...

“The photos were placed opposite each other, mounted in an album, described in detail; the result sent in two copies to Berlin, one to Professor Mrugowsky, the other—here I am n...

In respect to the poison experiments, I proved in my written statement that Ding’s assertion that Mrugowsky had ordered him to be present at a euthanasia killing by phenol is no...

In the course of the hearing of the evidence, the prosecution submitted documents and interrogated witnesses with the intention of proving that apart from other medical experime...

In April 1949, judgment was rendered in the last of the series of 12 Nuernberg war crimes trials which had begun in October 1946 and were held pursuant to Allied Control Council...

of the twelve cases, _United States vs. Karl Brandt, et al._ (Case No. 1). This trial has become known as the Medical Case, because 20 of the 23 defendants were doctors, and the...

The defendant Gebhardt is also accused of special responsibility for these experiments and of participation in them. The evidence, however, proved that this contention of the in...