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shown here, which was prepared on the basis of statements by the co-defendant BRACK, which beside the square for Dr. CONTI has a little square with the name "BLOME". However, it has already been established that Dr. CONTI was concerned with the euthanasia program exclusively in his capacity as State Secretary in the Re... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 630,000 | 630,500 |
evidence for its charge. 111. As evidence Dr. Blome plans to use the following: He has named nine witnesses, all of whom have been approved by the Tribunal. The subject of their individual testimony has been stated in detail in my respective applications, so that the Prosecution is informed on this count. Dr. Blome pla... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 630,450 | 630,950 |
since. By way of prosecution, Dr. Blome will express himself on the question of biological warfare when he takes the stand in his own defense , and he will present the following facts: 1) As far as Dr. BLOME is concerned; all these measures were merely German defense measures; contemplated only in the eventuality that ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 630,900 | 631,400 |
presumptuos suggestion by HIMMLER to carry out experiments with humans to obtain an effective vaccine against plague, Dr. BLOME did not carry out. At no time was he a member of the SS, at no time he was never a medical officer; during this war he was not even a member of the Wehrmacht. DR. SAUTER:At this time I have co... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 631,350 | 631,850 |
Kauffmann for the defendant Rudolf Brandt. Mr. President, MR. PRESIDENT:First, in the dock, besides 20 physicians, there are three administrative officials who are indicted as accomplices in and accessories to crimes against humanity. My client, Dr. Rudolf BRANDT, took part objectively, i. e. by outwardly apparent acti... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 631,800 | 632,300 |
sense of the word, and for years was nothing but a stenographer. His later position his slow rise to an official withe the rank of Ministerial Counsellor did not, however, mean any fundamental, any essential change in his relations with HIMMLER. Rudolf BRANDT remained the industrious little employee; later on, too, he ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 632,250 | 632,750 |
together other than those that have already been called to our attention? The Tribunal will now be in recess until nine-thirty o'clock tomorrow morning. Official transcript of the American Military Tribunal in the matter of the United States of America, against Karl Brandt, et al, defendants, sitting at Nurnberg, Germa... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 632,700 | 633,200 |
his participation in the said experiments. The Indictment is entirely unsubstantiated in these respects. It has merely been assorted that the defendant Mrugowsky, together with other defendants, is guilty of a special responsibility and participation in these experiments. As regards the Sterilization experiments Count ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 633,150 | 633,650 |
above without the subjects' consent and that he committed neither murders nor brutalities nor cruelties, tortures, atrocities and other inhumane acts. As regards the freezing experiments I shall prove that the defendant Mrugowsky had no part in these experiments at all. The Prosecution have submitted conclusive evidenc... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 633,600 | 634,100 |
which was carried out upon the initiative of the SSTribunal at Buchenwald, it is not quite clear whether the Prosecution intend to charge Mrugowsky in the same way as the others. I shall prove in this case that he was not involved. One or the two other cases is the killing of six people by poison, mentioned by Dr. Ding... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 634,050 | 634,550 |
Counts 1, 2, and 3, as well as under Count 4 as a member of the SS after 1939. He is charged with special responsibility in the high altitude and freezing experiments, in the malaria and sulfanilimide experiments, as well as in sea-water experiments and experiments in respect to epidemic jaundice and poison, and finall... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 634,500 | 635,000 |
research done by Dr. Vaernet No. 1300, Prosecution Exhibit 259, bearing the signature, "By order Poppendick." 4. Balachowsky's affidavit No. 484, Prosecution Exhibit 291, about the ominous supervisory committee in which Poppendick, who is promoted Gruppenfuehrer by the author, is alleged to have been a member. 5. Rasch... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 634,950 | 635,450 |
1 against Karl Brandt and others, and the whole presentation of evidence by the prosecution, have refrained from specifying in greater detail the charges against every individual defendant. On the contrary, in this trial the prosecution has presented their evidence strictly according to the subjects dealt with and have... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 635,400 | 635,900 |
of the Reichsfuehrer SS". Professor Wuest was given the title "Office Chief", while Sievers' title of Reich Business Manager remained unchanged. His activity was and continued to be of a purely administrative nature. Sievers was neither in a position to give research assignments, nor was he able to interfere in any way... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 635,850 | 636,350 |
has alleged that Sievers realized the criminality of all the experiments, or at least must have realized it. Through the nature of his work, it is alleged, he was guilty of complicity in part of the crimes which are here charged. It will be my task to show and to prove to the Tribunal: first, to what extent the allegat... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 636,300 | 636,800 |
to undermine these positions and in painfully detailed work to make the preparations required for an armed uprising against a superior enemy. One of these men was Wolfram Sievers, whom a tragic fate has made a defendant in this trial. When Sievers, in the trial of Goering and others, proclaimed his membership in a resi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 636,750 | 637,250 |
Tribunal 1) that the resistance movement to which Sievers belonged was of considerable importance, 2) that Sievers as an exponent of this movement was of great importance in the Reichsfuehrung SS, 3) that Sievers had made preparations for an attack on Hitler and Himmler, the execution of which, however, was made imposs... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 637,200 | 637,700 |
were his tasks, authorities, and competencies, in his position as consulting hygienist and tropical doctor with the chief of the medical department of the Luftwaffe. This clarification will show: a) that Rose, despite his high position as vice-president and despite his high military rank which he finally attained, did ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 637,650 | 638,150 |
document but also concerning other existing correspondence, in a sense favorable to the defendant Rose. In the course of its oral statement regarding the extent of the accusations against Rose, as contained in the indictment, the prosecution has even gone beyond those contained in the indictment. Thus, it has also conn... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 638,100 | 638,600 |
Ruff deals merely with his participation in the high altitude experiments carried out in Dachau, as they are explained in Document Book 2. No further count of the indictment mentions Dr. Ruff, except for the question of "Conspiracy." Consequently, the defense on its part, can limit itself to dealing with these Dachau h... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 638,550 | 639,050 |
was, on principle, that he would carry out his experiments in the first place on himself and with the voluntary associates of his institute. 9) Both before and after the experiments at Dachau, Dr. Ruff, together with his associates, carried out countless experiments on himself which, for the most part, were more un;eas... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 639,000 | 639,500 |
of the direct examination of Dr. Ruff, I intend to have a short film, which had been made in the institute of the Defendant Dr. Ruff at the time, shown to the Tribunal. The purpose of this film is to enable the Tribunal and the Prosecution to make their own decisions about the high-altitude experiments carried out by D... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 639,450 | 639,950 |
Ruff. *************** DR. SAUTER:Mr. President, now the opening statement for the Defendant Dr. Romberg, follows. The defense counsel of the Defendant Dr. Romberg is at the moment engaged in an official journey for the purpose of interrogating witnesses. He yesterday telephoned me, saying that because of difficulties w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 639,900 | 640,400 |
having taken note of Rascher's fatal experiments, with the help of his superior, the co-defendant, Dr. Ruff, in having the low-pressure chamber immediately removed from Dachau, and this against the will of Rascher and Himmler. e) That Dr. Romberg never took an active part in the experiments of Dr. Rascher which exceede... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 640,350 | 640,850 |
2 to 3 criminals in Dachau. The prosecutor connects this lecture, as well as the remark, with Weltz, for the reason that Weltz at that time was in charge of the permanent research office on the effects of high-altitude and therefore worked at the same institute as Rascher. (German Transcript p. 217). This is merely an ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 640,800 | 641,300 |
to him, not to speak of his basic repudiation of experiments on human beings. A co-responsibility of Weltz for the freezing experiments, which only began in May 1942, that is, long after Rascher's dismissal from the assignment, cannot seriously be considered. Therefore, the prosecutor could present here only one single... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 641,250 | 641,750 |
beings were to be made only in the most pressing cases and only on criminal prisoners serving long terms. These prisoners would have to make themselves available voluntarily, and be rewarded by a termination or shortening of their sentence. 3. Thus Rascher's assignment to Weltz from the late summer of 1941 to the begin... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 641,700 | 642,200 |
that there was no question here of a prearranged meeting. I shall further prove that there were discussions that took place among physicians of equal rank in good faith. The experiments were to be carried out on the doctors themselves or on habitual criminals, who were to be rewarded with a mitigation of their sentence... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 642,150 | 642,650 |
fact, he opposed these experiments for so long that Himmler threatened to put him in a concentration camp as a traitor to his country. The chief prosecutor defines the goal, of German medical science as killing and extermination; in refutation of that I shall prove that Weltz' life work was devoted exclusively to the p... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 642,600 | 643,100 |
a criminal organization, after 1 September 1939, although he knew that the SS was used for the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In refutation of those accusations counsel for the defendant Brack will present testimony or witnesses, documents, films, and eye witnesses and also by showing the film, "... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 643,050 | 643,550 |
basis of a carefully formed conviction deriving from his own experiences, education, spiritual orientation, and personal study, answered in time affirmative the question, which comes up in connection with the above-mentioned problem, as to the justification of euthanasia in such cases. Brack did not participate in the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 643,500 | 644,000 |
the assumption that in the execution of individual experiments or series of experiments several of the here present defendants or the agencies they represented at that time had taken part or were interested in them or should have had knowledge of them. However, the Prosecution did not leave any doubt that in its opinio... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 643,950 | 644,450 |
on his own body and studied in experiments on his own person, the results up to the limit of his physical endurance. At the Research Institute for Aviation Medicine in Berlin Dr. BeckerFreyseng carried out on himself oven the most dangerous experiments that ever were carried out there and thereby contacted a serious ca... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 644,400 | 644,900 |
who never was authorized to make independent decision. This, High Tribunal, is the picture of the character of the defendant Dr. BECKER FREYSENG, which the Defense will prove in detail, in order to demonstrate, that in no way Sees it conform with the Description of a criminal conspirator the prosecution has drawn. Furt... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 644,850 | 645,350 |
experiments. With the planning and conduct of the freezing experiments. Dr. BECKERFREYSENG had also never to do. Of the fact, that freezing experiments had be conducted on human beings, he personally heard only through the lecture by Prof. HOLZLODHNER during the Nuernberg Conference of Luftwaffe Physicians in October 1... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 645,300 | 645,800 |
bacteriological questions, and that already before Dr. BECKER FREYSENG came to the branch in the fall of 1941. In the case of the defendant Prof. Dr. SCHROEDER I dealt already with the dual position of Prof. HAAGEN the different types of research orders he worked on, and therefore how the ordering agencies opposed each... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 645,750 | 646,250 |
of the experimental subjects in evaluating subjective statements, like thirst, hunger and other complaints. Dr. BECKER FREYSENG, therefore, is of the opinion to have done all that was at all possible according to the well-known standard of medical science, especially as the supervision of the experiments had been put i... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 646,200 | 646,700 |
conspiracy of all the defendants, the Prosecution has presented two points in detail. 1. The pervasion and corruption of German medical science, primarily the young medical men, by National Socialist ideas, culminating in a disregard for human life which found its expression in the experiments on concentration camp inm... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 646,650 | 647,150 |
official positions were not open to him on account of his anti-Nazi convictions. In 1941 he was drafted as a private and after 6 months became Unterarzt in the Luftwaffe, since he was a medical man. An Unterarzt in the German Wehrmacht does not have the rank of an officer. Through an accidental meeting with his former ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 647,100 | 647,600 |
this drug was absolute innoccuous. The drug was called "Wofatit SW" "IG Drug" or "Schaefer Drug." It is fundamentally and also in its way of presentation with only very slight differences the same drug which was invented by the American Dr. Ivy and used by the US Armed Forces. The Schaefer drug was completely ready at ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 647,550 | 648,050 |
net even assigned to the commission which had been appointed to determine the conditions for the experiments, because he is known to be an opponent of the entire enterprise. Another chance for preventing these -- in Schaefer's opinion completely pointless -- experiments on human beings with the Berka drug, whether in t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 648,000 | 648,500 |
of the Indictment, common plan or conspiracy: In the first place, the fact of a conspiracy requires a common plan or agreement between at least two persons. The prosecution should, therefore, have stated: 1, when; 2, where; 3, between what persons this common plan or this common agreement was reached; and 4, what the s... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 648,450 | 648,950 |
and 3 of the Indictment (war crimes and crimes against humanity): Under these Counts the defendant Hoven is accused of having carried out on inmates of the concentration camp Buchenwald: a, typhus experiments, and b, the euthanasia program. As an introduction I should like to point out the following in order to clarify... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 648,900 | 649,400 |
Kogon, page 1192 of the German transcript. Only the performance of tho typhus experiments in Block 46, However, can be considered a criminal activity in accordance with Law No. 10. The manufacture of typhus vaccine in Block 50 is beyond any doubt neither a war crime nor a crime against humanity. Only in Block 50, the s... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 649,350 | 649,850 |
stated, corroborating the testimony of the witness Dr. Kogon, that all the typhus experiments were begun by Dr. Ding, (page 1360 of the German transcript). Only Dr. Ding infected the experimental subjects. The defendant Hoven, as the witness Kirchheimer explicitly stated, was not in a position to prevent the experiment... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 649,800 | 650,300 |
46 and 50, and it will be proved that his activities as deputy consisted only in this assistance to the political prisoners. As far as the selection of the persons for typhus experiments is concerned the testimony of the witness Dr. Kogon proved that the defendant Hoven did not select all the test persons for the typhu... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 650,250 | 650,750 |
personally ordered the transfer of at least 300 to 400 Jewish prisoners of various nationalities to the Bernburg euthanasia station where they were killed (page 107 of the German and page 59 of the English transcript of 9 December 1946). The high Tribunal will remember the chart which was explained in this court by the... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 650,700 | 651,200 |
prosecution thus far only the following facts stand: The defendant Hoven participated in the killing of prisoners. The killing of those prisoners, however, was in no wise connected with the euthanasia program. With regard to this I shall prove that: 1) the number of these killings was considerably lower then the witnes... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 651,150 | 651,650 |
September 1939; b) the state had placed them in the ranks of the SS in such a way as to leave them no choice whatever in the matter (page 16527 of tho German transcript of 30 September 1946.) On the basis of this decision of the IMT I shall prove that the defendant Hoven received an order on 26 August 1939 to report fo... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 651,600 | 652,100 |
this reason I am going to begin by replying in my defense to the question: who is this Dr. Beiglboeck? 1. Personality: As the son of a country doctor, he had personal experience from the days of his early childhood of the joys and sufferings of the medical profession and chose out of idealism the occupation of a doctor... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 652,050 | 652,550 |
happen that such men found themselves in the defendants' dock." I am not going to reply to the question of the ethical motives as a defense counsel until I deliver my final plea, and I am going to limit myself at this stage to the purely legal aspect of the subject. The reply is: Beiglboeck was forced to undertake the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 652,500 | 653,000 |
so-called conspiracy. At this stage of the proceedings I shall deal only very briefly with the legal aspects saying that the Prosecutor had no justification at all in this trial to use the argument of conspiracy since the most important element, namely, the legal foun dation is lacking: if we turn to 'Control Council L... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 652,950 | 653,450 |
like murder, rape, and other cases of inhuman treatment of the civilian population. It is an old experience of law that the prosecutor speaks louder and more emphatically whenever the facts as such furnish only little proof. Therefore, the chief prosecutor said comparatively little about the mass murders which have sho... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 653,400 | 653,900 |
subject of this indictment, such as those performed by the sadist, Dr. Rascher; but one thing will clearly result from the submission of evidence, namely, that the chief prosecutor is wrong when he raises the collective suspicion in front of world public opinion by declaring that none of the experiments with which the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 653,850 | 654,350 |
time when a great nation was fighting for its existence. This also led an internationally recognized scientist like the clinical physician Eppinger to favor the re-examination of the two methods. I shall prove this by the hearing of the defendant and by evidence which the famous pharmacologist of Berlin University, Dr.... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 654,300 | 654,800 |
erected by the prosecution on the subject of sea-water experiments will collapse like a house of cards and give effect to my submission to acquit my client, Prof. Dr. Bieglbeock. I should be happy about this because I would thereby have contributed for my part to preserving an eminent physician and man for my country w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 654,750 | 655,250 |
them now. The defendant Dr. POKORNY will, in addition, reveal what the Prosecution could not present, the fact that he received an answer to his letter and that he in turn answered once more, so that in all the crimes with which he is charged his active participation involved only letters. The defense will show that HI... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 655,200 | 655,700 |
activity up to 1942 as well as during his period of military service. Evidence as to Dr. POKORNY's attitude will furthermore be given by numerous affidavits which will appear in the document book. DR. HOFFMAN:The opening statements have now been concluded. MR. MCHANEY:If the Tribunal pleases, the Prosecution has severa... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 655,650 | 656,150 |
conspiracy is made out normally by showing the participation of the defendants or their connection with the subsequent crimes that is, with the war crimes as alleged in Count II or the crimes against humanity as alleged in Count III, and which is not normally the subject of separate proof in and of itself. And, I shoul... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 656,100 | 656,600 |
the defendants, would put an intolerable burden upon the Prosecution in preparing the necessary briefs for all 23 defendants, and would also require extended study by the Tribunal before a ruling could be reached, and this would result in a delay in the continuation of the presentation of the defendants evidence for, I... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 656,550 | 657,050 |
make proof of experiments which are not particularized, in sub-paragraphs of paragraph 6. And, once the Tribunal has decided one way or the other on that question then it will be either incumbent on the defendants to meet that proof in their case or they may if they chose disregard it. Of course, the evidence, I think,... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 657,000 | 657,500 |
during the whole period of preparation, for which counts it must prepare material. For example, in the case of Defendant Mrugowsky, I have five counts of Count II of the Indictment. I have stated that the charge is not founded and should be dismissed. The question now is whether I must call witnesses for those five cou... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 657,450 | 657,950 |
defense counsel who objected to Count I this morning. MR. McHANEY:I would like to state the Prosecution recognizes that the issue of the legal basis of Count I is being raised by all defendants. They need not make their application. We concede they all raise this question, although it has not been mentioned by all of t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 657,900 | 658,400 |
that there is no comparison between the two. The prosecution has made an effort to advise each and every defendant in the dock of the major charges against him. We now hear the suggestion made that we are to be limited because of the particulars which we have given. The crime charged against these defendants is that th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 658,350 | 658,850 |
it. THE MARSHAL:The Tribunal is again in session. THE PRESIDENT:The Tribunal has taken note of the questions raised by the defense counsel as to whether, as a matter of law, not a matter of fact, the defendants may be held to answer the charge of conspiracy to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. This is a ba... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 658,800 | 659,300 |
to anything in connection with that matter, and if the announcement, if any, is made as soon as possible, with due regard to the matter which I have just mentioned, that would be satisfactory to the Tribunal. MR. MCHANEY:Very well, Your Honor. THE PRESIDENT:Does that answer your question? MR. MCHANEY:Yes, indeed. DR.RA... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 659,250 | 659,750 |
when all defendants may be heard upon the matter. The ruling of the Tribunal is made strictly without prejudice to the right of any defendant to urge the matter of the conspiracy charge and its inapplicability to any or all defendants. The right is expressly reserved to any or all defendants. The right is expressly res... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 659,700 | 660,200 |
of the Tribunal I shall call the defendant to the witness stand at once. THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal grants the permission. Defendant Karl Brandt will take the witness stand. MR. MCHANEY:May it please the Tribunal, we have no objection to the defendant Brandt taking the witness stand at this time. However, I wish the r... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 660,150 | 660,650 |
first psychologist in Zurick, Professor Borel, recently mentioned by Professor Leibbrand. AWhere did you study until the completion of your studies? AFirst of all at Jena. I should like to point out that those days were very difficult ones for us. It was the time of inflation with all its social complications. My studi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 660,600 | 661,100 |
the skull played a particularly leading roll; surgery upon extremities; and, one important chapter, injuries to the spine. Perhaps I shall have to go into this more thoroughly. Every assistant doctor at the hospital ay Bergmanns Heil found it his most difficult task having to take care of patients with injuries to the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 661,050 | 661,550 |
hospital attending to Wilhelm Brueckner, as a doctor, and then in the autumn of 1933, I went back to Bochum. In 1934, in January, my chief at Bochum, Professor Magnus, was called to join the University Clinic at Berlin, meanwhile having been vacated by Professor Bier. Q? You, yourself, were at Bochum. And, who became y... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 661,500 | 662,000 |
carried out during inspections of choice. But it would be wrong to say that I had played any leading part at all in any scientific field. Q.Did you carry out any laboratory work? A.Apart from the fact that temporarily I was the head of the laboratory at the clinic, I did not carry out any laboratory work. Maybe I might... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 661,950 | 662,450 |
of course, I had a very serious arguments with Streicher, which, as far as I was concerned, had two practical results, Firstly, the president of the police suggested to me that if possible I should avoid coming to Nurnberg, where as on the other hand I received the information from the Fuehrer never to go to Nurnberg w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 662,400 | 662,900 |
addition to four thousand patients belonging to the various clinics, all the pre-clinical institutes were there, the pathological and anatomy institutes, and so on. Arising from this connection were building plans. I carried out the planning for the evacuation hospitals during the war which then received the special na... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 662,850 | 663,350 |
from us. From the start, because of family acquaintances, I was close the the circles of Friedrich Naumann, and arising from this connection the decision to become a member of the Party was not very difficult. QDid you belong to any other medical association? AI became a member of the National socialist League of physi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 663,300 | 663,800 |
Infantry Regiment. It was in Blankenburg/Hars and later after I became medical officer in the Army I served in hospitals where 1 served my yearly duties. I have been assigned to Berlin as a surgeon. QAnd what activities did you exercise during the War? ABy order of theArmy Inspectorate I was assigned to the Fuehrer's H... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 663,750 | 664,250 |
the Ukraine to another territory we had the transport something like 18,000 human beings. QAnd how did these two staffs collaborate personally? Did you have any closer relation with Reichsarzt SS Grawitz? AI had no personal contact with Grawitz. He was a typical subordinate of Himmler, judging from general utterances, ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 664,200 | 664,700 |
of hospital buildings of the entire Germany. Before the beginning of the War I made many journeys abroad with an architect and I inspected hospital buildings and studied their organizational frame work and that needed certain knowledge of the situation of hospitals in Germany itself. before the War, and I am just givin... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 664,650 | 665,150 |
was intended for these hospital institutions which were all under my administration. These were busses and trucks which were rebuilt in accordance with its purpose and which had on their outside the designation Hospital Institution Action Brandt. There wasn't one of our destroyed cities where these busses were not used... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 665,100 | 665,600 |
notes and translations thereof. DR.SERVAT1US: Mr. President, in the trial before the International Military Tribunal, it was permitted for the defendant to testify on the witness stand and to take notes with him in order to simplify the proceedings in view of the extensive aterial, otherwise it is not easy to testify f... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 665,550 | 666,050 |
inadequate supplies of winter clothing. I went on and followed the river toward Moscow until I came to the bandaging places and there I learned from the replacements that there were inefficiencies here. about 30 kilometers from Moscow at a small station by the name of Moscheisk freight carl had piled up with Soda water... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 666,000 | 666,500 |
not adjusted properly to the Luftwaffe and the Navy, because the Army itself was not represented, but that the Chief in charge of all three branches was of the Army. Q.Now, would you please look at the decree itself and comment on those points where you yourself are named, that is "3" and "4" of the decree? A. "3" says... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 666,450 | 666,950 |
instructions from Hitler. Q.Then you did not get any general authority, but special instructions in each case? A.In the course of the next two years I estimate 15 to 20 special decrees were signed by Hitler for the individual tasks. It may be one or another of them can be submitted as a document. Q.Can you mention any ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 666,900 | 667,400 |
Q.Now will you please put this decree to one side? Now, did you built up a big agency for these duties? A.No, In Berlin I had a sort of post mail office in the Reich Chancellery from where we had courier connections and documents were brought to me constantly. The mail which we received was first of a quite general nat... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 667,350 | 667,850 |
two things; first, the necessity for me, from the small office of three of four persons which I had at that time, to develop two offices, one dealing with materials, planning and economics, and one with the scientific matters, the office for science and research. These two offices, together with me, had to coordinate f... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 667,800 | 668,300 |
for science and research did not give any research assignments in that precise form. It supported research. It must be considered that in 1943 and '44 in general there were other demands on the medical and health service, not only in thwarting scientific activity, but the Ministry of the Interior and the Propaganda Min... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 668,250 | 668,750 |
the universities had not been given so that teachers were suddenly drafted, and the training of the students was distorted in some cases. Considerations of basic research had been overlooked, and the idea of research on the basis of expediency prevailed. The lack of interest of the universities themselves led in 1943 t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 668,700 | 669,200 |
about it to Himmler, a copy of which is here. It is Document N0-012. That is also in Volume I of the document book. I am not certain where it is in the document book. It is a very brief letter. I shall read it so that the Court may take notice of it. "Berlin, 8 March 1944. The General Commissioner of the Fuehrer for Me... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 669,150 | 669,650 |
competent office in the Speers Ministry. After about four months, at the beginning of 1944, I received the same requests again. I took them, myself, to the head of the Armament Delivery Office,; his name was Doctor Schieber. I learned from him that he could not deliver the 100,000 gas masks that were asked for because ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 669,600 | 670,100 |
me control of gas itself, gas production. This was necessary, because in view of the raw material situation, the previous counter-measures which we had produced could no longer be produced, so a substitute material had to be selected, and these had to be tested with our German gases. It was necessary to be informed abo... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 670,050 | 670,550 |
especially these in connection with Speer because of the ventilation argument; they were taken care of together with ventilation problems on the Navy. It was a program which affected perhaps more people than any otter program of the Ministry for Armament and War Production. I did not establish any special agencies for ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 670,500 | 671,000 |
an institution of the Reich minister of Labor, in this case Dr. Delte, and to which other social institutions were added. These three organizations generally came to the worker in industry; and thus it occurred that in a real case of emergency the jurisdiction was left unclear. Now, in the year of 1944, the first air-r... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 670,950 | 671,450 |
failed completely since I could not do anything in any matter at all. I then spoke on the telephone to Dr. Conti, who confirmed the fact that he had forbidden his subordinates to speak to me. Consequently, I went to the headquarters of the Fuehrer and told him that I wanted to resign my offices since under these circum... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 671,400 | 671,900 |
my own tasks I must point to the position which the new Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Service received from the strength of this decree. That situation was that within the Wehrmacht the Fuehrer was the Supreme Commander. To him were subordinate, as the next executive agency, the Chief of the OKW, Field Marshal Keitel.... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 671,850 | 672,350 |
his successor, General Schmundt, was in close connection with Martin Bormann, and the General of the Waffen SS, Fegelein, who at the same time was a liaison man of Himmler to the Fuehrer. If it is of importance for the creation of that decree, I should like to point out one sentence with reference to my special view of... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 672,300 | 672,800 |
with merely a technical expression. BY DR. SERVATIUS: QWitness, would you define your attitude to that decree, especially in relation to former decrees I and II? AThrough Decree III of the 15th ofAugust 1944, where at the same time I was appointed the Reich Commissioner for Medical and Health Services, it can be said t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 672,750 | 673,250 |
tries to recall the situation as it prevailed at the time in one's memory, one knows that it was not possible to do anything by long ways of negotation and to clarify matter it was necessary to act immediately and make decisions and to do everything which seemed could be attained and which seemed necessary. It happened... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 673,200 | 673,700 |
hearing that it is exhibit #3. QWitness, would you define your attitude to this chart and say something about its creation? AThe decisive thing about this chart is that at the head, the designation "Organization of the German Medical Service under Reich Commissioner Karl Brandt" was struck out and this was then signed ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 673,650 | 674,150 |
of Education and that can very clearly be seen, and comprises, as the word science generally does, not only medical matters but also philosophy and astrology. This is similarly the case with the other offices described here. The Military Medical Academy is an institution of the Armed Forces. The row of positions as the... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 674,100 | 674,600 |
these mentioned tasks of my offices I bore a personal responsibility. The tasks of the General Commissioner, the co-ordination between Wehrmacht and Civilian Sector, that is in reference to medical and health matters, continued to exist as the basical task of the Reich Commissioner. The Decree 1 of 1942 which referred ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 674,550 | 675,050 |
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