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especially after conferences and discussions with these gentlemen, led to the result that they advised me to make an experiment - rather not make an experiment, but try to gain admission to the famous Medical Academy in Berlin. This was extremely difficult; because there was a great demand for admission and about three... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 810,000 | 810,500 |
of January 1935 I became Generalarzt, and as army group physician. I was sent to Dresden. I remained in this position until 1938. At that time I was transferred to Vienna, still as army group physician. In this position, as army group physician and later as army physician, I worked under Field Marshal List. I participa... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 810,450 | 810,950 |
that we could fly to the South to ether to look for these gentlemen the We left at two o'clock and arrived in Munich at three-thirty. We went to the headquarters of the American Army. There the English and American Colonels reported, and then we -- that is, the person accompanying me and I were sent to the prisoner-of-... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 810,900 | 811,400 |
understand just what it might mean. I assume it is some mistake in the translation, but I never heard of any organization known as tho "War Crime Army", and if that could be clarified I would like to know exactly what it means. It occurs again, from time to time, in the text. DR. NELTE:I thank Mr. McHaney for pointing ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 811,350 | 811,850 |
Handloser, it is important. MR. MC HANEY:If the Tribunal pleases, I will not offer an objection to the admissibility of this document if it can be put in without reading or without any discussion with the witness. The Tribunal will note this is nothing more than an affidavit from the witness, stating that he did make t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 811,800 | 812,300 |
used here? AThat is as follows: If the word Sanitaesdienst is used, that means the duties referring primarily to the Medical Service in connection with the troops; that is, the medical tasks which are connected with Military Service, and where the medical superiors are bound to their military superiors; whether that is... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 812,250 | 812,750 |
Schreiber. Q.In what capacity were you, witness, in the headquarters when you reported to Halder? A.I was connected with him only in my capacity as an army physician. DR. NELTE:Mr. President, would you ask the prosecution whether Document 1758 is in connection with the defendant Handloser. If they do not intend to draw... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 812,700 | 813,200 |
the medical care of the prisoners of war, with all the volunteer medical help, and with all the transport system for the sick and wounded as far as it was carried on land. The army medical inspector was also compelled to maintain numerous connections and contacts with other authorities or institutes or organizations at... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 813,150 | 813,650 |
Document Book 1, page 18. You will also receive your diagram, to which you have sworn, on the Medical Service of the Wehrmacht. Before you explain your functions as Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Service I must point out to you that the Prosecution alleges that in your capacity as Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Service... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 813,600 | 814,100 |
were changed from the draft which I had submitted. Thus, for example, I had not requested that I should have a Chief of Staff from the Luftwaffe and an associate from the Navy. My application was that the Army Medical Inspector will be given the tasks of a Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Services, his working staff for ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 814,050 | 814,550 |
Wehrmacht Medical Service was competent only concerning those divisions of the Waffen SS which were committed to the Wehrmacht. They refused any interference beyond these divisions. Nothing was changed in this relationship when the number of divisions of the Waffen SS increased in the course of the years. What was the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 814,500 | 815,000 |
other manner being improperly conducted, said commissioner shall on behalf of the Tribunal stop said interview. 5. In such event said commissioner shall report in writing to the Tribunal the substantial and significant facts in relation to such interview and his reasons for having stopped the same. 6. Counsel conductin... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 814,950 | 815,450 |
Service to the Waffen-SS Would you please continue that part of your statement? A.I was saying before that the ruling regarding personnel in the Waffen-SS was most in reference to distribution of personnel to other parts of the Armed Forces. With reference to the settlement regarding material the matter was such; the C... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 815,400 | 815,900 |
connection since this will simplify the procedure and will confine it to the complexes and thereby the proceedings will be shortened, ask for permission to offer these affidavits as Exhibits 5 and 6 to the Hig* Tribunal. THE PRESIDENT:Which affidavit does counsel offer as Exhibit 5? DR. NELTE:HA 17, Document Book No. 2... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 815,850 | 816,350 |
desire in connection with that document. THE PRESIDENT:Counsel for defendant may proceed according to the plan which he has outlined, for the present at least. BY DR. NELTE: Exhibit 5 is an affidavit of the co-defendant, Professor Mrugowsky. It refers to the chart which he himself handed to the prosecution and which wa... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 816,300 | 816,800 |
with special tasks and they always led a special existence. Even in peace time there were only limited connections between the Army and Navy. As closed as the Navy always was, it continued to be that way toward the Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Service. It strictly observed its jurisdiction and whenever it was possibl... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 816,750 | 817,250 |
the other hand, I interpreted the decree of 1942 as it was thought and that was on the basis of its formulation that in the field of coordination and adjustment of personnel and equipment, I had the duty to do everything possible for the purpose of salvaging in order to make a just coordination; that is for the purpose... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 817,200 | 817,700 |
Medical Service could have not other task, that he interfered with the medical equipment of the Air Force in favor of the Army. It is quite understandable that the Air Force defended itself against that procedure as well and as long as it could, but because of the events in the winter of 1941 and 1942 the relationship ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 817,650 | 818,150 |
speak about these numbers in round figures I, as Army Medical Inspector, that is during the war years of 1942 to 1944, in agreement with OKW, had to deal with the standard figure of the Army of 10 million, and that was the basis on which I planned. The strength of the Air Force amounted at its peak to around two millio... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 818,100 | 818,600 |
same way the subordination of a Division Physician of such a system was carried through, that is Corps Army Physician, Troop Army Physician, Army Physician and Army Medical Inspector. There was a very clear subordination for the medical service of these divisions. But not for the medical service as such, no. QWhy not? ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 818,550 | 819,050 |
technical matters? AAn authority to issue orders as such presupposes a relationship of superior and subordinate; that is to say, that anyone who has a total authority to give orders must be a superior. Then, we further have to differentiate between a total authority to issue orders and a limited authority as it is here... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 819,000 | 819,500 |
include medical officers of the Waffen SS in your staff? AI emphasized before that I had no possibility to gain any insight into the personnel and material situation of the SS, and I was of the opinion that in this manner I would succeed in receiving such an insight. When my suggestion was rejected this channel, of cou... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 819,450 | 819,950 |
intended for larger functions, what were these larger functions which you were to assume from that period on? AThese interpretations are not quite correct. One must not forget that up to that time the working staff of the chief of the medical service of the armed forces was given by the people from the Army Inspectorat... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 819,900 | 820,400 |
among others, roughly speaking, hospitals, and medical troops and institutions of the Armed Forces; that is to say, the various Armed Force Branches. In addition to this limitation, the Chief of the Wehrmacht of the Medical Service had the obligation to report the results of such inspections to the various branches of ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 820,350 | 820,850 |
please state what can be understood in that connection under your jurisdiction generally? We shall come to the research question later. AAlready under the old Wehrmacht Medical Chief of 1942, and then strengthened by the Regulation of 1944, the mutual tasks in the field of Health Leadership, and that does not only mean... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 820,800 | 821,300 |
made a report to the Commissioner General because in the Service Regulations it said that he is to be informed about basic matters; and by that I also understand these important matters. As Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Service I had no authority toward the individual medical officers. I would have had to turn to the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 821,250 | 821,750 |
you have anything to say about this chart which bears your signature? AYes, I have something to say. First, I must explain the following: The heading of this chart is "Wehrmacht Medical Service (Sanitaetsdienst). When Mr. Rapp, who was interrogating me asked me about this Wehrmacht Medical Service (Sanitaetsdienst) he ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 821,700 | 822,200 |
my typhus research institute at Krakow, whether, to what extent and in what way, there was correspondence between the Typhus Institute in Krakow and the Typhus Institute of the Waffen SS I do not know. In any case if there was any correspondence it did not go through my hands. The Prosecutor pointed out in connection w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 822,150 | 822,650 |
in the morning? How was it handled, and how was it distributed? A.I shall take the Medical Inspectorate as an example. The procedure was the same with the Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Service. The so-called "open mail", the ordinary mail, was sent to a central office, the registry office, was opened by the registrar,... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 822,600 | 823,100 |
they were more or less important matters then I absolutely had to inform the Chief of Staff, because in my absence he had to know what was going on, what could happen, or what had been discussed. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to carry on business of our office, since in my absence the people always appreac... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 823,050 | 823,550 |
of the Army. In other branches of the Wehrmacht it was the same. It said that they are superiors of their medical personnel in question of medical service and they are troop superiors to medical chiefs under their command. Now I should like to say in this case we have a clear relationship in the Army Air Force and the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 823,500 | 824,000 |
responsible to the Army Medical Inspector, who, of course, since the Institute is directly subordinate to him, on the whole bears the responsibility for it. That was the case with the Academy and that was the case with the other institutes. But I consider it necessary to give an example of what these institutes were li... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 823,950 | 824,450 |
what is important for my case so that the Prosecution does not think that I am bringing the Army Physician into the case unnecessarily. Army Physician and Medical Inspector were two functions which up until then had required all the services of one man, a high military doctor. They were united and a sphere of work was ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 824,400 | 824,900 |
Ott in the very near future would give up his position, it was said, "Now or Never." This obvious mistake in organization must be done away with and therefore from my own experience, as well as on the basis of the fact that from the first World war and from the preceding campaigns in 1939 and 1940, came that decision t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 824,850 | 825,350 |
and supervision and advise. I should only like to add to clarify the matter, that the Wehrkreis physicians at home, I believe with one or two exceptions, and there were nineteen of them, that they were all even older than I and that a considerable proportion of them had formerly been my superiors as Wehrkreis physician... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 825,300 | 825,800 |
as an exhibit. THE PRESIDENT:Is it counsel's intention to read the document into the record or simply have it offered in evidence? DR. NELTE:I merely want to submit it. In the examination of the witness Gutzeit the contents were already presented. It is only the legal regulation of the position which the consulting phy... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 825,750 | 826,250 |
shall appear to such commissioner that the proper scope of such interview, as set forth in the petition therefor, is being exceeded by the counsel conducting such interview or that it is in any other manner being improperly conducted, said commissioner shall on behalf of the Tribunal stop said interview. 5. In such eve... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 826,200 | 826,700 |
NELTE:I thank you very much. SIEGFRIED HANDLOSER - Resumed DIRECT EXAMINATION (Continued) BY DR. NELTE: Q.Witness, when ending the morning session you were speaking about the relationship of the Chief of the Armed Forces Medical Service to the Waffen-SS. Would you please continue that part of your statement? A.I was sa... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 826,650 | 827,150 |
Book 2, page 27. Both these affidavits are dealing with the relationship of the Chief of the Armed Forces Medical services to the Waffen SS and I think it is necessary to submit these affidavits in that connection since this will simplify the procedure and will confine it to the complexes and thereby the proceedings wi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 827,100 | 827,600 |
in these affidavits. DR. NELTE:I merely wanted to submit and present these affidavits and should like to emphasize the most essential points and then leave it to the prosecution to put any questions they may desire in connection with that document. THE PRESIDENT:Counsel for defendant may proceed according to the plan w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 827,550 | 828,050 |
ask you to continue describing the relationship of the Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Service to the various branches of the armed forces. AI now come to the Navy. The Navy was an armed unit with special tasks and they always led a special existence. Even in peace time there were only limited connections between the Ar... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 828,000 | 828,500 |
any passage receive the authority to issue orders and it was not expressed in any passage; just as little was it expressed that he had the authority or the duty to exercise supervisory functions. On the other hand, I interpreted the decree of 1942 as it was thought and that was on the basis of its formulation that in t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 828,450 | 828,950 |
the war and that quite obviously appeared to be possible; that this difference in equipment could not be maintained. Therefore, it was quite clear to the Air Force that a Chief of the Armed Forces Medical Service could have not other task, that he interfered with the medical equipment of the Air Force in favor of the A... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 828,900 | 829,400 |
a witness, "how the numerical relationship between the Army and the other armed forces branches were, whether air force and Navy together were larger than the Army" and for that reason I should like to speak about these numbers in round figures. I, as Army Medical Inspector, that is during the war years of 1942 to 1944... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 829,350 | 829,850 |
were first subordinated to the Corps Commander, the Corps Commander to the Army Commander, the Army Commander to the Troop Commander and the Troop Commander to the Supreme Commander of the Army. In the same way the subordination of a Division Physician of such a system was carried through, that is Corps Army Physician,... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 829,800 | 830,300 |
armed forces. Q.In order to enable the Tribunal to understand better, would you state what difference there is between authority to issue orders as such and technical authority or authority to issue orders in technical matters? AAn authority to issue orders as such presupposes a relationship of superior and subordinate... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 830,250 | 830,750 |
they were officers of theArmyAir Force and Navy.Asuggestion of mine that a number of SS physicians were to be included into that staff was rejected by the Waffen SS. QWhy did you want to include medical officers of the Waffen SS in your staff? AI emphasized before that I had no possibility to gain any insight into the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 830,700 | 831,200 |
1 of the prosecution, page 18, and Exhibit 6. QWon't you please continue? Extensive authorities and extensive tasks were planned. Wherein were they extended? The staff that you mentioned was intended to be your working staff, intended for larger functions, what were these larger functions which you were to assume from ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 831,150 | 831,650 |
say something about this right of inspection or right of control that you started to assume from the 1st of September, 1944? AThis right of inspection is limited to the Sanitaetsdienst Medical Service, to the Medical Unit, among others, roughly speaking, hospitals, and medical troops and institutions of the Armed Force... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 831,600 | 832,100 |
Numeral II, Arabic 4a, what the duties of the medical Chief of the Wechrmacht will be. "A) In the medical scientific field uniform measures in the field of health guidance, research, and the combating of epidemica." Would you please state what can be understood in that connection under y our jurisdiction generally? We ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 832,050 | 832,550 |
obligation which would have resulted, but only after I received a confirmation from the Medical Chief concerned, would have been a report to my military superior; that would have been the Chief of QKW. And, no doubt I would have made a report to the Commissioner General because in the Service Regulations it said that h... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 832,500 | 833,000 |
called Medical Affairs of tho Wehrmacht" and to which you have sworn. Mill you please look a.t the chart and toll us what the document number is? ANo. 282 AIt is in Document Book I of the Prosecution. Do you have anything to say about this chart which bears your signature? AYes, I have something to say. First, I must e... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 832,950 | 833,450 |
which are unfortunately hard to road. Those notes arose from the two interrogations and some questions concerning the request to prepare such a sketch. The Prosecutor has here referred to a note No. 5, which indicates a note concerning my typhus research institute at Krakow, whether, to what extent and in what way, the... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 833,400 | 833,900 |
hardly happened Q.It will be very important whether you and knowledge of certain matter precisely, including reports. Therefore, I must ask you what was the course of the business, what happened when the mail was received in the agencies in the morning? How was it handled, and how was it distributed? A.I shall take the... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 833,850 | 834,350 |
my adjutant with mo because telephone calls were receive, etc., so that, in general, the person who want with no usually informed the Chief of Staff afterwards oven if I did net so so and even if I participated alone. If they were more or less important matter then I absolutely had inform the Chief of Staff, because in... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 834,300 | 834,800 |
and subordinate as well as the total power to issue orders? A.And, another one which we do not have a copy here is made equally clear - the case of the Army physician, the Army Corps and Divisional doctors of the Army. In other branches of the Wehrmacht it was the same. It said that they are superiors of their medical ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 834,750 | 835,250 |
Medical Inspector, had with these institutes? A.They were military organization headed by a commanding officer. That is to say, primarily the commanding officer is responsible for what happens in his military institute; he again is under and is thereby responsible to the Army Medical Inspector, who, of course, since th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 835,200 | 835,700 |
Army Medical Inspector and until you became Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Service your functions were separate. What was the reason for joining the functions of Army Physician and Army medical Inspector? I will, in a moment, point out what is important for my case so that the prosecution does not think that I am bring... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 835,650 | 836,150 |
of the brief duration of the campaigns, he visited my armies repeatedly. Now when I became his successor, I was immediately confronted with the question in Berlin, if there is a change now and it was known that Generalstabsarzt Ott in the very near future would give up his position, it was said, "Now or Never." This ob... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 836,100 | 836,600 |
the various armies as connection link to the Heeresarzt and the Army Medical Inspectors. That is a typical example of the fact that the expanded duties and. the expanded area required a new safeguard for the execution of control and supervision and advise. I should only like to add to clarify the matter, that the Wehrk... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 836,550 | 837,050 |
PRESIDENT:In what Document Book are these documents contained. DR. NELTE:You will find, these documents in Book No. 1, Page 36. It is document HA 19, and will be Exhibit No. 7, if the Tribunal accepts this document as an exhibit. THE PRESIDENT:Is it counsel's intention to read the document into the record or simply hav... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 837,000 | 837,500 |
may proceed with the examination. SIEGFRIED HANDLOSER - Resumed EXAMINATION (continued) BY DR. NELTE: Q.Professor, you said yesterday that the Medical Service of the Army, whose chief medical officer you were, had to care for the health of about ten million members of the armed forces. To clarify this Question I should... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 837,450 | 837,950 |
the front we had 6,048 doctors. In these six months 791 of them fell; that is, about 12.5 percent. 1,533 were wounded; that is, 25 percent. From the year 1943 as Army Medical Inspector I should like to mention that with the disaster of Stalingrad we lost 274 doctors at once. With the disaster of Tunis we lost about 250... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 837,900 | 838,400 |
a soldier in the company or battalion, is under the Curt No. 1 supervision of his immediate superior; that is, the chief physician in a hospital and above him the commanding officer of the medical section, and then the Wehrkreis physician, but that goes very far. Another example; stabsarzt Delmen, who has been mentione... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 838,350 | 838,850 |
of general medicine and receives an enormous amount from it, but by way of gratitude in a sense and as a natural consequence gives it a number of suggestions and experiences which only military medicine can collect. Military medicine is determined I by the character of military life and the military sphere. I must sum ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 838,800 | 839,300 |
phenomena, or did this military medicine exist everywhere? A.There was military medicine in all countries wherever there was an army. I personally had the impression because in 1936 after the first World War a German medical delegation consisting of one medical officer of the army, the navy and the Luftwaffe was under ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 839,250 | 839,750 |
dysentery, for example, I mentioned this example in my affidavit. THE PRESIDENT:Counsel, the Tribunal has listened to the witness for some time on general statements of the military profession which the members of the Tribunal understand, and I think it is about time that more concrete questions are asked and answered.... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 839,700 | 840,200 |
assume that fact. AIf it had become known to the responsible agencies, that they were criminal, then the agency which had official supervision would have been obligated to interfere. That would have been for the concentration camps. As far as I know, the Reichsfuehrer Himmler, Reichs Physician Grawitz, since the were m... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 840,150 | 840,650 |
be your answer? AIf theAir Force learned about it after the experiments were complete and saw that they had been conducted in a form which it did not approve, it would probably have drawn the conclusion for the future, that it would have to proceed much more carefully than in the first case. The second question whether... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 840,600 | 841,100 |
human material sent from Natzweiler, and that it was also necessary to have the apparatus and equipment with which the experiments were conducted sent from some other part of Germany, necessitating a considerable amount of detail in assembling in that one spot the persons who were going to conduct the experiments, the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 841,050 | 841,550 |
believe in connection with the chamber it Was learned her that the chamber was not delivered to Dachau at all but it was intentional delivered somewhere else to prevent it being made clear that it was to be taken to Dachau because the name Dachau had a certain special notoriety. That would fit into this question. Q.Wha... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 841,500 | 842,000 |
the whole camp or whatever it was that poor conditions began only as a direct affect of the air way, when, for example, instead of 10,000 there were suddenly 20 to 40,000 crowded there. Q.At what time did that begin, Dr. Handloser, when the crowded condition began at Dachau, according to your knowledge? A.I cannot give... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 841,950 | 842,450 |
agency from 1941 on, which was especially interested in it, that was the special hospital of the OKH at Brussels, but I might almost say that all research workers, the specialists at the front, not only surgeons, but also bacteriologists and those especially interested in chemistry devoted special attention to this fie... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 842,400 | 842,900 |
consulting physicians did that, whether in the military sector or the civilian sector makes no difference, and other workers did the same. Q.And concretely you were at the meeting in Breslau as Professor Gutzeit said? A.Yes. Q.What was the situation as far as you knew at the time as Army Medical Inspector, and what do ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 842,850 | 843,350 |
The research was not completed and went on, and there were many problems to be solved, a certain advance had been reached from my point of view because I could issue an order regulating prophylaxis and treatment in order to prevent relapses. THE PRESIDENT:There will be a recess of a few minutes at this time. (A short r... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 843,300 | 843,800 |
it? A.In order to give a concrete example, for example, the Special Surgical Hospital at Brussels submitted the reports about its work directly to the Army Medical Inspectorate; then for the consulting physicians there was a report-collecting agency within the Military Medical Academy. First of all, all of the reports ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 843,750 | 844,250 |
Staff. Q.Well, we shall question them as witnesses. According to this Ding Diary which I have already mentioned, by order of the Supreme Command of the Army, the Behring Works, the Robert Koch Institute, and the Typhus and Virus Research Institute at Krakow, are alleged to have been ordered to produce yellow fever vacc... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 844,200 | 844,700 |
taken from lice according to the Weigel method. This vaccine had already for many years before been tested in other countries and it had proved itself. It had not only been tested in the laboratories and in experiments on animals, but generally it had been used as a preventative precautionary scheme. The army was produ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 844,650 | 845,150 |
the affidavit by Dietsch. The Prosecution has not stated on what two Documents or which one of the two Documents if supports itself. Apparently, it is supporting itself on both. One mentions a discussion in November and the other one mentions a discussion of December 29th; now a preliminary question; do you know where ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 845,100 | 845,600 |
documents were already on the way, and that they would be presented to me at the very latest on the following day. However, this never happened and ever since these difficult days in solitary confinement,- MR. McHANEY:If the Tribunal please, first he asked him whether or not the meeting took place on the 29th of Decemb... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 845,550 | 846,050 |
with the chief of the general staff, where, for example, I think it was in January or March 1942, already 10,000 and several hundred cases of typhus had been registered, and I believe that 1300 of these cases were fatal. And I am unable to state anymore at this time if I reported to Generaloberst Halder the total numbe... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 846,000 | 846,500 |
that Gildemeister -- I don't know if it was in December or some other time -- told me that the production was facing difficulties because 50% and more of the laid eggs which were needed for it were being lost, and that in any case he could not succeed in gaining a success of 50% with them. Therefore, the vaccine which ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 846,450 | 846,950 |
following question: Will you please read the last sentence of the first entry which states: "Since animal experiment does not permit a sufficient evaluation, the experiments must be carried out on human beings." Now let us assume that this statement had been made in your discussions in this way. How would you have inte... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 846,900 | 847,400 |
doubt existed anymore with regard to the egg yolk vaccine, but people have different reactions to these vaccines, and if something of this kind is to be introduced with the Wehrmacht where millions of people are affected -- for example, until 1943 more than one million people has already been vaccinated with the Weigl ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 847,350 | 847,850 |
located: "Dr. Handloser, Inspector-General of the Medical Service of the Wehrmacht. "Dr. Conti, Dr. Poppendick, and Dr. Genzken. On this so-called Chief Committee, persons were instructed by you, Dr. Poppendick, and Dr. Genzken. Do you know anything about such chief committee? A.In connection with this I can only repor... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 847,800 | 848,300 |
he is offering it. THE PRESIDENT:The suggestion of the Prosecution is appropriate. The entire exhibit will be read into the record. DR.NELTE: "I, Professor Dr, Reiter, have been warned that I will be subject to punishment if I make a false affidavit. I declare under oath that my testimony corresponds to the truth and w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 848,250 | 848,750 |
the Weigl method and the vaccine produced at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin under the direction of Professor Gildemeister, according to the method of Geheimrat Dr. Otto of Frankfurt-am-Main. There followed a discussion in which the effect of the tested vaccine produced by the OKH Institute in Cracow and Lwow was p... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 848,700 | 849,200 |
as Document HA-24, in the Document Book 2, page 25. This will be Exhibit 13, and in agreement with the Prosecution, I will not read this affidavit, but only refer to its contents. It contains arguments to the effect that on the 29th of December 1941, no such discussion took place, and it also explains the name for Typh... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 849,150 | 849,650 |
Ding was at the meeting of the consulting specialists in May 1943, and made a speech in which he said that there was a connection between Buchenwald and the military Medical Academy. Will you please clear up this matter? ABetween the Military MedicalAcademy and the meetings, there was only one connection; that is, the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 849,600 | 850,100 |
on a large scale received ampules for experimental purposes. "The Military Medical Academy did not commission the Waffen SS to test serum conserves on prisoners. The entry in the Ding diary that serum conserves were to be tested upon request of the Military Medical Academy and again that in the examination findings wer... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 850,050 | 850,550 |
was never the intention and under the decree of '44 it would not have resulted that the chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Service was to prevent work's being done in general fields of research by anyone interested and capable; that he was to be eliminated by an order that he could not do it; that all others could do it. M... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 850,500 | 851,000 |
79*. ANo, I do not know these assignments. QWill you please look in the document book on page 74. This is Document No. 370, Exhibit 292 of the Prosecution. This is an affidavit of the defendant, Rudolf Brandt, which Brandt gave to the Prosecution. Ideals with experiments in the concentration camp Natzweiler. The defend... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 850,950 | 851,450 |
affidavit by Dr. Kramer, I ask that ****e submitted as Exhibit No. 17. Now the Prosecution has present **** excerpt from the report of the meeting concerning winter distress and distress at sea on the 26th and 27th of October, 1942, in Nurnberg. I shall have you shown the document book on the cold experiments. It is Do... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 851,400 | 851,900 |
Rascher is in accordance with the one given by him and Professor Holzloehner at the conference, or went beyond it, I can no longer recall. In well calculated contrast to those experiments with human beings, which my collaborators and I opposed, and which, as far as I know, were never approved by the Army Medical Inspec... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 851,850 | 852,350 |
objects to its admissibility on the grounds that it is not sworn to nor certified before a Notary Public or Dr. Nelte as defense counsel. DR. NELTE:I do not know whether Mr. McHaney has seen this certificate of the Notary Knobloch on the original. The affidavit is certified as follows: "I certified herewith the above s... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 852,300 | 852,800 |
with the aim of preserving health and efficiency. These questions were studied by the Research......./..... Group of the school in the Mountain Physiological Institute by specialists in the field of physiology. The head was the former Oberstabserzt Dr. med. habil. Hans-Dietrich Cremer. "4. Each and every scientific pro... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 852,750 | 853,250 |
detail. This is in Document Book II on page 1. In this case I would have to ask that I may correct this to the form described by the Tribunal later. This affidavit was given at a time when the ruling of the Court had not yet been made known, at least not at the moment when I addressed Professor Rodenwaldt. I ask that I... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 853,200 | 853,700 |
I pointed out that the report speaks only of animal experiments and experiments on 2 cadets at the military Medical Academy. The only thing important here is the following page 3 of the report; it says: "A transfer of these experiments to human-beings could not take place because I hod to return to my unit at the begin... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 853,650 | 854,150 |
which have already been admitted, it will be convenient. DR. NELTE:No. 252. As I have already said, Document book 13. QIn addition to the report already mentioned, which you did not know, there is also DocumentNO 372, an affidavit from the defendant Rudolf Brandt, who says that in addition to Karl Brandt and the other ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 854,100 | 854,600 |
barrage of gun-fire on the civilian population, the doctors at home were equally interested in wounds, injuries, and burns as the doctors at the front, so that finally one can say not only in the field of internal medicine and the field of communicative diseases, but also in the entire field of injuries the interest wa... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 854,550 | 855,050 |
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