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as little about this letter as the theres, but I would say that it would be directed to Oberoruppenfuehrer Pohl and that I received only a copy and then there was nothing more to be done about this. I simply glanced over the first part of the letter and probably only glanced at the second part, which concerned a public... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,440,000 | 1,440,500 |
from the documents that experimental subjects who had been sent to **tzweiler died on the way. Perhaps I drew sore association between that fact and this here, so that w uld be tho explanation for my statement here. As to the other statement in this affidavit, that tho experimental worsens were neither oriented nor cou... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,440,450 | 1,440,950 |
DR. KAUFMANNWe are speaking now, your Honor, of No. 1002-RS, Exhibit 44. QNow, please look at Page 57 of the German document book. This is 1582-RS, Exhibit 45, a letter from you to Rascher in which you tell him that, of course, prisoners will be gladly made available for high altitude experimentation. "as this letter w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,440,900 | 1,441,400 |
it. It is quite as possible that I had seen this message and knew its contents and sent it off. QBut I would think that a document with such contents would still be remembered by you today; and yet you say that you do not remember it? ANo, I don't. In view of the enormous number of orders that I got from Himmler, I cou... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,441,350 | 1,441,850 |
because I had to do with these matters only from a purely external, technical point of view, namely, submitting them to Himmler and then passing on his orders to the competent officers. With the best mind in the world I could not have concerned myself with the content of such a report. Q.They you will grant me that I a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,441,800 | 1,442,300 |
of such experiments is not so certain, nor is it certain that the experiments were carried out--or could have been carried out. Now, the question is, how did this sentence ever get into my affidavit? Because, on the basis of facts I could not have made the statement; I can not know more that Prof. Gutzeit knows. This a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,442,250 | 1,442,750 |
and thirdly, because I was ignorant of the details I was not in the position to calculate the implications of all these matters. I am convinced that if experiments are carried out of the s I have just described, it would not have to be repudiated by any one. DR.KAUFFMANN (Counsel for the Defendant Brandt): I have one o... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,442,700 | 1,443,200 |
superior on one hand and as a subordinate on the other. MR. HARDY:Well, we may well argue on that from now until Doom's Day, but I myself don't see where it has any materiality here. JUDGE SEBRING:Well, if you were to take the other end of the discussion and all that would be ever relevant would be simply the statement... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,443,150 | 1,443,650 |
of working, working late at night, carrying out many official trips, brought it about even at the very beginning that I was subjected to the same working conditions. He took me everywhere with him to finish up the work that he was doing so that to a certain extent I was his body stenographer and was almost like his sha... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,443,600 | 1,444,100 |
saw how understandingly and generously he received the many requests that were directed to him from members of the SS and from the entire population, how glad he was to help where financial or other assistance was necessary. Right at the beginning of my job Himmler gave me the order that every letter addressed to him s... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,444,050 | 1,444,550 |
the Nordic race. They were to be men from all nations and they should all be given an opportunity in peaceful competition to prove their fitness for this leadership. A greater German Reich was to be the predecessor for this greater community that was to follow, and it was his view that such a community could not long e... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,444,500 | 1,445,000 |
push the achievement of these goals into the far future, but I was also of the opinion that we should try in every way to make reality from these thoughts. I should like to emphasize that what I have here said is not bused on conversations between me and Himmler, but that I saw these things in his letters and statement... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,444,950 | 1,445,450 |
offended against the principles of loyalty which they represented for other persons and persons whom they led. I condemn such an act and I myself would never have done anything similar. However, I am also of the opinion that my behavior can only be justly appraised after all the conditions are taken into consideration,... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,445,400 | 1,445,900 |
Court will find itself almost impossible to place itself in the position in which I found myself at that time. They could not do so with the best will since that situation was unique and cannot be reconstructed. Nevertheless I call your attention to those three points of view that I have just enumerated when asking for... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,445,850 | 1,446,350 |
Tribunal I. Military Tribunal I is now in session. God save the United States of America and this Honorable Tribunal. There will be order in the courtroom. THE PRESIDENT:Mr. Marshal, you ascertain that the defendants are all present in court? THE MARSHAL:May it please your Honor, all defendants are present in the court... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,446,300 | 1,446,800 |
the affidavits which you signed then these statements cannot be based on what you said but are only based on the documents which have been submitted to you in connection with the subject? AYes, it can be based on the document and conclusions which I derived. QBut conclusions are not facts, are they? I now want to limit... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,446,750 | 1,447,250 |
create the impression that you yourself knew about the matter which is contained in that letter? Is that right? A.Yes. Q.Would that impression be incorrect? A.Yes, that impression is incorrect. Q.Did you choose this formulation consciously, or was it submitted to you without having realized what was behind it? A.I did ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,447,200 | 1,447,700 |
of the Luftwaffe, also carried out experiments in the Concentration Camp Natzweiler in order to discover effective vaccines against epidemic jaundice". You are saying then: "As I remember, Dr. Dohmann worked with Haagen in the year of 1944 in the Concentration Camp Natzweiler." When one says: "As I remember", one is ex... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,447,650 | 1,448,150 |
by the prosecution in order to attempt to prove that a certain circle of persons must have had knowledge of the experiments and the following words were put into your mouth: "Karl Brandt naturally knew of these experiments since he personally fostered them." I believe that this sentence was submitted to you, since the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,448,100 | 1,448,600 |
so, yes. Q.Did you discuss that report with your interrogating officer? A.It was not discussed but I think it was just shortly mentioned. However, I cannot remember any details. Q.You have said in your affidavit "SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Dr. Hirt had carried out experiments before 1942 by order of the Wehrmacht." Doesn't t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,448,550 | 1,449,050 |
that Hirt, when carrying out experiments by order of the Wehrmacht, was a collaborator with the Ahnenerbe--now I remind you, the date was 1940? A.Whether at that time he already belonged to the Ahnenerbe I do not know. Q.But you are saying that here. Are you now saying, under your oath, that you do not know it? A.I can... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,449,000 | 1,449,500 |
these documents, but that he himself knew and experienced what is contained in the affidavits. This is to be proved in the case of all of these documents, and in my opinion that is of high importance for the judgment of all the matters which are being touched upon by these affidavits; and I therefore ask you to permit ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,449,450 | 1,449,950 |
remember Haagen was carrying out these experiments?" A.It was submitted to me in that form, and I already pointed out that I could not differentiate between actual knowledge and the conclusions which I made from what the interrogating officer said, and from what I saw in the document. Q.At any rate you cannot allow the... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,449,900 | 1,450,400 |
on the stand signed then under oath and we maintain the affidavits. We are willing to stipulate that this witness will state that his affidavits were not based on his personal knowledge. He has testified that way already to four or five, I understand that he testified on direct that they were all not based on his perso... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,450,350 | 1,450,850 |
concerned here with time, time can make no difference as we are concerned with the finding of the truth. I an seeking truth and if the truth is in any way covered over, it has to be uncovered and clarified, but I think I an satisfied with the statements made by Mr. McHaney, namely, that he or rather the prosecution, wi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,450,800 | 1,451,300 |
not relying, on the affidavits, which were made by Rudolf Brandt, but they are only concerned with the interpretation of the documents and that is the way I understood Mr. McHaney, namely that he docs not wish to draw any conclusions from the statements of the defendant Rudolf Brandt; if that is correct, if I understoo... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,451,250 | 1,451,750 |
about that. Q.You were saying furthermore that a number of persons from Himmler environment were well informed about the experiments, and you were mentioning a number of gentlemen. Furthermore, in some vague form, you say "high representatives of the Luftwaffe, the army and navy were also involved in this matter." Alth... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,451,700 | 1,452,200 |
notification? AThis cannot be seen from the document. QIn that case, are you saying that your knowledge is merely based on the document and that, therefore, the distribution was only carried out on the desire of Himmler? AYes. DR. NELTE:I have no further questions to this witness. DR. MARX:Dr. Mars, Counsel for the Def... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,452,150 | 1,452,650 |
extremely dangerous, General Schroeder, Chief of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe, requested Himmler to place experimental subjects at the disposal of the Luftwaffe at Dachau. How did you get that knowledge? A.I have no knowledge about that. Q.Well then how is it that this passage gets into your affidavit? Well no ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,452,600 | 1,453,100 |
A medical certificate is to be filed in due time with the Secretary General. BY DR. MARX: Q.With the approval of the Tribunal I shall now continue with the examination of the witness. Witness, I shall show you the excerpt from the document book again. We had stopped at the point in number 4 where you said that "Schroed... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,453,050 | 1,453,550 |
Luftwaffe and consulting Hygienist in the Air Fleet Reich, was something else, that he had a civilian position at the University of Strasbourg, did you know that? ANot unless the document showed it. QDo you know it today? AFrom the files of the trial, yes. QDid you know what the work of an officer of hygiene was, what ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,453,500 | 1,454,000 |
proved I should like to maintain my point of view. But this isn't important. The only question here is the witness admits what was said on this point was not said on the basis of his own knowledge. QWitness, now I come back to my question, under No. 6, in this document which is before you you said that Professor Schroe... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,453,950 | 1,454,450 |
translation. Q.Then may I state in conclusion that all your assertion: which concern Professor Schroeder or the Medical Inspectorates of the Luftwaffe are merely assumptions or conclusions drawn by you from documents presented to you? A.Yes. Q.But you admit that you have no factual evidence from your own knowledge for ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,454,400 | 1,454,900 |
but this terrible drive which was planned and that these documents originated with you? That you yourself had passed on many documents and that you signed your name to this notation? And, today, you are telling us, under oath, that you've forgotten all this? Have I understood you correctly? A.Yes. Q.Then, in a short ti... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,454,850 | 1,455,350 |
document, witness, where it is supposed to have said that Blome called on Himmler from time to time to support Greiser's suggestion. Tell me of even one document if it exists at all. A.There are no documents for this. Q.But witness, the interrogator or the prosecution could not have shown you such a document then. He d... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,455,300 | 1,455,800 |
from Adolf Hitler and said that this Polish drive had to be stopped for the reason which Dr. Blome had given. Do you remember this letter by Himmler? A.Yes, but I was not shown this letter in the interrogation. Q.But, witness, in 1942 this letter went through your hands. A.It was one of a hundred thousand letters which... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,455,750 | 1,456,250 |
no doubt informed about these experiments." End of quotation. Do you want to maintain this statement today, Dr. Brandt? A.No. Q.You don't. Today, under oath, you say that that is not true? A.It was only an assumption on my part, which was put on record. Q.An assumption on your part. Did you have any factual evidence to... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,456,200 | 1,456,700 |
I can judge, yes. QNow, how did Himmler issue orders, and how did he insist on the strict execution of these orders? AHe issued his orders and took it for granted that they would be carried out. QWas there any objection possible? APerhaps one person or another could have said something, but he would not have had any su... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,456,650 | 1,457,150 |
his work which was already almost too much for him. QDo you know that Sievers went to Himmler himself and tried to have the assignment of fields of work alien to the Ahnenerbe removed? AYes. QDid Sievers talk to you about the work of Dr. Rascher in this connection? AI assume so; but I do not remember it. QYou knew Dr. ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,457,100 | 1,457,600 |
being entirely lacking in materiality or probative value. Counsel may proceed. RUDOLG BRANDT - Resumed CROSS EXAMINATION - Continued BY DR. WEISGERBER (Counsel for the Defendant Sievers): QDr. Brandt, before the recess I asked you whether Himmler attach value to the maintenance of greatest secrecy Regarding his researc... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,457,550 | 1,458,050 |
Q.I attach importance to whether you can remember that this letter was submitted to you during your interrogation of the 6th of September, 1946. Can you still remember that? A.I believe it was submitted to me. Q.If you look at the letter, the Document No. 320, Exhibit 103, are you then still of the opinion that Sievers... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,458,000 | 1,458,500 |
concentration camp of Sachsenhausen. Do you remember this cas A.Yes, Sievers reported this to me. Q.In what manner? Did he tell you that Professor Seip, the rector of the University of Osle, was in Sachsenhausen? A.Yes. Q.What do you know about the further development of this case of Professor Seip. Did Sievers make an... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,458,450 | 1,458,950 |
submitted to me I remembered it. Q.And there in the second paragraph you say: "The growing in hot houses is a very tedious process and the yield does not seem sufficient to carry out the planned experiments on a larger scale." You couldn't derive from this document that experiments were actually carried out, could you?... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,458,900 | 1,459,400 |
been carried out, on the basis of the previous file notation from June. A.Yes, that is to be assumed. DR. HOFFMAN:Thank you. THE PRESIDENT:Is there any further examination of this witness by defense counsel? DR. FLEMING (Counsel for the defendant, Mrugowsky) BY DR. FLEMING: Q.Witness, how often did you personally see M... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,459,350 | 1,459,850 |
did on the basis of the orders given me." We are there concerned with the section of the prisoners used for these experiments. You were just saying, witness, that you had no conception of Mrugowsky's activities. How then can you justify this statement that Mrugowsky must have known just as much about these experiments ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,459,800 | 1,460,300 |
for the first time during cross examination and I should like, therefore, to ask for copies of that document. MR. HARDY:I submit again, your Honor, that we do not have copies of this document. I just secured the document. The defendant is now on the stand. It would be unreasonable to expect me to recall the witness at ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,460,250 | 1,460,750 |
for that purpose. Q.Well, now you can recall the document which was introduced here by Prosecution wherein Himmler stated, in substance, that a man may be pardoned after being subjected to severe experimentation, and he used the following language. This is Document 1971BPS whichis on page 64 of Document Book 2, and it ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,460,700 | 1,461,200 |
of the teletype? Q.Do you have Document Book No. 3, the German copy? Pardon me, No. 2. MR. RAMLER:It is Document Book No. 2, Mr. Hardy. A.What page is it? Q.Page 66 of the English. Document No. 1971EPS. A. I cannot find it in this book. Q.Well, we will go on and disregard that question, doctor. A.But I can answer the q... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,461,150 | 1,461,650 |
people writing to me. When, however, they did write to me they meant Himmler. They did not mean me. That was generally kno** QI see, and your name became synonymous with that of Himmler's? Is that right? AThat is not what I want to express. When I answered "by order of Himmler the person concerned did perhaps not turn ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,461,600 | 1,462,100 |
any more than you knew about these experiments? AThat is something entirely different. Himmler personally informed himself about the experiments. I didn't inform myself about them. I explained yesterday that any such reports which one could recognize immediately as being medical reports or after reading the first parag... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,462,050 | 1,462,550 |
on the "flier order"? Is that right? AHimmler principally only signed one copy or, at the most, two copies Whenever copies had to be distributed among higher SS, and police leaders, these copies were either signed by the police, adjutant, chief adjutant, or b* me, and then transmitted. That is, they were signed and the... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,462,500 | 1,463,000 |
the request that the commanders of the constabulary and of the security police be informed and that they pass it on verbally to the subordinate offices. Furthermore, the Reichsfuehrer-SS requests that the competent Gau Leaders be informed verbally of this instruction." And boldly, the signature Rudolf Brandt. And a sim... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,462,950 | 1,463,450 |
he knew that this report would at any rate get to Himmler. That is the reason why my office had nothing else to do but receive the letter and then submit it to Himmler and then again receive the order by Himmler and transmit it. This is one of the cases that do not belong to it practically. Q.The letter is addressed to... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,463,400 | 1,463,900 |
gas experiments were carried out without any effect having been achieved. This complex of questions would interest SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Professor Hirt. In addition, SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Meine will shortly have something to tell you about it Verbally." Q.Now will you read that last sentence again? A. "In addition, SS-Ha... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,463,850 | 1,464,350 |
beings up to that period of time, and which would never be suitable for Germans be exterminated from the face of the earth and Warsaw the city of millions, which was always a place for disintegration and riots, be made smaller." That is a letter by Himmler to Obergruppenfuehrer Krueger, and I sent a copy of that letter... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,464,300 | 1,464,800 |
employees, as I understand it. It is a pretty big job for an office boy stenographer, isn't it? AI was Ministerialrat. These are two ranks below Ministerial Direct Director. QWell, even Ministerialrat, there weren't many of these, were there? AThere were quite a number of those. QYou were Chief of the apartment, though... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,464,750 | 1,465,250 |
three days in Berlin. Wolf, at that time Himmler's adjutant, holding the rank of a Sturmbannfuehrer, told me that Himmler had sent his clerk to a Fuehrer school. He furthermore said that his successor didn't quite live up to expectations. Since Himmler had been satisfied with my work, Wolf asked me whether I would be i... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,465,200 | 1,465,700 |
present in the court. THE PRESIDENT:The Secretary-General will note for the record the presence of all the defendants in court. Counsel may proceed. RUDOLF BRANDT -- Resumed THE PRESIDENT:Are there any further questions to be propounded to the witness Rudolf Brandt? (DR. NELTE in place of DR. SERVATIUS who represents t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,465,650 | 1,466,150 |
you did not sign them voluntarily? A.That is difficult to say, since my state of health at the time in effect made it impossible for me to control my own initiative. Q.You admit that your oral testimony now to a large extent contradicts your written testimony? A.Yes. Q.Both testimonies were under oath. You admit that? ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,466,100 | 1,466,600 |
shall read beginning with paragraph 3: "I never know Rudolf Brandt to be present when I repeated to Himmler, but I know that Himmler called for Rudolf Brandt, rang for him, and either dictated to him or gave him instructions." This is on page 2 in my German Document book. Shall I read this paragraph again? -- Paragraph... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,466,550 | 1,467,050 |
reports to him, Rudolf Brandt entered the office and took shorthand notes dictated to him by Himmler. Himmler did not even ask Rudolf Brandt to take a seat. He stood at the table taking notes. After having finished with his dictation, Himmler sent him out again. The subject of my report was an economic matter." The nex... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,467,000 | 1,467,500 |
affidavit of Dr. Fitzner on pages 5 to 6; Rudolf Brandt No. 8. The Hinze affidavit on page 7 is to be given the Rudolf Brandt No. 9. The affidavit of Dr. Lammers on page 8 is to be Rudolf Brandt No. 10. The affidavit of the witness Meehner on page 10 is to be Rudolf Brandt No. 11. The affidavit of Hanna Reitsch on page... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,467,450 | 1,467,950 |
this morning an application that the witness be summoned to Nurnberg, and that application has already been signed and delivered to the Defense Information Center in the Office of the Secretary General. MR. HARDY:Your Honor, I might add in regard to Otto Dietsch, I am informed he is to be indicted and go on trial at Da... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,467,900 | 1,468,400 |
official. At the end of the inflation, however, many officials were dismissed. I escaped this by giving up my position voluntarily, and I entered a bank as an apprentice. I finished my apprenticeship. During this time I tried to earn some money by giving private lessons, so that as soon as possible I would be able to c... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,468,350 | 1,468,850 |
same time I had a small hygienic bacteriological testing station for the units of the SS, which I had built up. Q.Were you at the front, and how long? A.After the end of the Polish Campaign in 1939 the regiments of the Waffen-SS were incorporated into divisions, and medical units were set up for the first time. In the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,468,800 | 1,469,300 |
can't do so at the moment, but I shall give it to the Prosecution. MR. HARDY:Thank you. BY DR. FLEMMING: Q.What did you do as chief of office 16 in the medical office of the Waffen-SS? A.As expert for hygiene I was in charge of all questions of epidemic control and hygiene, especially water supply and sewage in the pos... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,469,250 | 1,469,750 |
the Waffen SS. The epidemic control service, in the Waffen SS was your field of work as chief of Office 16? AYes. QSince when was all of that epidemic control of the Waffen SS under your charge? AFrom the end of 1940. QWere you responsible for epidemic control in the concentration camps as well? ANo, the concentration ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,469,700 | 1,470,200 |
Chief of the Hygiene Institute, were you also Chief Hygienist of the Waffen SS, I mean Chief Hygienist of the SS? AIf Grawitz, on the basis of his right to issue instructions, called upon me to deal with certain problems, I had to use this title, Chief Hygienist, but that was a rare occurrence and it was merely a paper... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,470,150 | 1,470,650 |
place once a week, and those specialists from the staff of Dr. Genzken who were frequently called upon by him to deal with specialized tasks had to take part in these discussions. Very soon we quit attending these conferences. We thought up excuses so that we would out have to go because those conferences were without ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,470,600 | 1,471,100 |
his staff. He ordered that Blumenreuther was to become a full member of his staff, and he was given a room in his office. I, on the other hand, was to stay in my institute because I was to continue my scientific work, and, in addition, I was to carry out the business of Hygienist on his staff. I was only loosely attach... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,471,050 | 1,471,550 |
the unit doctors to my staff and delivery was made by the Central Medical Depot of the Waffen-SS. The second big problem was the effort to attain central direction of epidemic control in all branches of the SS and in the Police. The necessary prerequisite had to be attained first. The first thing necessary was obligati... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,471,500 | 1,472,000 |
until the Tribunal ascertains just where you are beginning. DR. SEIDL:On Page 11, the third paragraph. THE PRESIDENT:I have the place now. Proceed. BY DR. SEIDL: "On 24 August 1944, upon request by the Chief Hygienist, Professor Dr. Mrugowsky, I was transferred from the field hospital of the Death-head Division to the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,471,950 | 1,472,450 |
be used very economically. I have not heard of antiseptics being used for any other purpose than delousing against epidemics, decontamination and disinfection. "Examining of disinfectors was carried out in disinfector training school of the Waffen SS at Oranienburg near Berlin. "Motorized sterilization and delousing un... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,472,400 | 1,472,900 |
number, remembering the same number when it is offered and read in full. DR. FLEMMING:Very well. This is Mrugowski Document Number 26. It is to be found in the German document book on Page 167; and I submit it as Mrugowsky Exhibit Number6. Number 8 in this affidavit reads: "The allotment of the disinfectant Zyklon B th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,472,850 | 1,473,350 |
the reorganization, whereas on the other hand the larger tasks, that had been planned as the tasks of the chief hygienist, were not given to him. Q.What was your activity in the Hygiene Institute? First of all what was the size of this Institute? A.The Institute, starting off on a small scale, developed into a rather l... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,473,300 | 1,473,800 |
one was the second one. We wanted to develop a vaccine against stomach typhpoid, and we had to ascertain just what its specific quota of bacteriological vaccine material should be, to immunize the human being, extensive knowledge of bacteriological chemistry, was a pre-requisite so that considerable work was to be done... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,473,750 | 1,474,250 |
Institute of the Waffen SS, have been compiled by me according to my best knowledge and belief. The list is not complete. It contains merely the more important works. Since I had no data for the majority of them, and therefore had to rely on my memory, it is possible that the titles for the works mentioned by me are no... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,474,200 | 1,474,700 |
according to my ability and judgment: To respect my teacher who taught me this art just as I do my parents; jointly with my life, if necessary, to share my goods with him; to look upon his children as my brothers, to teach them this art if they so desire without reward or written promise; to impart share of the precept... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,474,650 | 1,475,150 |
In presence of the masters of our school and of my beloved codisciples and before the image of Hippocrates, I promise and swear herewith that I will be faithful to the rules of honor and probity in the practice of medicine. I will assist the poor without fee, and never will I charge for my work a higher fee than it des... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,475,100 | 1,475,600 |
from this book to the Court as Mrugowsky Document 36. It is on page 22 of the document book. I should like to offer it as Mrugowsky Exhibit Number 9. The defendant has only one copy of this book itself. Consequently, I ask permission to show the book to the Prosecution and then to submit a certified copy in lieu of the... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,475,550 | 1,476,050 |
on page seven of the document, I intended to read all of that, and a small piece from page S. THE PRESIDENT:It seems to me that; reading so extensively into the record, if the Tribunal has this before it in this form, is rather unnecessary and takes up time for no particularly good purpose. Counsel may read a few of th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,476,000 | 1,476,500 |
DIRECT EXAMINATION (Continued) BY DR. FLEMMING: Q.I am not going to read any more from the medical report than what I have already read. I will now ask you: Do you maintain this high concept of your profession as before, or did you have strong reason in the meantime to revise it? A.As before, it is my opinion that only... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,476,450 | 1,476,950 |
sense of medical ethics and in reference to the concept of the relationship between the Physician and patient, and therefore what we understand by medical ethics can only conditionally be applied in this case. Q.Wherein do you see the basic difference between experimentation by physicians on patients or inmates of a co... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,476,900 | 1,477,400 |
is an organ of the State. Therein I see a very clear distinction between the two types of experiments. Q.What conclusions are to be derived regarding the permissibility of carrying out medical experiments on inmates from the fact that the State had to place these inmates at the disposal of the physician for the purpose... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,477,350 | 1,477,850 |
a large number of deaths is to be reckoned with, so that the speediest settlement becomes necessary. It is important to find out whether a certain drug or a certain vaccine can control this danger. Q.When making these presumptions, do you think that a physician is entitled to carry out experiments on human beings using... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,477,800 | 1,478,300 |
who are fully of their own opinion. Q.Do you think that it is justifiable that a physician who received the order to carry out experiments on human beings, should be treated differently than a chemist or any other expert who receives orders by the State, during the war, as a result of which his life or the life of othe... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,478,250 | 1,478,750 |
is not possible to find any volunteers and the State, in spite of that , thinks that the execution of the experiment is necessary, any human beings would have to be ordered to submit themselves to experiments. The State has the power to do that for the same reason as the State has the power to commit it's soldiers at t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,478,700 | 1,479,200 |
Dr. Grawitz in his position as Reichsarzt SS, or his immediate superior Himmler. Q.Who is responsible that the inmates, who were furnished for that purpose from Buchenwald, were selected from that circle of persons according to Himmler's orders? ASo far I hadn't known about that since I am not informed about internal w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,479,150 | 1,479,650 |
send Dr. Motthum to that meeting? AMotthum, who will testify here in detail at a later date, was an experienced front line physician. He participated in the first severe Russian winter. A second Russian winter was pending and the question came up whether the wounded at the East front could be protected against freezing... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,479,600 | 1,480,100 |
the hotels in a group. Mrugowsky, too, with all other participants was taken back to Munich in the same way. Consequently he had no opportunity to set foot in the concentration camp at Dachau. Furthermore, such a visit was not planned." During your stay in Dachau did you speak to any of Dr. Rascher's coworkers? ANo. QT... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,480,050 | 1,480,550 |
breeding diseases peculiar to insects, but not diseases relayed to human beings by insects so that there was no question of overlapping with the Hygiene Institute. An immediate discussion with Dr. May regarding details would be expedient. This I arranged, and it took place in Mrugowsky' quarters at the Institute of Hyg... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,480,500 | 1,481,000 |
are also charged with having carried out malaria experiments. Did you know Professor Schilling? ANo. QThen you never spoke with him? ANo. QDid you know that he carried out malaria experiments in Dachau? AAt the beginning, no; but one day I received from Grawitz a handwritten note of Schilling's regarding his work. It c... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,480,950 | 1,481,450 |
in these experiments? ARosenthal I did not know and, at that time, I didn't know Schiedlowsky either. QYou knew Professor Gebhardt? AYes, but only by sight. QWhen did you make Schiedlowsky's acquaintance? AAt the beginning of 1945 in Buchenwald. QDr. Gebhardt stated on the witness stand that he did not discuss his sulf... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,481,400 | 1,481,900 |
combinations of gas gangrene bacilli for the experiment. Do you know anything about that? A.No. Q.Mr. President, at this point I should like to read Mrugowsky Document No. 38 to be found on page 48 of the document book and which I shall put in evidence as Mrugowsky Exhibit No.13, paragraph 9 on page 52. This is an exce... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,481,850 | 1,482,350 |
of clinics and hospitals were permitted to receive such cultures. It is a matter of course that Professor Gebhardt, as chief of a hospital clinic of 1,000 beds, was among those permitted to receive then. Consequently there was no need for police permission, which a lay person would have had to have, nor did we have to ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,482,300 | 1,482,800 |
nor to use them. Consequently, unification was to be undertaken and for this reason this drinking water committee was formed. However, I did not concern myself with this problem in general, but turned to a special problem. QYou concerned yourself with a special problem. What was that special problem? AThis was the prob... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,482,750 | 1,483,250 |
only twice in all. The only problem which was discussed was the protection of the central water system of the large cities in case of gas warfare and the provision of portable drinking water installations. The commission never dealt with the question of making sea water potable or any other questions concerning sea wat... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,483,200 | 1,483,700 |
I calculated on the basis of statistical data that there were few cases but sufficient that fell to me. There were roughly a thousand but I did not concern myself with the germ that causes this disease, nor was there any equipment in my institute for breeding that virus. You need special technical equipment for that wh... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,483,650 | 1,484,150 |
Number 13, I should like to read Numbers 18 and 19 on page 56: "Number 18. I was also asked whether I had ever heard in the Institute or from Mrugowsky anything about: (a) Luftwaffe high altitude experiments at Dachau carried out by Dr. Rascher, (b) Luftwaffe freezing experiments at Dachau carried out by Dr. Rascher, (... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,484,100 | 1,484,600 |
contageous diseases, whereas, a few diseases which usually do not occur in Germany but are brought from outside, and are consequently bringing fear are characterized as commonly danger us diseases, and are regulated by a special law, Of all these six epidemics, typhus is one. DR. FLEMMING:In this matter I would like to... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,484,550 | 1,485,050 |
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