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pieces of information in 1933 which were the first of this kind and which therefore impressed themselves on my memory. I heard the first thing from Socialist friends in the very beginning. I heard that people were put into bathtubs with water of 80 degrees centigrade and that their skin was then peeled off while they w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,755,000 | 1,755,500 |
the German people I personally heard nothing about it; that is, on my many trips and many talks I heard nothing about it. I do not imagine that many people knew about it. Q.And I understood you to say that the defendant Sievers told you something about those things; during the course of any of his conversations did ha ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,755,450 | 1,755,950 |
any moral justification for his staying on his post. We did not discuss the technical details. One must remember we generally talked in the Ahnenerbe, and even if we were pretty safe there, if a third person heard one word, -- if a third person heard that Sievers was talking to me about these things that would be enoug... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,755,900 | 1,756,400 |
discuss that with you? A.No, not in detail. Q.Did he discuss with you anything about experiments conducted at Sachsenhausen and Natzweiler concentration camps from about June 1943 to about January 1945 to investigate the causes of and inoculation against epidemic jaundice, wherein experimental subjects who were concent... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,756,350 | 1,756,850 |
nothing about that in general. I only know that it was very quickly carried out. Q.Do you have any idea, that foreign nationals who were so convicted would be sent back to Germany to be executed? A.I know of shootings, even without a sentence, and I don't know what was done if such quick justice was not carried out. Q.... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,756,800 | 1,757,300 |
I.M.T., and tell him you had information concerning medical experiments. During tho past two years, since the end of the war did you write to anyone and inform them that you could enlighten them as to some of the activities regarding the medical experiments? A.I did not write to Mr. Hardy. Q.Did you write to anyone? A.... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,757,250 | 1,757,750 |
A.I didn't say nobody. I meant nobody who was not politically active against the Nazis. Q.We shall see. The question is: Did the general public, the German people as a whole, or did only a few people know, or did certain groups know about these things? Now he asked you yesterday spoke of the Fuehrer Order No. 1. Then y... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,757,700 | 1,758,200 |
of my own work. QYes, but, of course, I have to ask you, in judging these things, to distinguish between your specific case and the case of the person who did not have these special connections which you had. AAnormal German would not dare to think to get into a concentration camp. QCould the members of the camp admini... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,758,150 | 1,758,650 |
feeling that there is something going on, something that one wouldn't like to get involved in - that was the intended effect of the existence of the camps. QDid any one of the public get the idea that experiments on human beings might be carried out? AI can only repeat that no one had any idea of any details or had any... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,758,600 | 1,759,100 |
about anything else. That was the whole psychological prerequisite for holding National Socialism power. Nothing could be done with these people that didn't know anything. QNow, if a general, for example, says here on the witness stand in answer to the question "Did you know what happened in the concentration cemps?" I... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,759,050 | 1,759,550 |
Doctor Nelte has indicated, under the system of government which citizens of the United States have known for one hundred and sixty years, it is difficult to understand the reign of terror under the guise of duly constituted and organized government which you have delineated in your testimony. Now do you mean to say it... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,759,500 | 1,760,000 |
that be true, then the Tribunal will not press the question, because it would be apparent that such an answer would be simply an opinion of the witness, is that correct? AYes. JUDGE SEBRING:Thank you. THE PRESIDENT:Counsel may proceed. BY DR. SERVATIUS: QWitness, with your personal acquaintance of the resistance moveme... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,759,950 | 1,760,450 |
to reveal to the world what he discovered. Did you hear anything about this--about such a man in an important position working at Auschwitz, who wanted to in form the world? ANo, I know nothing about it. Of course, that doesn't prove anything. There were so many people who did not know each other. That doesn't prove an... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,760,400 | 1,760,900 |
all conditions. DR. VORWERK:Thank you. No further questions. DR. FROESCHMANN:Dr. Froeschmann for Vikter Brack. Q.Witness, yesterday you said that shortly after 1933 you got one or two of your acquaintances out of concentration camps, is that right? A.One. Q.Did you also have an opportunity in later years, let us say 19... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,760,850 | 1,761,350 |
prisoners themselves lost any respect for the lives of others? A.That is extremely difficult to answer. I know two very different reactions which we often discussed. One is that such a person comes out and says from now on I shall never hurt a fly. Now I know what horrible things a human being is capable of. I know how... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,761,300 | 1,761,800 |
experience began in 1933. My reliable reports began in 1933. Q.And do you believe that this condition of the guards was supported from above? A.Yes, I do. They wont up to the Commandant office, and went up to Himmler and Hitler, too, of course. Q.Then for a man who was against this system in the concentration camps, di... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,761,750 | 1,762,250 |
conflicting situation. These are only children of six or seven, and the child is told at school it is his duty to report his parents if they don't think as they should. QNow that system; was it or was it not well known throughout Germany that those things were done and the children were so instructed? ATo my knowledge,... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,762,200 | 1,762,700 |
would not that arouse considerable general interest among the population, among their friends, even among their enemies who disagreed with them; would it not arouse some general interest as to where those people were put and where they were kept? ANo, that was not the case. It was generally said if you investigate this... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,762,650 | 1,763,150 |
to the number of Jews, who were German citizens, who were confined in concentration camps prior to September 1, 1939? AI assume that the number of Jews before the outbreak of war, German citizens before the outbreak of war, was not especially large; I assume that it was ten thousand or twenty thousand at the most. QAnd... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,763,100 | 1,763,600 |
terms about something which had already happened to cover himself. Not what Himmler did was praiseworthy but only the reason which he used. QI think you should speak a little, slower, witness, Witness, yesterday you said that you had repeatedly to bring your knowledge about what happened during the Nazi regime to the a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,763,550 | 1,764,050 |
the independence of every man, where I had to rely on the man's taking up his duties independently. I gave Sievers his assignment and left him a completely fre hand as to how he carried it out. Otherwise we could not work at all: but, of course, I claim the responsibility since I gave the man his assignment: since I ex... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,764,000 | 1,764,500 |
No. 36, I beg your pardon, No. 35, on affidavit of Professor Dr. Von Lutterotti. The next document is Sievers No. 23 on pages 58 and 59, as Sievers Exhibit No. 36, the statement of Dr. Weingartner. The next document is Sievers No. 24, on pages 60 and 61, document book I, Exhibit No. 37. The next document is Sievers No.... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,764,450 | 1,764,950 |
Oslo University, Professor Broegger of Oslo, and the case of the Norwegian students is mentioned here whom Sivers saved from the concentration camp. The case of the atomic physicist Niels Bohr is also mentioned, and I should like to point out briefly a passage to be found on page 3, page 5 of the English translation in... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,764,900 | 1,765,400 |
the inmates in the concentration camp of Dachau and this affidavit testifies to that affidavit. I point out also this affidavit's corroboration of Sievers' membership in the resistance movement. She can testify to this of her own knowledge because Sievers repeatedly spoke with her about all these matters. The next docu... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,765,350 | 1,765,850 |
as it has been recently delivered. THE PRESIDENT:The Secretary General will see that the Karl Brandt Document Book 3 is furnished to the Tribunal. I should like it noted down that the Secretary General's Office should see that Karl Brandt's Document Book 3 is seasonably delivered to the Tribunal. Counsel may proceed. D... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,765,800 | 1,766,300 |
was kept in the cellar of the Prinz Albrecht Gestapo prison in Berlin, in a dark small cell. At the end of August 1936 I was released, with the help of one of my husband's friends. In view of these occurrences I went to England for one year, in November of 1936, to visit relatives. After my return to Germany I lived in... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,766,250 | 1,766,750 |
previously. The old work reports that I saw when I worked in the files had not mentioned in them of any work by Rose on typhus. QWhat then did Professor Rose' department work on. AThat can readily be seen from the annual reports of the Robert Koch Institute, which contained a summary of all the work in progress, even w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,766,700 | 1,767,200 |
a few of his assistants, infected themselves, and the infection took in a few cases. Also a few of the assistants intentionally infected themselves with malaria. Moreover, all matters that had to do with malaria, all persons in his department who had to do with malaria fell ill with malaria at one time or another in th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,767,150 | 1,767,650 |
Experimental Series No. VIII. 8 March 1944. On Professor Rose's subject the Copenhagen vaccine (produced from mice livers) was tested for its protective qualities on human beings." What do you have to say about that? A.As I have already said, Professor Rose sent all the samples of vaccine that he had brought back or ha... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,767,600 | 1,768,100 |
have just put to you, but which you had not previously seen, refers to 1944 and I ask you what you, on the basis of your own knowledge of the year 1943, can say about this entry, and the words that interest me are: "On Professor Rose's suggestion such and such a series of experiments?". A.I cannot imagine what is going... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,768,050 | 1,768,550 |
annoyed by red tape and even when he was talking to the President, he did not restrain himself. Q.How did you know that; were you present at such events? A.Yes, Professor Rose only went very infrequently to Dr. Gildemeister and if possible settled everything by phone. When he made these phone calls, he did not want me ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,768,500 | 1,769,000 |
fact that they had received Protective vaccines. QThe Prosecution assets further and has submitted documents to the effect that Professor Gildemeister took part in the typhus experiments in concentration camps and that Professor Rose took part in the planning and carrying out of these experiments; do you have anything ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,768,950 | 1,769,450 |
Rose never inquired further regarding these filed documents and while I was working there no further documents arrived about this matter. Q.And you were employed by him until the end of December 1943? A.Yes. Q.I continue now with my examination. Do you know anything about human being experiments with typhus? A.No. Q.Do... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,769,400 | 1,769,900 |
Colleague", and now he used the address "Mr. President" and confined himself to the absolute minimum. Also his mode of expression became very circumspect and he avoided making any remark of a drastic nature to Professor Gildemeister, which previously he had often done in conversation. Q.In your last answer you said tha... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,769,850 | 1,770,350 |
to remain in Berlin and I did not want to work with Professor Gildemeister. Q.Now, witness, another matter; did Professor Rose or one of his collaborators work on yellow fever? A.No, as long, as I had anything to do with the department there was no work on yellow fever, Yellow fever vaccine was produced in the Robert K... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,770,300 | 1,770,800 |
waste his valuable material for his useless attempts. I was struck at this time by the attitude on Dr. Rose's part, since the delivery and sending of such material was always taken care of in routine fashion by the assistants It was sent to hospitals and such places and was usually called to Dr. Rose's attention afterw... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,770,750 | 1,771,250 |
notice in the Zeitung that Professor Rose was a co-defendant and your name was mentioned as that of his counsel. Then, on my own initiative, I wrote to you and placed myself at your disposal as a witness. I did so because, as Professor Rose's former private secretary, I felt I know so much about him and his work that I... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,771,200 | 1,771,700 |
you to handle said material? A.I believe so, yes. Q.Even top secret material? A.Yes. Q.Well now you have stated, that Rose's work did not deal with the field of typhus research, is that right? A.Yes. Q.You have further stated that the greater part of the work in the tropical disease department of which Rose was the Chi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,771,650 | 1,772,150 |
Schilling came to the Robert Koch Institute in l94l and secured those eggs for the malaria strain from one of the laboratory assistants, is that right? A.Yes, Miss Von Falkenhayn. Q.Did he over come back in 1942? A.I don't know. I can only remember having soon Professor Schilling once in my life. Q.Did you see any corr... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,772,100 | 1,772,600 |
connection. Q.Well now you stated that Rose brought back or later received some samples of this vaccine from Copenhagen, and that he transferred those samples to the same people to whom he sent a report, namely, the Behring Worke, the Robert Koch Institute, care of Gildemeister, and to Goheimrat Otto, is that what you ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,772,550 | 1,773,050 |
Professor Rose never had them first in his hands nor did he send them off. He didn't send them to Ding or Mrugowsky, that I know. They went to the three places that I mentioned before. There was such a small amount no more could have been sent. Q.Did Professor Rose indicate what happened at the Military Medical confere... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,773,000 | 1,773,500 |
Conti and then from the memoranda I could subsequently deduce that he had been to Buchenwald. Q.Well, had he ever had any conferences with Conti prior to the trip to Buchenwald? He must have if he had determined that he wanted to see Conti regarding the Buchenwald situation. A.Of that I know nothing. Q.Don't know anyth... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,773,450 | 1,773,950 |
study infectious diseases outside of Europe personally. I first went to Antwerp where I gained the diploma in tropical medicine. Then for five months I was in London with the Bureau of Scientific Research. From there I went to Brazil and worked with the Rockefeller Institute for the first part of my stay there at Rio d... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,773,900 | 1,774,400 |
camp of Hoersching and to head it. I was in charge of this hospital, until I was released in July, 1945. I was in charge of this hospital under the supervision of the American physicians. QSince when did you know Professor Rose? AI knew Professor Rose since I saw him at the International Tropic Conference at Amsterdam ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,774,350 | 1,774,850 |
what happened after Ding's lecture? A.After Dr. Ding's lecture there followed a discussion. The discussion was opened by Professor Rose. He, at first, referred briefly to the material substance of the lecture which he, by and large, recognized. He emphasized, however, that this was a question of experiments on human be... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,774,800 | 1,775,300 |
people would resist any such procedure. Considering the situation in Germany at that time, this alone would have sufficed to get him into a rather awkward position, that is, if any official steps had been taken against him in this matter. QWhy didn't you yourself adopt any attitude in this matter? AI was only a guest a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,775,250 | 1,775,750 |
friends of mine that I could not understand that in the least -- that I could not understand why Professor Rose was indicted-- for he is the only person who in my experience, had courage, at a time when Himmlor reigned, to appear in public in the manner I described, QDid you hear about other experiments on human beings... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,775,700 | 1,776,200 |
as they are generally known in literature. His lecture brought nothing new of general importance. It was merely a summary of the current state of research, which was also the case during my lecture. Both lectures were only designed for general orientation for the purposes of those people who only knew a little about ye... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,776,150 | 1,776,650 |
is based on the giving of a living weakened yellow fever virus to a person, attenuated virus. This attenuation can be attained in many different ways. For that reason a number of different vaccines are in use in different countries. From my knowledge I am best acquainted with the method which was developed with the Roc... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,776,600 | 1,777,100 |
Page 109 in the same Document Book which is before you; you will find the numbers in the right-hand corner. There you will find the Document of the Prosecution N0-304. which is Prosecution Exhibit 315. It is a letter by Professor Haagen to the Inspector of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe in Berlin, and it bears th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,777,050 | 1,777,550 |
protested against the experiments on human beings, which were reported during that meeting. It was he who spoke in the same sense as we, the German scientifical field, who were present during that meeting, and he therefore maintained the good, old tradition of the German medical profession. QThank you, Professor, I hav... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,777,500 | 1,778,000 |
procedure was applied. QThe prosecution asserts that inmates were injected with yellow fever in a concentration camp; according to our material however we were only concerned, with protective vaccinations, using the Peltier method. Would an artificial infection of human beings after such a protective vaccination have b... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,777,950 | 1,778,450 |
harmlessness. The Prosecution interprets that in such a manner that there must therefore have been a danger to health when carrying out these vaccinations, but according to the answer which you just gave, one can conclude that this word "harmlessness" contained in the letter of the Behring Works is to be synonymous for... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,778,400 | 1,778,900 |
of the Medical Service. The letter is very brief-perhaps you could glance through it briefly, professor. Can you, is an expert, see in this letter anything indicating whether or not Haagen in this yellow fever vaccine production carried out any experiments on human beings, or what can you deduce from the letter? A.Ther... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,778,850 | 1,779,350 |
which either Haagen himself or some other persons carried out with this TAB Chol, vaccine. The letter is three pages long. I shall not ask you to read the whole letter now and I shall spare the Tribunal the nuisance of reading it, but I shall cite a few sentences that are pertinent in the first third of the first page.... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,779,300 | 1,779,800 |
in research, is that not so? A.Yes. Q.Consequently, you are in a position to express an opinion regarding the permissibility of experiments on human beings, and at any rate you must have formed some picture of that in connection with this trial? A.I do not consider myself a first rate expert in this field because that ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,779,750 | 1,780,250 |
in order to benefit that patient himself. Was that concept included in your question? DR. SERVATIUS:No, I believe we do not have to go into that question. Q.Witness, I ask you not to deliver a lecture on the subject. Perhaps later you will have an opportunity to go into it at greater length but not please answer the qu... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,780,200 | 1,780,700 |
at such time all evidence of this nature will be at one time offered and then the Tribunal, at that time, will rule on its admissibility. Hence, consistent with the ruling of the Tribunal, I object to Dr. Servatius at this time offering any evidence of this nature or discussing it in as much as the Tribunal has saw fit... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,780,650 | 1,781,150 |
also the consent of the person in question. QWould you consider it permissible if experiments on certain seriously ill persons or epileptics whose refusal to consent is to be considered, that experiments be carried out on them? ANo. QDo you think that experiments should be carried out on moribund children, for instance... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,781,100 | 1,781,600 |
always prefer to forego scientific progress rather than take such a responsibility upon myself. QThen you consider such experiments not permissible even when the State orders them? AFrom the point of view of medical ethics - yes. QThen, Professor, you agree with the Prosecution that such experiments are a crime? AAgain... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,781,550 | 1,782,050 |
is to be informed at once by telephone, Wuppertal No. 36665. signed: Signature for Deputy Regional Commissioner North Rhine Region (Lt. Col. E.J.G. Wallace, RAMC). "To the President of the Governmental District N G Ned 5OO B 907/46 "Cologne, July 9, 1946. "To the Health Office at ............ "? send the copy with the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,782,000 | 1,782,500 |
you say, for the benefit of the Tribunal, where, and how, and under what circumstances the text matter of this paper, a copy of which you have exhibited to the Tribunal, was obtained? DR. SERVATIUS:During my information trip to Cologne, which is my native town, I was told that this directive had been issued, and it was... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,782,450 | 1,782,950 |
then, what is your purpose in directing its context to this witness? DR. SERVATIUS:I want to show this to the witness to hear from him, as a representative doctor of present day Germany, how such experiments are evaluated today. It is my point of view that experiments as are here ordered are permissible, and I have asc... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,782,900 | 1,783,400 |
to me that that could be done without any reference whatever to this document and that it would be a proper source of inquiry. DR. SERVATIUS:The hypothetical questions I have already put to the witness--whether he considers experiments permissible if they are painless, whether they should be carried out on children wit... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,783,350 | 1,783,850 |
an inimical witness and that I could put everything to him necessary to refute his point of view. Do I understand from the President that I should put no further questions to the witness? THE PRESIDENT:No, it was not that. The witness was called by another defendant. You are now trying to cross-examine the witness as t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,783,800 | 1,784,300 |
answering my questions briefly so that we may finish this afternoon. First of all, I want to discuss with you the events which took place at the meeting of the consulting physicians at the Military Medical academy in May 1943, more specifically the lecture given by Dr. Ding. Now was it possible for a listener, such as ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,784,250 | 1,784,750 |
murder? A.I don't quite understand your question. Q.Well, did Rose consider this just plain murder, these experiments at Buchenwald? A.He didn't use that expression. Q.Well, did you understand Rose to mean that? A.That was to be concluded from his answer indirectly. Q.Well, now were you aware of the fact that Professor... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,784,700 | 1,785,200 |
human being to be examined, and then again injected into other mice. Q.Well, now, doctor, if we were going to have experiments on human beings here in Nurnberg, we would have to first artificially infect the human beings with the yellow fever virus in order to test the efficacy of the vaccine, and bear in mind now, Doc... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,785,150 | 1,785,650 |
be considered a serious disease? A.I know that in the Balkans hepatitis is spread among the population and mostly is considered as a harmless child diseases Q.What I am getting at, Doctor, would you consider hepatitis to be in the same category as a bad cold, a little more serious than that, isn't it? A.It takes longer... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,785,600 | 1,786,100 |
all present in court. THE MARSHAL:May it please your Honor, all defendants are present in the court. THE PRESIDENT:The Secretary-General will note for the record the presence of all the defendants in court. MR. HARDY:May it please your Honor, the Defendant Rose to this date is charged by the prosecution on Count No. 1 ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,786,050 | 1,786,550 |
service at the Second Guard Regiment with the Infantry, and I went through the war with that regiment from 1914 until 1918. My medical State examination I passed at the University of Breslau on the 15th of November 1921. My medical approbation I received on the 16th of May 1922 by the Reich Ministry of the Interior at ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,786,500 | 1,787,000 |
Section of the Far Eastern Association for Tropical Medicine. Although the Commissioner for Civil Affairs had changed five times during that period, I stayed in that position for a period of 7 years until I myself asked to resign in order to accept an offer which was made to me by the Robert Koch Institute of Berlin as... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,786,950 | 1,787,450 |
immediately took a vacation in order to take a trip to Africa for purposes of study. I wanted to find out what the tropical medical special problems were as they prevailed in Central Africa. With the agreement of the Colonial Office in London, and the Colonial Ministries in Paris and Brussels, I traveled through africa... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,787,400 | 1,787,900 |
year 1939. In addition, I was the official delegate for Germany at the International Congress for Tropical Medicine and the Third International Malaria Congress in the year 1938 at Amsterdam. Q.Mr. President, in order to prove the Fellowship of Professor Rose at the Royal Society, I offer as Rose Document No. 2,which w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,787,850 | 1,788,350 |
germans. This was done by reason of the German-Soviet Pact. I was to head this Public Health Service outside the Reich Borders and that by collaboration with the Soviet, Romania, Yugoslav and Hungarian authorities. After the conclusion of this work I remained the hygienic consultant to the Chief of this public health s... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,788,300 | 1,788,800 |
this, he was assigned in May 1942 by the Reich health Leader as a member to the Working Committee on De-verminization and epidemic control, including the supply of equipment, manpower and General enlightenment. Professor Rose here gave valuable and energetic assistance, I came to know him personally during this work an... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,788,750 | 1,789,250 |
further said the SS did not think of submitting to the decision of that committee regarding the distribution of quotes to the various parties. At that time I rejected any independent position of the SS, including the Reichs Fuehrer, because at that time the president hesitated in voicing his opinion, although it was hi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,789,200 | 1,789,700 |
DR. FRITZ:In order to substantiate the proposal to assign Professor Rose to the University of Basle, I offer a document which was sent to me by tho faculty of Basle, which can be found on page 11, up to page 14, of my document book. This is Rose Document 5, and Rose Exhibit No. 5 This is a certified excerpt of the opin... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,789,650 | 1,790,150 |
of the lUftwaffe. I remained in this position until the end of the war, only formally a fee changes took place during the war at a time which I no longer recall. The name " consulting hygienist" was changed and made " consulting hygienist and tropical hygienist." When the pc sition of the medical inspector was changed ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,790,100 | 1,790,600 |
laboratories for the Luftwaffe set up - the so-called motor field laboratories. Also, measures against lice in the Luftwaffe were assigned to the Medical Service. Tropical Hygiene which in 1941 had been insignificant suddenly became important. Since the Luftwaffe did not have old regular hygiene offices this whole orga... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,790,550 | 1,791,050 |
internists or consultants for skin and venerial diseases to supplement such points in them which referred to hygiene. In addition I was also sent important reports for my attention even if no opinion was required from mo so that I would be informed about the matters discussed in them. QWhat questions wore worked on by ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,791,000 | 1,791,500 |
I myself said that in certain fields I had no practical experience and that some one else would be better. In the third place, that happened if the Inspectorate did not agree with my opinion but did not want to act on its own initiative against my advice but wanted a second opinion. Q.Can you cite any examples for that... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,791,450 | 1,791,950 |
useful, in spite of isolated cases of differences of opinion, I would hardly have remained in the same position during the whole war. Q.Well then, how were the drafts of your suggestions worked on after you submitted them? A.After the commanding officer of the Group Science and Research had taken notice of them and sig... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,791,900 | 1,792,400 |
means decisive but it merely represented an export opinion before the Medical inspectorate. "My experience-reports and special reports for the Medical Inspector to which had to be presented at fixed periods, had to be routed via the wing physician and were passed on to the Chief of the Medical Service, and not to the c... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,792,350 | 1,792,850 |
7 which will become Rose Exhibit No.7. This is an affidavit of Dr. Ferdinand Muhlert who was repeatedly mentioned in the affidavit which I have just read. This affidavit bears the date of February, 1947. You can find it on pages 20 to 23 of my document book 1. The date is the 25th of February , 1947. Considering the im... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,792,800 | 1,793,300 |
understand that, Counsel. That is the reason for the overruling of the objection made by Prosecution. Counsel may proceed and read such portions of this affidavit as he deems important to his defense. BY DR. FRITZ: I shall at first quote from Page 1 of that document, reading the eighth sentence of Paragraph 2: "From th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,793,250 | 1,793,750 |
- in addition to Professor Rose - with the Chief of the Luftwaffe Medical Services, I also received reports from consulting physicians and other medical offices sent by the office of the Chief of the Luftwaffe Medical Services, with a request to express my opinion, to make suggestions, or to compile the experiences fro... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,793,700 | 1,794,200 |
my specialized field were discussed there. At the 4th meeting of consulting physicians in 1944 in Hohenlychen I was the chairman of the action for hygiene and tropical hygiene. QDid you have to make any official trips? AYes, I was ordered to make official trips by the Inspectorate, and I would do them on my own initiat... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,794,150 | 1,794,650 |
duty that he would have to be continually informed about experiments in this field, isn't that right?" and Professor Schroeder's answer read, "Rose, according to the directives, which his Chief Hippko gave him probably concerned himself with these research assignments," and then the end of Schroeder's answer reads, and... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,794,600 | 1,795,100 |
than I did. I began as Oberarzt d. Reserve, which is equivalent to a First Lieutenant. The others were all Stabsaerzte, and Oborstabsarzte, or captains and majors. During the war this was changed insofar with the increase of a number of hygienists younger colleagues were appointed to such positions. That changed nothin... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,795,050 | 1,795,550 |
in the later years of the war, from 1941 on. There were very few hygenic assignments in the Luftwaffe and the execution of the assignments was in the hands of the research workers given such assignments. I am not aware that any kind of supervision was carried out over the execution. Q.If any such assignments were given... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,795,500 | 1,796,000 |
way become subordinate and that the person giving me the money acquired no other rights than that of regular accounting about the use of the money with a report, and that he assumed no other duties toward me than to supply the money furnished at the time promised. I have considered myself responsible for what I did. Q.... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,795,950 | 1,796,450 |
subsidy for such research for work on a mobile drinking water apparatus, he applied for and received this assignment because for twenty years he had worked very specifically with drinking water questions, water filters, and water disinfection. He was the expert on this question and my opinion was of secondary value. If... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,796,400 | 1,796,900 |
are Rudolf Brandt, Poppendick, Sievers, Romberg, Brack, Hoven, Beiglboeck, Porkorny, Oberhauser, and Fischer, By name and sight I know three of them, Gonsken, Gebhardt and Ruff. I had nothing to do with them either officially or otherwise and I did not talk to them or have any correspondence with them. That leaves eigh... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,796,850 | 1,797,350 |
he had to remind me that I had seen him before. Professor Mrugowsky I knew as a lecturer for hygiene from the Berlin Medical Faculty. Then I met him at large Hygiene Conferences. I was at his institute once when a delousing apparatus was to be demonstrated which he had had developed. Professor Mrugowsky is the only one... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,797,300 | 1,797,800 |
number of international meetings and Congresses. In the Far East I was even Chairman at one of them, since the work of the American Health Administration in Manilla was for all of us of the greatest importance scientifically. It was, of course, discussed in detail in circles of specialists, and of course the question o... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,797,750 | 1,798,250 |
be found on pages 53 to 77 of the Document Book Rose No. III. This document will receive Rose Exhibit No.11. MR. HARDY:May I inquire as to whether or not these four exhibits, 8-9-10-11, are from the report introduced by the Prosecution? DR. FRITZ:Mr. President, the German Document Book III has not yet been mimeographed... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,798,200 | 1,798,700 |
course of treatment. Then I spoke of the significance of malaria in blood conserves and a self experiment is referred to which one of my assistants carried out which has a certain significance in literature. And, then I deal with mosquito control. Mr. second lecture is this meeting dealing with the combating of anophel... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,798,650 | 1,799,150 |
comes another speaker who says "Rose is right." Then comes my remark on Ding's typhus report. This printed report of the meeting contains only what I said about the scientific significance of Mr. Ding's experiments. Since I intend to Discuss Ding's experiments in another connection I should like to go back to this at t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,799,100 | 1,799,600 |
of the document book in tin English as well as in the German, the discussion of tne professional groups of hygiene and tropical hygiene are starting in which I, at that time, was chairman. At first, there are my introductory remarks regarding Gesarel and Gix. These were the two most important DDT preparations which wer... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 1,799,550 | 1,800,050 |
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