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of the necessary animals. however, it has been possible to bring about changes in some of the eggs with eye and mouth secretions of nephritis patients, which arouses the suspicion that a cultivatable virus is involved, but the question as to whether this is the nephritis virus remains open. Controlled experiments with ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 225,000 | 225,500 |
the necessary steps to obtain the required experimental subjects? I don't know what wort of subjects Gutzei has at his disposal, whether they are soldiers or other people. "I shall appreciate a prompt reply. With cordial greetings Heil Hitler!Yours Oberstabarzt Professcr Dr. E. Haagen. Consulting Hygienist with Luftfle... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 225,450 | 225,950 |
extermination; a term somewhat similar to the expression used in America, "taking a man for a ride". "--of about 100.000 Jews in the territory of my district (Gau), approved by you agreement with the Chief of the Reich-Main-Security Office, SS Obergruppenfuehrer Heydrich, can be completed within the next 2-3 months. I ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 225,900 | 226,400 |
Reich Governor in Posen, dated 3 May 1942, to the Reichsfuehrer SS, Personal Staff, attention of SS-obersturmbannfuehrer Brandt. "Subject: Poles afflicted with TB. "Dear Comrade Brandt: "May I ask that you submit the following matter to the Reichsfuehrer SS: "The Gauleiter will shortly ask the Reichsfuehrer SS for perm... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 226,350 | 226,850 |
of the Reichsgau Wartheland, and who are afflicted with open tuberculosis, submitted to the special treatment in the sense of the proposal of Gau-Leader Greiser, insofar as their disease is incurable, according to the diagnosis of an official physician. "The individual measures, though, will first have to be discussed ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 226,800 | 227,300 |
of the task in an inconspicuous manner" We now turn to Document NumberNO-249, which is offered as Prosecution Exhibit 202. This is dated 21 November 1942, a letter from Greiser to Himmler, which reads as follows: "Reichsfuehrer: In your letter of 27 June 1942, Journal Number 1247/42 Top Secret, you gave me permission t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 227,250 | 227,750 |
on the 9th of this month in Munich, a detailed picture of the situation as it appears to me: "Conditions for quickly getting hold of all consumptives in your Gau exist. The total population of your Gau amounts to about four to five million people, of which about 835,000 are Germans. According to previous observations, ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 227,700 | 228,200 |
an appropriate cure in order to save them for work and to avoid their causing contagion. "According to your request I made arrangements with the offices in question in order to start and carry out this radical procedure within half a year. You told me that tho competent office agreed with you as to this special treatme... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 228,150 | 228,650 |
the seriously sick, instead all the more to the healing of the less sick. And there are more than enough people who listen to illegal broadcasts. "Furthermore, it is to be taken into consideration that the planned proceeding will provide excellent propaganda material for our enemies, not only as regards the Italian phy... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 228,600 | 229,100 |
"Should the radical solution, for example, proposal No.1, be out of question the necessary conditions for proposals No.2 or 3 must be created. "We must keep in mind that the conditions of the war deprive us of the possibility of arranging for a fairly adequate treatment of the curable consumptives. To do so would requi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 229,050 | 229,550 |
thoroughly thought over whether the original idea could not in some way be carried out. However, I am convinced now that it is better to proceed the other way. Heil Hitler? Yours, H.Himmler." Copies were sent to SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Koppe? Posen? the Reich Main Security Office? Berlin. "copy with request for reference... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 229,500 | 230,000 |
Blome and Greiser numerous Poles were exterminated. Many thousands of tuberculous Poles were taken to isolation camps where they had to take care of themselves." Now here we have an affidavit which indicates, as a result, numerous Poles were exterminated and many thousands were placed in isolation camps and given absol... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 229,950 | 230,450 |
"numerous Poles". I assume that counsel for the prosecution will see that the German document books are corrected to conform. HR. HARDY:I will sir. MR. SAUTER:We have only the German document book, of course, and we cannot ascertain what the English document book says. THE PRESIDENT:We understand, counsel, perfectly. D... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 230,400 | 230,900 |
books of Sulfanilamide experiments. This book includes the documents which will be presented on the Sulfanilamide and bone experiments at Ravensbrueck. These document books were delivered to the office of the Secretary General this morning, I am advised. The defense counsel have just received copies of the German docum... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 230,850 | 231,350 |
document book you will not be able to deviate from your basic rule of procedure without endangering the interests of the defense, and I therefore ask you perhaps by the examination of witnesses which the prosecution wishes to bring to bridge the period of time until tomorrow morning until we have had an opportunity to ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 231,300 | 231,800 |
charged with special responsibility for and participation in the sulfanilamide With respect to the so-called bone, muscle and nerve regeneration and bone transplantation experiments, the Defendants Karl Brandt, Handloser, Rostock, Gebhardt, Rudolf Brandt, Oberhouser and Fischer are charged with special responsibility f... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 231,750 | 232,250 |
for use in the experiments were obtained from the Hygienisches Institute for Waffen SS. The procedure followed in the operations was as follows: the subject received the conventional anaesthetic of morphine-atropine, then evipan other. An incission was made five to eight centimeters in length and one to one and a half ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 232,200 | 232,700 |
"Accordingly, five women had been prepared for the operation, but I did not operate on them. I reported the change of situation to Professor Gebhardt and suggested that in view of these circumstances, it would be desirable to stop the experimental operations. He did not adopt this suggestion, however, and pointed out t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 232,650 | 233,150 |
be undertaken should be in accordance with these directions. That same evening, I discussed those orders of Dr. Grawitz with Professor Gebhardt and we both agreed that it was impossible to carry them out; but that a procedure would be adopted which would more nearly simulate battlefield conditions without actually shoo... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 233,100 | 233,600 |
in the series the inflammation was so rapid there was no remedy and no amputations were made. "Since after the tying up of the circulation of the muscles, a very severe course of infection was to be expected, five grams of sulfanilamide were given intravenously in the amount of one gram each, beginning one hour after t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 233,550 | 234,050 |
were used as an anesthetic, and a five centimeter longitudinal incision was made at the outer side of the upper leg. Subsequent to the cutting through the fascian, a piece of the muscle was removed which was the size of the cup of the little finger. The fascian and skin were enclosed in accordance with the normal techn... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 234,000 | 234,500 |
did not carry out another order for Doctor Stumpfegger, who was absent at that time, to continue his work. "My behavior towards all patients was very considerate, and I was very careful in the operations to follow standard professional procedure. "In May 1943 at the occasion of the fourth conference of the consulting p... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 234,450 | 234,950 |
this affidavit, these experiments began in the latter part of 1942, and insofar as the Defendant Fischer is concerned, were concluded in May 1943. The Tribunal will recall that Fischer made a very frank and open statement to the affect that a full report was given on these Ravensbruck experiments before that august bod... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 234,900 | 235,400 |
of her vacation. Dr. Oberhauser was in charge of the post-operation care for the patients and she regularly reported to me how the patients were getting on and hot the experiments developed. As a matter of course she know that one of the series of patients were operated on and infected out not treated with sulfanilamid... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 235,350 | 235,850 |
the sulfanilamide experiments and with my task in the Ravensbruck concentration camp, and as stated befare, selected victims for these experiments." Signed 1 November 1946, Fritz Ernst Albert Fischer. This affidavit then rives us some idea of the part played by the Defendant Oberhauser in these experimental operations ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 235,800 | 236,300 |
of 10 centimetres was usually made. I don't recall either, which muscle was used for the purpose of the experiment. "5. I cannot say, how many persons, on whom experiments were conducted, suffered permanent injuries. But I know that three died as victims of these experiments. I found that their heart failed. But since ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 236,250 | 236,750 |
of course, will be proved in a few moments. We would like now to call the first of a series of four witnesses. THE PRESIDENT:Before the witness is called the Tribunal will take a fifteen minute recess. (A recess was taken) THE MARSHAL:The Tribunal is again in session. MR. McHANEY:May it please the Tribunal, the prosecu... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 236,700 | 237,200 |
the witness, Interpreter. THE INTERPRETER:Yes, in Polish. BY THE PRESIDENT: Q.Do you swear that the evidence you shall give shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? A.I swear. (The witness repeated the oath.) THE PRESIDENT:Has the Interpreter been sworn, Mr. Prosecutor? MR. McHAN... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 237,150 | 237,650 |
the Polish underground? A.Yes. Q.What work did you do in the underground? A.I was the chief of messengers. Q.And what happened as a result of your working in the underground? Were you ultimately arrested? A.I was arrested by Germans on 12 June 1941. Q.Did you undergo any trial? A.Yes. Q.By what sort of court were you t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 237,600 | 238,100 |
came and brought a list with names of prisoners, and my name was on this list. We all asked where we were going, but we got no answer. We were brought to the hospital, so-called Revier. There we waited about one hour in the corridor. Then we were taken to Dr. Oberhauser, who told us to disrobe, who examined us and then... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 238,050 | 238,550 |
toes up to the hip. In the neighborhood of the ankle my leg was quite dark and very swollen. In the evening Oberhauser came with some other doctor, I did not knew this doctor, and I don't remember his face. He examined my leg and said, in German, "fertig", that is all. I was then taken to the operating room for the sec... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 238,500 | 239,000 |
From which end is she coming seven? THE INTERPRETER:From the right. The witness says that she was mistaken. The ninth man sitting in the first ring. It is very difficult for the witness to recognize him because he is clanged and she is not quite sure. MR. MC HANEY:Witness, just take your time and tell which of the men ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 238,950 | 239,450 |
in the block? A.I lay in bod because I could not walk. In spite of that I had to be on the roll call place each day. At the end of May Oberhauser told all operated girls to come to the hospital. She looked at our feet and told us that we were fit for going to work. Blood flowed from my leg and it was very difficult for... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 239,400 | 239,900 |
were weaker and could not escape had to be operated on again. For several months there were no operations At that time, Langefeldt was dismissed and Bienz took her place. On the 15th of August 1943, some girls were summoned to the hospital. They didn't want to go. They knew that they were going to be operated on. Bienz... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 239,850 | 240,350 |
these ten Polish girls in this bunker? A.Five of them were operated on in the bunker. Q.When did this happen? A.On the 15th of August 1942. They told us they did not get food for throe days as a punishment that women from this block did not betray their comrades. The shutters were closed and we had to stay in the block... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 240,300 | 240,800 |
We can very easily make photostatic copies but they really do not show up very well. I have got one set here which I would like to pass up to the Tribunal now. BY MR. MCHANEY: Q.Witness, will you look at these photographs and toll the tribunal if they are pictures made of you here in Nurnberg? AYes. Q.Are all three of ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 240,750 | 241,250 |
JUDGE SEBRING:There will be questions propounded then, I understand? DR. SEIDI:Yes, Sir. JUDGE SEBRING:Mr. McHaney, the witness will be produced here in the morning, then, for cross-examination. MR. MCHANEY:Yes indeed, Your Honor. THE PRESIDENT:The Tribunal will be recessed until 9:30 tomorrow morning. (The Tribunal ad... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 241,200 | 241,700 |
exactly remember that date? A.The operations started to be performed in tho concentration camp Ravenstruck on 1st august 1042 because I was arrested in 1941. Q.That is not in 1941 but in 1942. A.Yes. Q.You have testified yesterday that several experimental subjects were operated on on several occasions. As a result of ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 241,650 | 242,150 |
your injuries to your leg had occurred for reasons other than the operation, which you have described to this Tribunal? A.I did not sign such a paper, but I was warned and told by Commander Tuchring, who wanted me to sign such a paper. The contents of this paper was as follows: "The undersigned, Marie Breel-Plater, cer... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 242,100 | 242,600 |
from 1929 to 1931 did you intern in neuropsychiatry at the Neuropsychiatric Department of the University Hospital, Frankfurt? A.Yes sir. Q.And from 1931 to 1932 were you a resident in neuropsychiatry, the Neuropsychiatric Department of the University Hospital in Frankfurt? A.Yes sir. Q.Were you a lecturer in psychiatry... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 242,550 | 243,050 |
Association of Psychopathologists, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, Harvey Cushing Society, American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, Now England Psychiatric Association, and a number of others. Q.Thank you. Now, Doctor, what experience ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 243,000 | 243,500 |
may be followed. BY MR. HcHANEY: Q.Now, Doctor, I would appreciate it if you would simply proceed to explain to tho Court what you have done in examining this woman and what you have to report on your examination. I would appreciate it if you would do it in non-technical language Insofar as possible and whore technical... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 243,450 | 243,950 |
the upper part of the lower half cf the shaft of the fibula. Q.And what is that irregularity? Did you say it was a thickening of the bone? A.Thickening, irregularity with thickening which could be - THE PRESIDENT:Would you talk a little nearer the microphone? A.Yes. Which is due to trauma without complete fracture. JUD... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 243,900 | 244,400 |
examination? No examination? When the witness may step down. MR. HcHANEY:The Prosecution would like at this time to have the witness Karolewska called to the stand. THE PRESIDENT:Did I understand you to say that the witness Kladislawa Karolewska be called? MR. McHANEY:Yes. THE PRESIDENT:Will the Marshal summon the witn... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 244,350 | 244,850 |
two weeks in the prison in Lublin and then I was taken again to the Gestapo. There I was interrogated and they wanted to force me to confess what kind of work I used to do in the Resistance movement. The Gestapo wanted me to give them the names of persons with whom I worked. I did not want to tell them the names and th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 244,800 | 245,300 |
move our lips, because then we were supposed to pray and we were not allowed to pray. Q.Now, Witness, were you operated on while you were in the Ravensbruck concentration camp? A.Yes, I was. Q.When did that happen? A.On the 22nd July 1942, 73 prisoners from our transport that came from Lublin were called, summoned to t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 245,250 | 245,750 |
get in touch with them to hear from them why they were put in the hospital. A few days later, one of my comrades succeeded to get close to the hospital and Teamed from one of the prisoners that all were in bod and that their legs were in casts. On the 14th of August, the same year, I was called to the hospital and my n... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 245,700 | 246,200 |
the dressing room and the dressing was changed by Doctor Fischer with the assistance of the same doctors, and I was blindfelded, too. I was then sent back to the regular hospital room. The next dressings were made by the camp doctors. Two weeks later we were all taken again to the operating room and put in the operatin... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 246,150 | 246,650 |
back to our rooms. After this operation I felt still "worse; and I could not move. While I was in the hospital, cruelty from Dr. Oberhauser was performed on me. When I was in my roam I made the remark to fellow prisoners that we were operated on in very bad conditions and left here in this room and that we were not giv... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 246,600 | 247,100 |
1943? Q.All right. A.At the end of February 1943, Dr. Oberhauser called us and said, "Those girls are new guinea-pigs"; and we were very well known under this name in the camp. Then mu understood that we were persons intended for experiments and. we decided to protest against the performance of those operations on heal... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 247,050 | 247,550 |
again. Binz told us that she might give us work, there was no question of our being operated on but we were going to be sent for work outside the Camp. We told her that we must know that prisoners belonging to our group are not allowed to leave the camp and go outside the camp. Then she told us to follow her into her o... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 247,500 | 248,000 |
small operation. I told him that I did not agree to it because I had undergone already two operations. He told me that this was going to be a very small operation and that it will not harm me. I told him that I was a political prisoner and that the operation cannot be performed on political prisoners without their cons... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 247,950 | 248,450 |
were removed from the bunker after this operation? A.Ten days after the operation performed in the bunker I was taken --in the night-time-- to the hospital. Q.Well, that must have been around the latter part of August, is that right; August 1943? A.Yes it was. Q.Now, was another operation performed on you in September ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 248,400 | 248,900 |
were you removed from the hospital? A.At the end of February, 1944. Q.Were you able to walk then? A.I tried to walk at that time but could't walk. Q.What sort of work did you do then? A.When I arrived at the block I stayed in bed for a time and then I used to work at knitting stockings. Q.Have you received any treatmen... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 248,850 | 249,350 |
would like to put four additional questions to this witness before calling Dr. Alexander to the stand again, if I may. Let's see. (peruse document) WLADISLAWA KAROLEWSKI (resumed) BY MR. McHANEY: Q.Witness, to sum up: Is it true that you were operated upon six times while at the Concentration Camp Ravensbruck? A.I was ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 249,300 | 249,800 |
state whether or not those are X-Rays made of the legs of the witness Karolewska? A.Yes sir, they are. MR. Mc HANEY:I offer Document No. 1089 as a Prosecution Exhibit 212. And document No. 1090 as Prosecution Exhibit 213. Q. BY MR. McHANEY:Now, Doctor, will you proceed to give the Court, the Tribunal, the result of you... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 249,750 | 250,250 |
are symmetric to each other. Both involve the inner part of the medial line of the tibia; not the anterior; the crest of the tibia, that is, the inner or medial aspect or the tibia, which is involved. Both of those scars involve the medial part, which means the inner part of the tibia. The crest of the tibia is not inv... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 250,200 | 250,700 |
not verbatim, In conclusion, (additional description in German). I repeat this in English--this indicates removal of a bone graft ascertained by the fact that no compact outer zone has been substituted. Instead of that a sclerosis underneath a decalcified outer part has formed. The other X-ray, marked as Document No.NO... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 250,650 | 251,150 |
alleged in some statements I have seen, that tibial grafts were exchanged between the two legs, one must conclude that the experiment was negative because there is no evidence that a graft took. All we see now are the consequences of removal of a graft, and the graft had included the entire compact part of the bone, ot... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 251,100 | 251,600 |
studying Pharmacology at the University, and then when I was studying the second year, the war break out. Q.What did you do after the war broke out. A.In 1939 I was working in a Pharmacy during the holidays. Q.Were you a member of the Resistance Movement? A.In the Autumn of 1944 I entered the Resistance Underground. Q.... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 251,550 | 252,050 |
slaves and that we have only to work. We were not allowed to smile, to cry or to pray. We were not allowed to defend ourselves when we were beaten. There was no hope to -- of going back to my country. Q.Now, Witness, did you say that you were operated on in the Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp on November 22, 1942? A.Ye... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 252,000 | 252,500 |
(Witness points.) Q.And who is that, Witness? A.Dr. Oberhauser. MR. HARDY:May we request that the record so show that the witness has identified the Defendant Oberhauser? THE PRESIDENT:The record will so show. Q.Do you recognize anyone else in that dock, Witness? A.Yes. Q.Point out who else you recognize, Witness? A. (... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 252,450 | 252,950 |
of the line. We were locked in the block, The shutter were closed. We were three days without any food and without any fresh air. We were not given parcels that arrived at that time at the camp. The first day the camp commandant and Binz came and made a speech. The camp commander said that there has never been a revolt... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 252,900 | 253,400 |
the Tribunal for your perusal. BY MR. HARDY: Q.Were these photographs taken of you in Nurnberg in the last day or two, witness? A.Yes. Q.Witness, would you kindly take your stocking and shoe off your right leg, please, and will step out to the side and show the Tribunal the results of the operations at Ravensbrueck? (W... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 253,350 | 253,850 |
leg, including thigh, leg and foot. Will you please stand up, Miss Dzido. (The witness stood). And will you gradually slowly turn around? You can compare here the two legs and you notice the marked atrophy. You see the femur of this bone, of this leg, as compared to tho other. This atrophy is predominantly on the calf ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 253,800 | 254,300 |
the right foot is likewise abolished. (Addressing Kiss Dzido). Will you please try to do this, put the foot inward and outward. There is very little lateral rotation possible. (Addressing Miss Dzino). Would you like to walk first? Would it be desire to have the patient walk? You notice that during the gait the toes of ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 254,250 | 254,750 |
been abolished here, leaving the epicondylus without soft major tendons. This osteo-porosis is the obvious result of that, and marked osteo-porotic prominence with an arrow in this picture. Q.Doctor, this x-ray you are referring to now is No. 1092? A.This is No. 1091. The arrow points to the osteoporotic atrophy of the... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 254,700 | 255,200 |
I assume that they may be of the control group. They have bean injected or implanted with the bacteria culture without the subsequent use of sulfanilaide. From the general appearance, it is suggestive of a Streptococcus in this case. The way it is spread makes it likely, and the fact that the spread is mostly lengthwis... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 255,150 | 255,650 |
open side was not touched. Q.Is it possible that to biceps is lacking because it was used in this transplantation in Warsaw? A.I did not obtain that history. I can ask here through the interpreter. DR. ALEXANDER:Will you please ask the patient these questions: DR. ALEXANDER:Do you feel this tendon here, the big tendon ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 255,600 | 256,100 |
present home address? A.Raciborska Street 1. Q.What education have you received? A.I've finished the secondary school; and I am a student of the University. Q.Have you studied medicine? A.Yes, I am studying medicine. Q.Were you studying medicine at the University in Vilna before the war broke out? A.Yes, I was in Vilna... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 256,050 | 256,550 |
the hospital room. My comrades were lying in the same room. I felt that my leg was bandaged and I couldn't move it; and I felt severe pain. During the next few days I developed high temperature. I remember that my leg was bandaged. I remember in the first days that Oberhauser used to come each day and give me injection... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 256,500 | 257,000 |
the witness properly identified the Defendants Gebhardt, Oberhauser and Fischer. THE PRESIDENT:The record will so show. BY MR. McHANEY: Q.Now, Witness, when did you leave the hospital after this operation on the 7th October 1942? A.My wound was so big that I had to stay in the hospital about half a year. At the beginni... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 256,950 | 257,450 |
anybody. When I was taken to the hospital I was sure that I was going to be shot down, because I remember that all my comrades belonging to the same transport who had boon shot down were taken out of the blocks in the same way. Q.Now, do you know approximately how many women were operated on experimentally at Ravensbru... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 257,400 | 257,900 |
A through G." (Documents were submitted to the witness) Q.Are those all pictures taken of you here in Nurnberg? A.Yes. MR. McHANEY:The Prosecution offers document No-1080, A through G, as Prosecution Exhibit 219, A through G. Q.Now, witness, will you please remove your stocking and shoe from the leg on which the operat... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 257,850 | 258,350 |
the bone is completely denuded. All this is hard bone surface, covered by skin only. This (indicating), is the bone directly, fibular as well as tibial. You can feel both bones. This is the fibular bone and this is the tibial. You cannot normally feel these bone here (indicating), because they are covered by muscle. Th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 258,300 | 258,800 |
the small toes of the right foot involves only the end phalanges--that means the tips only--indicating that this residual motion is entirely carried out by the small muscles of the foot, and that the extensor digitorum longus is likewise missing. All these disturbances reveal themselves in the gait of the patient. (To ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 258,750 | 259,250 |
is thickened with marked thickening of the periosteum, indicating r pair following osteomyelitis I repeat, here is the osteomyelitis of the fibula (indicating). Here is the bone defect (indicating), the cystic defect resulting probably from the removal of sequester or probably removal of part of bone with subsequent in... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 259,200 | 259,700 |
Tribunal. There will be order in the courtroom. THE PRESIDENT:Mr. Marshal, ascertain if the defendants are all present. THE MARSHAL:May it please Your Honor, all defendants are present in the courtroom. THE PRESIDENT:Secretary-General, note that fact for the record, the defendants are all present in the court. The pros... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 259,650 | 260,150 |
time to have him summoned to the witness stand. THE PRESIDENT:Will the Marshal summon the witness Leo Miochalowski. Will this witness testify in the German language? MR. McHANEY:Yes, sir. LEO MIECHALOWSKI, a witness, took the stand and testified as follows: BY THE PRESIDENT: Q.The witness will state his name. A.My name... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 260,100 | 260,600 |
and from there still other priests were assembled until about ninety priests had been assembled altogether, and from there we were sent to Stutthof near Danzig into the concentration camp which was located there. And, from there on the fifth or ninth of February we were transferred to Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg which is... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 260,550 | 261,050 |
our blocks. I sat for two days in the block and afterwards I was again called to the hospital and there I was given malaria in such a manner that there were little cages with infected mosquitoes and I had to put my hand on one of the little cages and a mosquito stung me and afterwards. I was still in the hospital for f... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 261,000 | 261,500 |
only raached for my hand and he checked my pulse, then touched my head and asked me what complications I had had. I told him what I had had after that injection And then he told the nurse to give me two tablets in order to remove the headache and and pains in my kidneys. When I had boon given that Dr. Ploettner was abo... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 261,450 | 261,950 |
of these inmates died as a result of tho malaria experiments? A.Several have died, but if this was the direct result of malaria, I do not know. I know of one case when the patient died after having boon given Perifere injections. Then I still know another priest who died, but afterwards -- and prior to his death ho was... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 261,900 | 262,400 |
Now I was told to undress. I undressed and I was examined. The physician then remarked that everything was in order. Now wires had been taped to my back, also in tho lower rectum Afterwards I had to wear my shirt, my drawers, but then after wards I had to wear one of tho uniforms which were lying there. Then I also had... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 262,350 | 262,850 |
about to die, and then I was still asking them to pull mo out because I could not stand this much longer. Then Dr. Prachtel came and ho had a little bottle, and be gave me a few drops of some liquid out of this bottle, and I did not know anything about this liquid. It had a somewhat sweetish taste. Then I lost my consc... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 262,800 | 263,300 |
a rather weak heart and I have also had severe headaches, and I also get cramps in my feet very often. Q.Do you still suffer from the effects of this experiment? A.I still have a weak heart. For example, I am unable to walk very quickly now, and I also have to sweat very much. Exactly, these are the results, but in man... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 263,250 | 263,750 |
number of cases that died as a. result of this experiment. Q.Father did you receive any preferential treatment in the Camp because you had undergone the Malaria and Freezing experiments? A.On one occasion when I was in the hospital, Dr. Prachtel told mo because you have behaved so bravely in the water, you can come at ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 263,700 | 264,200 |
of chicanery, because after we slept we had to construct some beds. And the construction of the beds in the Camp was really something terrible. The beds were torn down, frequently and we had to make them like little natch boxes, so that ultimately some people refused to go to sleep, and some fire boxes were also given ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 264,150 | 264,650 |
be used in the preparation of affidavits. As I understood at that time the purpose of the inquiry, it was that Defense Counsel wanted to meet such requirements as the Tribunal would insist upon and had hoped that the Tribunal would give them information prior to the holidays so that during the holidays they could make ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 264,600 | 265,100 |
"'I do hereby certify that I am--', stating the title of his office, 'having been duly appointed to this office by the properly constituted authority, to wit,--' and then follows a statement of the authority by which or through whom the officer was appointed. Then will follow 'on', and then will appear the date of the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 265,050 | 265,550 |
frequently mentioned the name of this Dr. Rosenthal. This contains the jurat of major Arthur K. Kant, British Army of the Rhine Investigating Officer. The second paragraph I will road: "I have been warned that this statement may be used in front of a court. I make this statement voluntarily without the use of force or ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 265,500 | 266,000 |
they were dead. The patients were entirely conscious until the last moment. It took approximately fifteen to thirty seconds to administer the injection. Dr. Oberheuser told me that the prisoners who received petrol injections were severely ill and could not be cured. "5. I have administered an overdose of morphine to a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 265,950 | 266,450 |
with clubs and placed then near the line of guards and successfully within a short time stopped these attempts that had previously reached a toll of up to twelve death daily. In Mauthausen I also witnessed punishment by beatings which were at that time administered by the block leaders after the required formalities ha... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 266,400 | 266,900 |
week and five to eight women were punished. "On the order of the Reichsfuehrer SS, Gruppenfuehrer Dr. Gebhardt of Hohenlychen carried out a series of experiments in 1942 and 1943. The problem to be solved was the therapeutic effect of a number of medicines and possibly also surgery upon gangrene. Polish women who had b... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 266,850 | 267,350 |
sufficient space in the women's camp, but duo to the mounting number of prisoners there were not sufficient beds to go around, so that people working on day and night shifts had to alternate in a bed. Consequently scabies and also some lice wore observed." I will now omit the next two or three paragraphs and will turn ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 267,300 | 267,800 |
Nutrition experiments with Saemigmark. "4. Investigations of Sturmbannfuehrer Dr. Ellenbeck. "In reference to 1: The experiments of Sturmbannfuehrer Dr. Vaernet, a Danish hormone export, took place about the middle of 1944 on order of the Reichsfuehrer SS, who had directed the Reich Physician of the SS, Dr. Grawitz to ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 267,750 | 268,250 |
All these things may be contributing factors towards the recurrence of a disease of a similar condition on a work detail, Experiments with nutrition in regard to this problem ware to be started in Buchenwald, but then called off in March 1945 due to the progress of the war. "Further experiments with human beings were c... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 268,200 | 268,700 |
I very seldom, hea* a chance to visit block 46, only when there was an inspection in which I took part. Only twice was I there and within a few days in order to observe patients, That was when, to comply with Dr. Schuler's request, I went to observe the effectiveness of his vaccine. He then asked mo to continue the obs... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 268,650 | 269,150 |
tribunal but at this time I will not read any more from it, it merely gives conditions, some of the situations existing in the camp, new arrivals of various transports, and other details. I will now ask the Tribunal to turn to Page 46 in your Document Book. This is a deposition of JADWIGA KAMINSKA, Document NumberNO-87... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 269,100 | 269,600 |
cumulative. And finally, for the admission of these affidavits in evidence there is all the less cause since the defendants accused of sulfanilamide experiments at Ravensbrueck do not deny these experiments. The affidavits of ties defendant Fischer made that quite clear; furthermore, the Prosecution has several affidav... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 269,550 | 270,050 |
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