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that the Court might have it before it. MR. HARDY:That is very true, Your Honor, As we pointed out in the first instance, when in the presentation, how, we would follow our procedure, re stated that am would use these affidavits certified by the clerk in the Documentation Division. However, if you want the original cer... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 270,000 | 270,500 |
an affidavit of Jadwiga Kaminska. This was taken in Brussels before Major Rant and states as follows: "I, Jadwiga Kaminska, 24 Avenue de 1'Yser, Brussels, make oath and state as follows: "I was arrested on 18 March 1941 and arrived in Ravensbruck on 27 September 1941 and left the camp on the 16 April 1946. "I was twice... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 270,450 | 270,950 |
Polish Patriots." Oberhauser was also asked the same question She answered that the operation had been ordered by the Gestapo. Dr. Fischer advised us to ask the Senior Doctor, Schidlausky, why we had been operated on, but after that we never saw Schidlausky again. "I was in great pain after the operation, the first two... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 270,900 | 271,400 |
not true but that we should be shot in the camp without being transferred. "I demanded of Swarzhuber that I saw Suhren; he said it was impossible. After a few days, however, I saw Suhren and told him that we would rather be killed in the camp than at Grossrosen. Suhren said he would do everything in his power to save u... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 271,350 | 271,850 |
me I was fit to be operated on. I told Oberhauser that a few weeks before I had been dismissed because I was too thin and that I had a weak heart. To this Oberhauser replied that it did not matter. I may add that between these two examinations by Oberhauser I had not other food than the normal camp diet. Oberhauser the... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 271,800 | 272,300 |
I should be able to walk in 11 days. Eight days later my plaster was removed by Doctors Oberhauser and Fischer. Doctor Schidlauski was present, but merely as an onlooker, I had a scar on my left leg on the outer part, back of the shin bone, about 10 cm. long and curved backwards about 2 cm. in its under portion. During... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 272,250 | 272,750 |
to room 4 with a slip of paper bearing the names of the 2 girls, and also on the paper was that they were to go to Lublin after they had been set free. A friend of mine who worked in the Labor Office, called Halina Strzelecka, later found a slip of paper with these two girls' names on, both followed by a cross and a da... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 272,700 | 273,200 |
she would get SS male guards and dogs to bring us along by forde. In spite of this, we attempted to hide amongst the other inmates but Binz and the camp policewomen caught us and led us off to the bunker. In the bunker, the ten of us were divided into two equal groups and each group of five was placed in a separate cel... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 273,150 | 273,650 |
(Skene was at one time block leader of my block No. 15, and she constantly beat the inmates), Opitz, Pelaum, Raabe, Schreitter, Schreiber, Dr. Sonntag (Dr. Sonntag was a sadist; he used to beat old inmates of the camp, patients, and he also beat his wife, who worked in the Revier, because she Drank. Zimmer, Winkelmann ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 273,600 | 274,100 |
United States of America, against Karl Brandt, et all defendants, sitting at Nurnberg, Germany, on 2 January 1946, 0930, Justice Beals, presiding. THE MARSHAL: The Honorable Judges of Military Tribunal 1. Military 1 is now in session. God save the United States of America and this Honorable Tribunal. There will be orde... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 274,050 | 274,550 |
said they were containing morphia and that we should drink it. We refused to drink the liquid in the glasses, but Fina went out and came back with SS nurse ERIKA and bath together forced us to drink the morphia. After that, we started feeling dizzy and sleepy and we lay down, then Erika came and gave us a morphia injec... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 274,500 | 275,000 |
do to relieve my pains. He replied 'Do not operate on them and they will not suffer'. Then he left the room. "Schidlauski came every morning at 11 o'clock for two weeks and he brought us calmative tabloids, when he could not bring them himself, he ordered nurse Erna to do it. He told her, however, not to say anything a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 274,950 | 275,450 |
he would do everything to have these operations stopped. "My second operation was carried out on 23 February 1943. As I had not got up since my first operation I was too weak to resist. Maczka came into the room with Schidlauski before the operation and asked him what was going to be done. He answered that he did not u... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 275,400 | 275,900 |
operated on her to try to remove the body of the child piece by piece, but in the meantime she got typhus and was transferred to block 11 where she died. Rosenthal and Garda often operated on pregnant women. I also saw Rosenthal come into the room at night with a syringe in his hand and the following morning several pe... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 275,850 | 276,350 |
that, since I belonged to the Polish resistance, it gave the Germans a right to carry out experiments on me. "The first dressing of my wound took place two weeks after the operation Dr. Gebhardt did it. At that time I had about 41 degree centigrade fever. My leg was in a plaster cast from hip to ankle and I could not m... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 276,300 | 276,800 |
my leg was dressed again. "Shortly after Schidlauski told me that he would have to cut off my leg. I protested and refused. We then stretched my leg which had been bent so far and placed a handbag over my knee. The plaster-case was removed and the wound dressed. Two days later Oberhauser dressed the wound which was sti... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 276,750 | 277,250 |
chamber. One of us succeeded in speaking to Suhren who told here that he had nothing to do with that, but that Gebhardt had taken all the decisions. We then hid in other blocks and took other numbers. Three French women and two Norwegian women accepted voluntarily to replace us in the lot which was to go to the gas cha... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 277,200 | 277,700 |
were therefore able to live through it, and flustrate the attempts of the Germans to do away with them. I come now to Document No.NO-864which will be Prosecution Exhibit 229. This is an affidavit of Helena Piasecka. This is the second deposition on oath of Helena Piasecka, female, of 77 Ave Wagram, Paris, amplifying he... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 277,650 | 278,150 |
on. We had no lunch. At about 1400 hours, SS Guards came in and took away my sister. I was very anxious about her and asked to be taken next so that I could find out what had happened to her. In the passage I saw trolleys of dressings and medical equipment and doctors in white coats. I then saw Dr. Trommer who asked me... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 278,100 | 278,600 |
Bunker we were moved to the Revier. We were all in a filthy condition as our clothes and bed clothes were not changed. Four women contracted scabies, but I did not. "Ten days later Villmann came with two doctors whose names I do not know to operate on me again. I was taken into the operating theater conscious, and saw ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 278,550 | 279,050 |
my leg was X-rayed by Treite. "I stayed in the Revier and in block 9 for 1 year. I then began to walk very slightly. I used two canes but it was very difficult. "In February 1945 more bone started coming out of my leg - also more pus, and I started a fever again. I stayed in bed in block 9 and was given phosphates 20 p... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 279,000 | 279,500 |
Concentration Camp in a transport draft from Osviecin..." Osviecin, your Honors, is the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. "... on 19 August 1943, and I worked in the revier as a Doctor Prisoner from September 1943 until 30 May 1945. In the beginning I worked in the Department for Contagious Diseases at Station No. 1 and th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 279,450 | 279,950 |
to be used in the attempt to replace damaged body parts of wounded German soldiers. "5. Operations were performed on one 1 Yugoslav, 1 Czech, 2 Ukranians, 2 German, and about 18 Polish women, of when six were operated whilst force was used in the bunker with the help of SS men, 2 of them were shot after their operation... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 279,900 | 280,400 |
method was tested in Osviecim, and the Tribunal will recall we submitted reports and letters from Klauberg which showed very conclusively he was working in Osviecim. The Tribunal will also recall that one of the letters or memorandum, as I recall signed by the defendant, Rudolph Brandt, stated it had been decreed by th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 280,350 | 280,850 |
operations were carried out by Dr. Fischer except for the first day, they were performed, on that day Dr. Gebhardt did the operations. I saw Dr. Gebhardt himself go into the theatre. Oberhauser told us we must all leave the Revier that day as Prof. Gebhardt was coming to operate. Two days before Prof. Gebhardt came we ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 280,800 | 281,300 |
Hohenlychen (Mecklenburg). The operations were conducted with the help of Dr. Fischer, who was Prof. Gebhardt's assistant. There was also another assistant whose name I do not know. The following camp doctors participated in this matter: Dr. Herta Oberhauser, Dr. Rolf Rosenthal, Dr. Schiedlauski, all German sisters who... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 281,250 | 281,750 |
Prof. Gebhardt, with his education, carry out these experiments? To test the new drugs of the German pharmaceutical industry; mostly cibazol and albucid were used. Even tetanus was treated in that way. The results of the treatment were not checked, or if they were, it was done in such an inadequate and superficial mann... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 281,700 | 282,200 |
do not know what was done at Hohenlychen with those pieces of bone, muscle and nerves which were cut out and taken there. "What was the fate of the patients after they left the hospital? Almost all of the patients became cripples, and have suffered very much as a result of those operations. Even more severe was the mor... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 282,150 | 282,650 |
world for those who carried out such operations? (Signed) Dr. Zofia Maczka, Stockholm, April 16, 1946. On the following page, a part of the same document and exhibit, are given certain particulars of the affiant ZOFIA WIESLAWA MACZKA, and it is particularly of interest for us to know, that she is a Doctor of Medicine a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 282,600 | 283,100 |
of her leg. And Rozalia GUTEK was not executed for a considerable period because she was not well enough to be moved. From the beginning of 1945, a doctor used to come down from BERLIN and perform sterilization operations on young GIPSY-girls. The apparatus he used was a high tension apparatus, but not X-ray. One elect... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 283,050 | 283,550 |
forth on page 1 of my Affidavit of 19 November 1945 I am able to make this statement concerning sulfanilamide experiments and especially the conference of May 1943 set forth on page 12 on my Affidavit of 19 November 1945. 3. At the conference of May 1943, which I described on page 12 of my Affidavit (last paragraph) to... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 283,500 | 284,000 |
the Defendant Karl Brandt was there; the Defendant Siegfried Handloser was there; Schroeder was there; PAUL ROSTOCK was there; HIPPKE was there; Poppendick was there; Fischer and Gebhard, of course, were there. They cannot, now, take the position that they were simply receiving information concerning an act which had a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 283,950 | 284,450 |
unable to furnish any details thereof. "3. In May of 1943 the Third Conference of the Consulting Physicians of the Wehrmacht was held at the Military Medical Academy in Berlin. The Fourth Medical Conference of the Consulting Physicians of the Wehrmacht was held at Hohenlychen from the 16th to the 18th of May 1944. "4. ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 284,400 | 284,900 |
as Prosecution Exhibit 236. The list is quite long and it would serve no useful purpose for me to read it in its entirety. However, I think it might be useful to mention a few names which appear hereon because, as Fischer has told us, this list is representative of those persons who attended the Third Medical Conferenc... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 284,850 | 285,350 |
No. 83, of course we find the Defendant Gebhardt, SS Gruppenfuehrer, and as Fischer stated, Gebhardt on this occasion was chairman of the meeting of the Surgeons' Section. The year before the Defendant Rostock had held that position but I suppose that since Gebhardt was in fact head of the SS Section of this hospital, ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 285,300 | 285,800 |
following page, 219, Poppendick, SS-Standartenfuehrer. No. 220, Rostreck, Generalarst, professor doctor. 224, Rose, Oberstabsarzt, professor doctor. 232, Schroeder, Generaloborstabsarzt, doctor. 235, Schmidt-Bruecken, Schmidt-Bruecken was, as I recall, chief of staff for a time to the defendant Handloser, chief of the ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 285,750 | 286,250 |
has completed the presentation of evidence in connection with the experiments involving sulfanilamide and bone transplantation at Ravensbruck. Other experiments to determine the efficacy of various drugs such as sulfanilamide upon wounds which were deliberately inflicted to create a condition similar to that of a battl... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 286,200 | 286,700 |
Dachau whereupon prisoners were shot in order to create a condition which would simulate that of a battlefield wound. I turn now to Document NumberNO-473, page 3 of your Honor's document book, which is offered as Prosecution Exhibit Number237. This is an affidavit of Wolfram Sievers. "I, Wolfram Sievers, being duly swo... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 286,650 | 287,150 |
to assist him in every possible way. This order to Pohl came directly from Himmler. All concentration camp inmates suffering from cancer were to be transferred his department and experiments which would serve cancer research were to be conducted on them. Blome received reports from Rascher and visited him several times... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 287,100 | 287,600 |
with Dr. Conti. The latter refused to discuss any details of this program. However, Conti did state that it concerned a secret order given to Bouhler and Brandt. One day I got an invitation to a conference in 1940 or 1941. I cannot remember the exact date of the conference which took place in Munich. Dr. Conti informed... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 287,550 | 288,050 |
had been sentenced to death and who were to be granted amnesty under certain circumstances after the experiments, were to be used. I discussed with Himmler the possibility of, after the war, finding a legal way for conducting such experiments for the solution of the cancer problem on a voluntary basis. (Signed) Kurt Bl... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 288,000 | 288,500 |
Dachau with coagulating drugs. I also call to the attention of the Court, the testimony of the witness Stoerr on Page 586 of the transcript. The witness Stoerr stated that blood coagulation experiments were carried out in the crematorium and that one had to assume that the experimental subjects died because nobody over... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 288,450 | 288,950 |
does fulfill the above requirements. 'Polygal 10' is a drug composed on a 'pictin' base; its new method, differentiating it from other homostats on a Pectin basis is to be found in the activation of Pectin before composing it into the hemostat. "Before we tried the clinical use of the drug and had it probed, it was tes... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 288,900 | 289,400 |
not be found. "From the great number of clinical cases, in which we were able to test 'Polygal 10' until now, we would like to choose a few in order to demonstrate briefly the effect in the most varied operations and illnesses. "Case Number 1 ... " These clinical cases were in the hospital at the Dachau Concentration C... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 289,350 | 289,850 |
and blood clotting time. The practical tests of this medicine, 'Polygal 10', showed under the most varied circumstances no failures up to now. No contradictory indications on the part of the heart or the circulation could be found, too, as was to be expected considering the composition of the drug. "The idea of this ex... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 289,800 | 290,300 |
that the protective-custody prisoner Boris Krajac born 25 December 1913 in Kentrida, No. A 8255, is to be released in accordance with writing of 19 November 1943 and to be sent to Berlin RSHA LV C 2. I continue to warmly recommend Krajnc's release, but urgently request that Krajnc not be taken away from me as a worker ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 290,250 | 290,750 |
"With kind regards "Heil Hitler!"R. (followed by "Si" later crossed out)".This document indicates the close contact between the Institute Ahnenerbe and the Reich Research Council, and they all fit in together. The problems were discussed among the members of both organizations, and the continuation of further programs ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 290,700 | 291,200 |
mentioned in the article. "The publication of scientific treatises is subject to the granting of the authorization to print by the senior professional authority (for SS-physician the Reich Physician SS and Police) as well as by the High Command of the Wehrmacht. "This subjection to censorship is also known to the edito... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 291,150 | 291,650 |
of resistance against freezing can be attained. Priority SS. Wehrmacht order number: SS 4891-0328 (1879/15)-III/43 2.) On 23 February 1944 Journal No. Rf 3717/44 g Codeword: 'Polygal' Research task for the development of production methods for the preparation of the humostat Polygal." MR. HARDY:Continuing on: "Priority... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 291,600 | 292,100 |
factory until the end of August or perhaps longer, that would be the most favorable solution. "I ask that you make it a point to send a copy of all reports, which you believe it necessary to send directly to me, to SS Hauptsturnfuehrer Dr. Poetner, who is the competent Department head. Heil Hitler, (signature) Sievers"... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 292,050 | 292,550 |
in connection with polygal production." And another interesting item, the next item on the page for 1 February: "Reich Research Council (RFR) Dr. Graue - Dr. Rascher:" which has been referred to in the document I have just presented: "Production of polygal as War Economy Industry of the Reich Research Council. Discussi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 292,500 | 293,000 |
28 February: "Reich Research Council: (R*R): Dr. Graue arranged a discussion with Prof. Thiessen, Prof. Blome, Dr. Rascher. "Commssioning of Dr. Rascher to do Research. Experimentation plan Borchers. Introduction of discussion of L Research." And then the last entry on the page, under 8 March: Here we have Neff reports... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 292,950 | 293,450 |
We have under the entry 26 April 1700 hours, the third paragraph under the 26th of April: "Prof. Blome (by telephone) "1. Personal report to RFSS requested on neutron experiments. 2. Possible employment of Rascher in Messelstedt would first require three month's study of bacteriology." We turn now to the next to the la... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 293,400 | 293,900 |
another entry. "Pectin in connection with Glutamin-acid yields an unequivocal effect." The Tribunal will please turn to the next page 44; at the top of the page the entry: "24 July. Prof. Blome (by telephone) By effective substance in blood coagulating material: Dyckerhoff's view confirmed, that not pectin alone but ac... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 293,850 | 294,350 |
Himmler." The words "Himmler" and the numbers, in parenthesis, 141, 184, 319, have been inadvertently omitted in restenciling this document. "The purpose was to prove that the worst diseases could be treated by biochemical methods (Record 307). The first trial was performed without a doctor (Record 307). Healthy people... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 294,300 | 294,800 |
1 Gall-stones. ........................................... 1 "According to the indications of the bio-chemistry applied to the different cases we used the following remedies: "Potassium phosphoricum D 6 Ferrum phosphoricum D 6 and D 12 Silicea D 6 Sodium Muraticum D 6 Calcium phosphoricum D 6 Sodium sulfuricum D 6 Magn... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 294,750 | 295,250 |
cases in similar conditions, of which one will receive an allopathical, the second a bio-chemical treatment. "(1. marginal note: read: Ravensbrueck 3-9-1942 signature: K. Gebhardt)." Here we find the Defendant Gebhardt fully cognizant of the work being conducted at Dachau on phlegmon experiments. "2. In the concentrati... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 295,200 | 295,700 |
an extraordinary large scale at Dachau, would be handicapped to a considerable extent, due to the absence of any medical attendance and observation on the part of a physician who is well versed in biochemical treatment. We therefore have been on the look-out for such a physician all the time, since the ranking member o... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 295,650 | 296,150 |
in Berlin. It consists of a case history of one Phlegmon experimentee, together with fever charts. I shall now real this case history which shows clearly what this one experimentee underwent: "Diagnosis Artificial Abscess on Left Thigh and Right Upper Arm. "Natorski Stefan, born 21 January 1909, Sch P 30300 "Admission:... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 296,100 | 296,600 |
the size of a half dollar piece. From the old puncture syrupy pus oozes, Tho left thigh is swollen in its entire circumference Under other anesthesia an incision is made in the middle of the inside of tho thigh; further penetration was performed with a surgical instrument. Approximately 250 cubic centimeters of yellow ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 296,550 | 297,050 |
upper arm an egg sized swelling appears on the bonding surface; skin is reddened, Light fluctuation of the swelling is noticeable. Under Chler-ethyl anesthesia incision is being made. Syrupy pus drains freely. Iodoferm gauze strip and rubber catheter arc introduced- afterwards dry dressing. The whole left arm is immobi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 297,000 | 297,500 |
Little sleep, no appetite. The wounds on the right upper arm heal well. Therapy: Externally drainage, tamponation, dry dressing, Volkmann splint. Internally: As on previous day. 8.12.42 Externally no changes on left thigh. The wound on the inside still open. The patient complains about pains in the left knee, which sho... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 297,450 | 297,950 |
mg. Crotiron i.m. 21.12.42 Only very slight swelling noticeable on left thigh. No complaints. The incisions are free of pus, and as of today, only every ether day dressed with boric acid ointment. The volkmann splint is to be remove. Internal therapy as on previous day. 29.12.42 During the last couple cf days on marked... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 297,900 | 298,400 |
d serum 4.0 mg %. There is a distinct swelling, of the liver without pressure sensitiveness, and strong yellowish discoloration on the whole body. No special comploints. Temperature and pulse remain steadily normal. 30.3.43 Bilirubin in blood serum 1.5 mg %, Takata-Ara +. 6.4.43 Bilirubin in blood serum 3.45 mg %. The ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 298,350 | 298,850 |
authorized by the Chief of the section, Mr. Millard, to certify a translation. How, it will be absolutely impossible for anyone, other than the original translator to certify a German document or a French document, whichever the case may be, to be the official translation, other than the translator himself. That case e... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 298,800 | 299,300 |
system continually here. THE PRESIDENT:This is the first time the matter has been called to the attention of the Tribunal by any objection on the part f counsel for the defense. MR. HARDY:Well, as I say, I can have the documents altered by Hr. Rapp and Hr. Favarger if the Tribunal so requests. THE PRESIDENT:Have you an... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 299,250 | 299,750 |
be afraid that as a witness he will be named through the press and every German today is afraid that his name will be at all mentioned in connection with such a trial. And this fear is not quite without reason because in the First trial, the big Nurnberg trial, we have seen cases where witnesses were arrested after the... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 299,700 | 300,200 |
I have stated from the experiences of our practice and the experiences of the first trial, and I ask you to consider those points once more; and particularly with the view to the fact if perhaps it would not still be possible to find a more simplified form of obtaining affidavits. I personally feel that the procedure i... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 300,150 | 300,650 |
by Ferdinand Holl and Rene-Colombin Magner. These are documents NC-390 and N)-881 respectively. The ejection to the admissibility - THE PRESIDENT:On which page of the document book are those found? MR. HARDY:Pages 58 and 62, Your Honor. The objection to the admissibility of these two documents is, of course, premature ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 300,600 | 301,100 |
made the statement. It does not appear from the statements themselves whether they were offered simply as admissions against evidence by the party who made them, in which event, of course, they are perfectly competent. MR. HARDY:We submit that most of these statements were signed by defense counsel as well as defendant... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 301,050 | 301,550 |
Office of the Chief of Counsel. For example, I have here in my hand an affidavit which was Exhibit No. 922 before the IMT, and which was signed and sworn to by one Kurt Smith before Doctor Robert M. Kempner, OCC also, Exhibit No. 645, before the IMT is the same. It is noted that it was witnessed by two civilians. For t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 301,500 | 302,000 |
detail. I only want to point out my doubt that such a procedure be obliged. After all, it is an official procedure. The witnesses are here and they can be placed before the Tribunal. People who are not jurist I do not consider comparable with the procedure of such importance as we are having here. THE PRESIDENT:It will... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 301,950 | 302,450 |
However, if the Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution can and will file with the Tribunal a certificate disclosing that the "U.S. Civilian Walter H. Rapp", who is purported to have administered tic oath to Rudolf Brandt, was authorized to do so, either as an officially designated member of the staff of the Prosecution o... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 302,400 | 302,900 |
concentration camps. As far as I understood, the experiments consisted of inflicting wounds upon various parts of the bodies of the experimental subjects and infecting then thereafter with Lost. Various methods of treatment were applied in order to determine the most effective one. "4. SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Dr. August H... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 302,850 | 303,350 |
these experiments. Also Professor Kurt Blome, Deputy Reich Health Leader and Deputy Reich Leader of Physicians under Dr. Conti, must have been informed of these experiments. (signed) Rudolf Brandt" I now request the Tribunal to turn to Page 4 of the document book. This is DocumentNO-199which is offered as Prosecution E... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 303,300 | 303,800 |
the removed blisters or under the scabs that have become loosened during the change of dressings. "Treatment: This is applied to cases 1 to 4 by treating both arms with continuous damp applications of remedy 'H', diluted as prescribed, 1.9 to 1.12; while in cases 5 to 8 the right arm is treated with 'H' diluted as pres... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 303,750 | 304,250 |
said the granules will become clean. "The infections induced in cases 1, 4, and 7, by a mixed culture of Strepto, Staphylo, and Pneumococci, will take somewhat different forms. Case 1 will develop symptoms of a sepsis producing high temperatures, chills, swelling of regional glands and a distention of the spleen. In ca... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 304,200 | 304,700 |
these which will soon be developed by further research work to be put to use before the beginning of summer for die benefit of our soldiers in time continuation of the operations. "The extensive resources required for such a purpose are available. Any co-workers not available as yet, will be secured. "In this matter I ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 304,650 | 305,150 |
of insecticides as a manifold moans for active and prophylactic immunization. The carrying out of the method proscribed is, decidedly, a job for the bacteriologists and hygienists. In principle, it may be possible that an active immunization of the troops can be achieved in the sense of a reduction of skin reaction to ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 305,100 | 305,600 |
position to put at your disposal for the furtherance of these experiments unique facilities in connection with special secret experiments, which we are at present conducting at Dachau. Could you not some day write a brief secret report for the Reichsfuehrer-SS on your lost experiments? "But, you should by no means go t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 305,550 | 306,050 |
a chemical student, who touched his armpit with one of the rabbits only for a second and thereby ensued a reddening which spread over the entire body the following day, however, without having further consequences. In my opinion, only a place which can be temporarily evacuated by human inhabitants can be used for gassi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 306,000 | 306,500 |
- an Acridine pigment, which I have employed for the coloring of living cells, penetrates into the nucleus, and, if adequately dosed, paralyzes the cell-proliferation, I arrived at the idea of using this pigment for the treatment of Lost-injured tissues. My thought was: The injured cells should be charged with the pigm... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 306,450 | 306,950 |
in chronic infectious diseases, tuberculosis and sometime also in connection with cancer. The further continuation of the examination of the living interior organs showed the surprising phenomenon of a substance, which we were no longer able to analyzed chemically and which seen through a fluorescence microscope omitte... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 306,900 | 307,400 |
last rat of this series of experiments was still alive after one year. The examination of the organs of the animals which had died after 8 to 14 days showed that the liver had accumulated an abundant amount of vitamin A and that only an insignificant quantity of toxic products could be traced. I was not in a position t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 307,350 | 307,850 |
the University of Strassburg by the Luftwaffe Sanitary Training Department VII, and is, therefore in a position to assist SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Professor Hirt in a series of experiments. "It would be important that through the aid of the Schutzstaffel this posting to the Anatomic Institute of Strassburg be maintained. I... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 307,800 | 308,300 |
reported the following, among other things, concerning this conference which took place at Natzweiler on 19 October 1942: 'The conference was due to the fact that until now nothing besides the detachment of Oberscharfuehrer Walbert had been accomplished. Nor had the installation of the laboratories been started to date... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 308,250 | 308,750 |
use only ten prisoners for one experiment, which might under certain circumstances 1st ten months, the costs for the prisoners alone would total approximately 4000 RM. When I think of our military research work conducted at the concentration camp Dachau, I must praise and call special attention to the generous and unde... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 308,700 | 309,200 |
to report today to the Oberstabsarzt Dr. Jaeger, Berlin-Tempelhof, Manfred von Richthofenstrass 6/II. As Jaeger is going to be absent until 27 April Dr. Wimmer will have to wait for a decision until that date. The transfer of Dr. Wimmer means discontinuance of the gas experiments at Natzweiler and Strasbourg, as 1) rep... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 309,150 | 309,650 |
that the transfer be performed as soon as possible, as it would be doubtful otherwise, whether the further war-important experiments of Professor Dr. Hirt, which, due to his state of health, can no longer be carried out by him alone, and could be continued. "I beg you to inform me without delay what has been done in th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 309,600 | 310,100 |
poisons have to be used. "In the course of the researches the collaborators: Dr. Wimmer and Frl. Schmitt have now contracted injuries to their health which according to the opinion of an official doctor can only be removed through an increased supply of fat and milk. In order to prevent the loss of both assistants thro... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 310,050 | 310,550 |
of the healing process can be thereby be considerably decreased. Supporting measures to be taken are bandaging the affected limb in splints until the appearance of clean granulation or placing the patient in a suitable recumbent position as well as vigorous, systematic psychotherapy. The psychological influencing of th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 310,500 | 311,000 |
skin coloring. cardiac muscle damage with tachycardics, kidney damage with albumen secretion in the urine) treatment with vitamin mixtures is to be discontinued and to be substituted by injections of vitamine B glucose. Injections are to be given slowly, since at the height of Lost damage the veins of tho arms incline ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 310,950 | 311,450 |
the Tribunal the nature of Fuehrer order. The next letter is documentNO 013, which is offered as Prosecution Exhibit No. 271. This is from Rudolf Brandt, dated 10 March 1944, addressed to Dr. Grawitz, Reichsarzt SS and Police SS Gruppenfuehrer. "Enclosed I am sending you a copy of a Fuehrer Decree of 1 March 1944 for y... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 311,400 | 311,900 |
which I enclose a copy so you can show it to the Reichsfuehrer-SS if necessary. "Prof. Brandt explained to me that he would be in Strassbourg during the first week in April and would then discuss details with Prof. Hirt and got in touch with me again afterwards. I shall always keep you informed." Now, we are beginning ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 311,850 | 312,350 |
on page 55 of the English Document Book, and we offer this Document as Prosecution's Exhibit No. 278. This is a letter from Pohl, Chief of the SS-Economic and Administrative Main Office to the defendant Rudolf Brandt. It is dated 22 June 1933, and it is in response to the letter written by the defendant Karl Brandt wit... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 312,300 | 312,800 |
University Teacher Dr. Sachs, as well as the doctor working on ancestrial heritage --" Which means the Ahnenerbe Society. "SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer, University Teacher Dr. Ploetner." The Tribunal will recall, we have here Dr. Ploetner who was mentioned previously in connection with experiments at Dachau, more particularly ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 312,750 | 313,250 |
there will be little question but that this order in fact meant that medical experimentation on concentration camp inmates had to be cleared through those three individuals because in the letter itself they are asking permission from Heinrich Himmler to carry out these experiments. The writer of the letter says. "In ac... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 313,200 | 313,700 |
it? The Fuehrungshauptamt, headed by Hans Goettner. Why did he get it? He got it for the reason that he was chief of the operational headquarters of the Waffen SS. In other words, it was his agency which directed the fighting troops of the SS in the field; and as such he, of course, was considerably interested in probl... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 313,650 | 314,150 |
name is spelled H-o-l-l ? A.Yes, that's correct. Q.You were born on 21 December 1900 at Landsweiler-Reden, Kreis Ottweiler? A.That is correct. Q.You are a German citizen? A.I am a German citizen. Q.And you are at present domiciled at 6 Wilhelmstrasse, in LandsweilerReden? A.Yes, 6 Wilhelmstrasse at Lansweiller-Reden. Q... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 314,100 | 314,600 |
this whole block with the Ahnenerbe subordinate to me as the so-called Kapo or Capo of the Ahnenerbe. Q.In other words, you were something in the nature of a chief nurse in the Ahnenerbe? A.Yes. Q.Now did you have any occasion while you were working as a nurse in the Ahnenerbe to witness any experiments carried out on ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 314,550 | 315,050 |
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