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HARDY:I will send you up a Page 2 Your Honor. THE PRESIDENT:I have one. I have another Page 2 here. MR. HARDY:On Page 2, Your Honor, the top document isNO-190. It is offered as Prosecution Exhibit 461 and is found in the transcript on pages 4714 and was introduced during the examination of the Defendant Blome. Are you ...
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the Defendant Mrugowsky, is a rather elaborate chart of the concentration camps in Germany. The Prosecution did not have this reproduced for the convenience of the Tribuna. However, the Tribunal will note that is is attached to the original, and if they desire photostatic copies thereof, they may well have the Secretar...
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the official transcript and was offered during the cross examination of the Defendant Mrugowsky. This has the original signature of Lolling. The next is DocumentNO-1189, which is offered as Prosecution Exhibit 471 and is found in the original transcript on page 5440 and was offered during the cross examination of the D...
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Your Honors, it amazed me no end that Dr. Seidl hasn't seen this before, because it was a tonic of conversation here for several weeks that we had a document, an original report of the experiments of Gebhardt, and it seems to me that I recall even chatting with Defense Counsel about it, but I may be recalling incorrect...
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the signature of Grawitz. MR. HARDY:This is a letter by Grawitz to the Reichsarzt-SS on sterilization dated 7 September 1942. THE PRESIDENT:The pages were not clipped together. I assumed that the exhibit constituted only the first page which is a complete document. JUDGE SEBRING:I notice that in your schedule you have ...
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page 5648 of the transcript and was introduced during the cross examination of the Defendant Poppendick, and this bears the original initials of Dr. Ding. The next document, Your Honor, isNO-975. It was offered as Prosecution Exhibit 479, which is found on page 5837 of the official transcript and was introduced during ...
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6411; it was introduced during the cross-examination of the Defendant Rose; a letter to Professor Schilling. It is a file copy. The next document, Your Honor, is DocumentNO-1752, which is offered as Prosecution Exhibit 487, found on page 6415 of the record. It was introduced during the cross-examination of the Defendan...
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no document number assigned to it. Apparently we just missed the number entirely during the course of presentation, so that is an empty document number, Your Honors. I will give the Secretary General a file folder with the exhibit number and annotation "Not assigned" thereon, for his files. The next document, Your Hono...
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MR. HARDY:I note that DocumentNO-1461should be NO-2911, so if you have a document that is .... it should be marked in pencil 2911. This is a letter to SS Gruppenfuehrer Welff, dated 22 February 1941, so that you will identify it properly for marking it, Your Honor. Do you find that discrepancy? THE PRESIDENT:Yes. MR. H...
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this document. JUDGE SEBRING:Does it have a printed letterhead? MR. HARDY:No, this is purely a carbon copy, Your Honor, and from what files it came I am unable to tell you. I will have to consult Dr. Hochwald. THE PRESIDENT:Can you obtain that information from Dr. Hochwald during the afternoon recess? MR. HARDY:I will ...
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to object to that one, and Dr. Hochwald will handle both objections at this time. THE PRESIDENT:The counsel for Defendant Brack will state his objection. DR.FROESCHMANN: (Counsel for Defendant Brack.) Mr. President, I object to these two documents. They are not signed, they are carbon copies of a letter which we never ...
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Prosecution does not contend that this letter,NO-365, was sent to the Defendant Brack, but the but the document itself shows what in this conference was decided; and for this purpose, this document was put into evidence on the part of the Prosecution. The file note, DocumentNO-997, is only supporting Document NO-365. B...
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an affidavit which was introduced during the cross examination of the Defendant Beiglboeck. These two affidavits and two documents are in good order and have jurats thereon, Your Honor. The next document isNO-3342, which is Prosecution Exhibit 510, which is found on page 8870 of the record and which was introduced duri...
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which is Prosecution Exhibit 517, which is an application for participation in the various malaria experiments at the federal prisons. This is found on page 9139 of the transcript and was introduced during the testimony of the witness Ivy. The next document is 3964, which is Prosecution Exhibit 518, which is found on p...
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the Tribunal. It just says, "Signed, signature." The document, however, shows that this was not signed by the defendant, Dr. Hoven but by someone named Plaza. I should like that to be put in the copies so that there is no confusion with the Defendant Hoven. MR. HARDY:There is absolutely no confusion, Your Honor. The Pr...
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Tribunal I did not give Exhibit 527 and Exhibit 526 the same document number. They came undee the same cover. The affidavit of Dr. Kempner applies to both documents, as you can see. I have given them individual document numbers and exhibit numbers for the convenience of the Tribunal. THE PRESIDENT:I don't find any stat...
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documents? Would you kinkly tell Dr. Froeschmann to put on his earphones and hear my presentation of the documents before he starts to object to these documents? THE PRESIDENT:He has them on, counsel. He is wearing them right beside you there. MR. HARDY:He took them off now. These documents, Your Honor are already now ...
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and by the witness Pfannmueller. Whatever Your Honors wish to see, this document now contains a jurat in the order prescribed by the Tribunal for admissibility. If Your Honors wish to have it bear the same exhibit number or have me give it a new exhibit number, I will do whatever you wish. THE PRESIDENT:Do I understand...
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Bauer, which was as you will recall, from the Vienna police file. The document now contains a jurat, as I had it sent down there and a member of the C.I.C., Lionel A S chaffro, called in Mr. Bauer and took his oath. JUDGE SEBRING:Did it appear in a book? MR. HARDY:Pardon, Your Honor? JUDGE SEBRING:Did it appear in a do...
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way, as indicating that that copy has been turned over to Military Tribunal I in connection with this trial. Mr. HARDY: Your Honor, I will give it an exhibit number if that will be convenient. JUDGE SEBRING:If you give it an exhibit number you may be placed in the position of having to furnish copies to the Court and t...
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Weltz. Mr. HARDY: Defense Counsel for Defendant Weltz is not here in the Courtroom, Your Honor. Dr. FLEMMING: Mr. President, you just said that you had documents from several defense counsel. Would you be kind enough to tell me all the names, and then I shall see which of those defense counsel I can find THE PRESIDENT:...
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since we are at the end of the presentation of evidence. I had the following idea. I should like to suggest this to the Tribunal and perhaps the Tribunal will agree with me: If the defense counsel can give the Tribunal the German original of these documents which were have been down for translation but not returned yet...
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Tribunal and the Secretary General the original of the documents still outstanding and that during the recess before the final pleas, the Prosecution can determine whether they have any objection, and then the Tribunal might inform the defense counsel in writing whether the documents are admitted or not. That might exp...
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those three large document cases, you only have miscellaneous documents from each one of the other defendants. It seems to me they could put those in through the interpreters. THE PRESIDENT:It seems to me also that if Defense Counsel who just have one or two documents could be prepared to have those documents here in G...
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tomorrow morning. Official transcript of the American Military Tribunal in the matter of the United States of America against Karl Brandt, et al, defendants, sitting at Nurnberg, Germany, on 2 July 1947, 0930-0945, Justice Beals, presiding. THE MARSHAL:Persons in the court room will please find their seats. The Honorab...
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out and Captain Rice asked you to fill that out and send it back to me. I wish that you would bring that up into final form and submit it to me at the termination of your case, some time in the next few days. I have only two of those so far. If you have turned this in to Captain Rice get it back and make a complete rep...
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ten days. ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL:I wish to explain this further. I am not completely familiar with my records. I have the records up 99% correct and all I need is a little information from you to make sure I do have them correct. Maybe you misunderstood me or I didn't make myself clear in that respect, but a visit...
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PRESIDENT:We expected we would have copies. We would like that but I since counsel brought the matter up he may read it into the record and furnish the stencil later. DR. TIPP:This is Becker-Freyseng Document No. 80. MR. HARDY:It would be difficult for the translators to follow in this brief argument that is prepared i...
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may be put in. This memo has been put in the record before. I merely will read the prosecution's contention. DocumentNO 185, is that the translation in issue should read as follows: "Today again I stand before a decision which after numerous animal as well as human experiments on voluntary experimental subjects demands...
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defendant Brack, as brought to light in my defense in June 1944, met Brigadefuehrer Globocnik in Berlin. Now, comes Document 53, the expert opinion of Dr. Walther Rump, 11 June 1947, Exhibit 48. MR. HARDY:I must object to this affidavit. This affidavit of Dr. Rump contains information concerning the availability of X-r...
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those two documents in which I objected to, from which the representative of the prosecution, Dr. Hochwald wanted to prove that Brack participated in the extermination of Jews. In the cross-examination, I have already raised an objection to this and in three exhibits I have proved that during the time from September, 1...
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to me whose names were Wetzel, but I did not find that man. I believe, therefore, that it is Brack's right, in view of all that I found out in the meantime, to make supplemental explanations - and these are only supplemental explanations in that documents. I consequently ask that these documents 63 and 64 be accepted i...
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does not appear that these documents are admissable. DR. FROESCHMANN:Document No. 60 will be Exhibit 52. This affidavit by Tuessling concerns Brack's activities in having prisoner's released for Christmas, Hitler's birthday, etc., from concentration camps. I just received this a couple of days ago. This is Brack Exhibi...
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file note is contained, regarding a conference with business manager Dr. Haubold of the Foreign Department of the Reich Chamber of Physicians, and in some way or other this is supposed, to incriminate the defendant Blome. Of this Foreign Department of the Reich Chamber of Physicians there had never been any mention bef...
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regard. THE PRESIDENT:Counsel, was this document to which you refer put in by the Prosecution exhibited to the defendant Blome while on the stand by way of cross examination. DR. SAUTER:No. THE PRESIDENT:Well if this document which the Prosecution recently put in was not exhibited to the defendant Blome on cross examin...
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can only deny emphatically." Nurenberg, 1 June 1947, (signed) Kurt Blome. This is Blome Document 27, and it will be Exhibit 25. That concludes my defense, Your Honors. DR. SERVATIUS (Dr. Servatius for Karl Brandt): THE PRESIDENT:Well, Doctor, I do not believe the Tribunal has received the English documents for Karl Bra...
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not help me much. If the English exists I do not see why I could not have it now and then follow him more handily with the English. If he is introducing excerpts from the Pohl case, which are five excerpt and I can see that the Secretary General has certified them to be true copies, then I have no objections, I can rea...
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back to you. THE PRESIDENT:Just keep them. It will be possible to have them certified by the Secretary General. MR. HARDY:These apparently belong to somebody's completed file. They may possibly be from your file. THE PRESIDENT:They were handed to me by the Translation Department directly. I noticed that, but I - MR. HA...
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Hoven was in English. That had to be translated into German. They have not got the German document book together yet. DR.FROESCHMANN (For defendant Brack): The ruling of the Tribunal on the application by my colleague Sauter makes me believe that perhaps the Tribunal misunderstood me. I cannot talk as loudly as my coll...
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on the stand or offered by way of rebuttal, and very properly, the Tribunal is disposed to allow the defendant to deny those affidavits if they had not been called to the defendant's attention while the defendant was on the stand. That was the occasion of the ruling on the document offered by Dr. Sauter. MR. HARDY:Well...
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the stand had the opportunity to tell his story. Prosecution on rebuttal has the right to show his story is incorrect. That cannot be carried on indefinitely by then denying what Brack had the right to testify to when he was on the stand. DR. FROESCHMANN:In my opinion these documents are not rebuttal evidence but are b...
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ready. This was the statement made by the President. Today I have these two affidavits and I tried to submit them to the Translation Department. I was told there that they could not be accepted anymore. In addition, all the documents which have been submitted since Monday were sent back with the notation that they coul...
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Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Services and the General Quartermaster of the Army will receive the necessary authorization in connection with my General Commissioner for Health and Medical Services. (Signed) Adolf Hitler" MR. HARDY:Will Dr. Servatius kindly make a statement regarding the authenticity of this document? ...
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It concerns the death case which arose during the experiments and I submit this document in supplementation of what the Prosecuhas already offered. MR. HARDY:May your Honors please, the original document is in the English language. DR. SERVATIUS:I don't know whether the Tribunal has the entire article before it. I have...
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think that is all that will be necessary. THE PRESIDENT:Counsel may proceed. DR. SERVATIUS:Mr. President, then the Translation Division must be told to carry out that translation because they returned the document to me. THE PRESIDENT:When did you deliver the document to the Translation Department. DR. SERVATIUS:Two da...
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the defendants maintained that a number of points are contained in the questionnaires which have nothing at all to do with Euthanasia, but merely served the purpose of camouflage to conceal the mere matter of the intention. This, of course, was a statement which could be met with certain amount of suspicion, but now he...
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arrived in time. I might add, if the witness only appeared three days later I might have been able to submit it sooner. I still came in time. MR. HARDY:The solution is to have Dr. Servatius translate it himself. He is capable of doing so and can have it certified and put it in. THE PRESIDENT:Very well, that may be done...
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general large scale Jewish transports, to Poland, together with the personnel of the institution, where they disappeared. In the case of only the Jews who were in socalled privileged mixed marriages, and in the case of Jew of foreign nationality, were not transferred directly to Poland, but stayed there until very late...
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No. 21, which I offer as Rudolf Brandt Exhibit 21, which is an affidavit of Frau Erna Brosig, nee Ladewig This statement also is a statement concerning the defendant Rudolf Brandt personality. This concludes the submission of evidence on behalf of the defendant Dr. Rudolf Brandt. THE PRESIDENT:Very well, counsel. I wil...
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at 1:30. I would ask Dr. Flemming, counsel for Poppendick, how many affidavits he proposes to offer, outside of this transcript from Tribunal No. II; all that is necessary to offer with that is a certificate from the Secretary General. Outside of that I understand you have five documents? DR. FLEMMING:Mr. President, in...
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to his attention, signs the following affidavit to be put in as evidence before the Military Tribunal No. 1 in Nurnberg: I. Regarding the Person" I may skip the first few sentences and I shall begin about twothirds of the way down: "At the beginning of March of 1943 I, as chief medical officer was appointed Sea Emergen...
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the following technical means were issued in the sea emergency service: (a) In the ship hospitals of the rescue ships, hot baths were installed. (When I arrived in Norway this reconstruction had to a large part been.) Moreover, there were electrical heating rooms used there. (b) In the emergency rescue boats, the radia...
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discussed by the witness Haagen in his direct examination here. The Prosecutor at that time wished to have this document shown to him and I am taking into consideration that wish and the document is now. The translation into English is not yet ready but I may perhaps put it in and I am sure the translation will soon be...
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he requested. As I remember, Teitke shortly thereafter came to Berlin and telephoned me to ask about this letter. I advised him to turn to the Health Department of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, since in my opinion, that office was competent. I never had anything officially to do with the matters mentioned in the ...
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tomorrow morning. THE PRESIDENT:I was assured the Sievers documents would be ready at one-thirty and we should have the rest this afternoon and I do not desire to recess, and we can go ahead with these this afternoon. MR. HARDY:They are not here yet, Your Honors. Shall we wait for them a few moments? THE PRESIDENT:Has ...
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Question of Sterilization by Way of Drugs, Using Caladium Sequinum', are certainly honest, but are of no importance regarding the question of caladium sequinum's sterilization effects. These effects are part of a general toxic effect of caladium extract. Caladium can be used for sterilizing, or achieve the same effects...
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the Prosecution on Saturday, namely,NO 2631, which was accepted in evidence--an affidavit by Ackermann. I could not put in this affidavit earlier than right now because the Prosecution put in its Document 2631, Exhibit 522, only last Saturday. Since this document was accepted in evidence last Saturday, I could not brin...
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the concentration camp a very bad reputation. I still remember for certainty that Josef Ackermann in about the year 1942 or 1943 betrayed a few prisoners who had stolen some food in the camp to the SS camp management--namely, to the head of the administrative custody camp, Schober. Among the prisoners whom Josef Ackerm...
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with the head of the Translation Department. In the meantime I would have Dr. Froeschmann interpret the document to Mr. Hardy, the one he read here in Court. The Tribunal will now be in recess. THE MARSHAL:Persons in the court room will please find their seats. The Tribunal is again in session. DR.STEINBAUER: (Counsel ...
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Tschofenig analyzing an x-ray. I do not see how he can qualify to give expert testimony as to whether or not Tschofenig is qualified to testify in the manner that he did before the Tribunal. THE PRESIDENT:Dr. Steinbauer, I do not see how this affidavit can be admissible in the absence of any knowledge on the part of yo...
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I have submitted that in this document, and this document was also submitted before the IMT as USA Exhibit 486. I am merely submitting this document in order to illustrate what Himmler meant when he referred to the Commissar Order during this conference at Easter 1942. The next document, your Honor, will be Sievers Doc...
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regarding Sievers. This is Document 59, Exhibit 55. Already before Sievers' direct examination I have endeavored to obtain a psychological opinion regarding Sievers's personality. Professor Villinger, professor of psychiatry and neurology and the director of the University Neurological Clinic at Marburg, has agreed to ...
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war he had been asked, "Where was the resistance against National Socialism?" This classical witness for the movement against the regime says with great emphasis: "The resistance was right here." It describe in detail the difficulties which every resistance entailed. He said, for instance, that the spreading of leaflet...
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that day. When I returned to my office in the Defense Information Center Feix was no longer there and I was told that he had been picked up by a representative of the Prosecution and it was no longer possible for me to establish further connection with him. After this incident I immediately made the application to the ...
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asked the Tribunal's permission that I obtain an affidavit from my client in regard to one document offered by the prosecution. This was approved by the Tribunal and I should therefore ask you to accept this affidavit as Sievers affidavit No. 60. The affidavit has not yet been translated. MR. HARDY:I don't recall any a...
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by the prosecution, the contents of which have not been mentioned during the direct nor the cross examination, I must consider that the rights of defense of my clients are being limited. For that reason I must ask you to permit this affidavit to enter the record, since it is not too long and since its translation will ...
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such evidence, after this time the prosecution could offer further documents to attack this affidavit, and the chain would never end. The Tribunal is of the opinion that this affidavit is too late when offered at this time, and the objection is sustained. When I told defense counsel that from time to time they were per...
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on 3 July 1947, 0930, Justice Beals presiding. THE MARSHAL:Persons in the courtroom will please find their seats. The Honorable, the Judges of Military Tribunal I. Military Tribunal I is now in session. God save the United States of America and this honorable Tribunal. There will be order in the court. THE PRESIDENT:Mr...
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Socialists during the Nazi regime. This Professor Meyer Abich knows Mrugowsky for many years and knows that Mrugowsky was a follower of Holism. He also speaks of Mrugowsky's personality. The next document is Mrugowsky No. 107. I offer this document as Mrugowsky No. 101. It is an affidavit signed by the Kapo Arthur Diet...
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document contains an affidavit signed by Dr. Erwin Schilling. Schilling was the chief of Department 16 ever since 1944 where he acted as a hygiene Referent. He therefore knows about the authority and the significance of the hygiene Referent at Department 16. He also knows about Ellenbeck's activity, who is repeatedly m...
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with Dr. Ding. On this occasion Ding showed me a paper signed by Grawitz and by which he, Ding, was ordered to conduct these experiments, Ding said, 'You can see that I've been very careful. I've thought all the time that one day one of you jurists will poke his nose into this business, so I insisted on having the orde...
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summer of 1942. That is from June until the last third of August. This is the time when the sulfonamide experiments took place. His testimony shows that even during this time Mrugowsky was not in Berlin. The next will be Document Mrugowsky No. 120 which will become Mrugowsky Exhibit 110. It is signed by Dr. Hans-Dieter...
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completely refutes his testimony. DR. FLEMMING:Mr. President, in this connection, let me say that Mrugowsky had no opportunity to reply to those documents submitted, in Poppendick's, Rose's and the other co-defendant's cross examinations that took place after his own examination. In Dr. Rose's examination, for instance...
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whether we have a copy of that or not, counsel. DR. FLEMING:I don't think the Tribunal has a copy. I only received tho certification for that document yesterday and I haven't yet received my copy. However, there must be the original document from the IMT trial. MR. HARDY:If Dr. Fleming could give us the page number of ...
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document for translation? DR. FLEMING:I am just being told that the affidavit was taken down on the 25th of June and was sent down to the language division on the same day but only yesterday the mimeographed copy came back to us, so that it was only translated yesterday. MR. HARDY:The translation division Ms no record ...
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Gentlemen of the Tribunal I have not yet received these documents in translation. THE PRESIDENT:I understand that they are translated and will be available within a very few moments if they are not already prepared. DR. MARX:Very well, your Honor. THE PRESIDENT:Any other documents to be offered by defense counsel? Ther...
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paragraph because I think it is especially striking: "Naturally, the basis of every friendship is personal sympathy, besides this, however, respect of each other's personality must also be present, in order to ensure a friendship of long standing and it was just this respect of Herr Schroeder's personality, which I pos...
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to Schroeder's and Becker Freyseng's personality. I will assign Exhibit number 22 to this document. THE PRESIDENT:Counsel, is that marked Exhibit 21 or 22? 22 is correct? DR.MARX: 22 --22. The next document is 31. This is an affidavit of Dr. med. Habil Fritz Roeder in Goettingen 9 May 1947. It also deals with the resea...
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say that this exhibit was offered on behalf of defendant Becker-Freyseng. MR. HARDY:And Schroeder. DR. MARX:Primarily for Professor Schroeder but also for Becker Freyseng because it deals with the same subject; but if there are misgivings against that I shall offer it only for Professor Schroeder. It belongs in the Sch...
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be admitted and received in evidence as Schroeder Exhibit 24. DR. MARX:Schroeder Exhibit 24. The next document is Document No. 33 which will be Exhibit No. 25. This is a report by Dr. Med. Hermann about the experiments performed by Professor Vollhardt in his own clinic in Frankfort on the Main. There were four doctors ...
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HARDY:No objection to it. THE PRESIDENT:That is Schroeder Exhibit No.33. MR. HARDY:Exhibit No. 25. DR. MARX:The next document and the last document which I have to offer is document 34. This is an affidavit of the Chief Nurse Karin Huppertz, Berlin-Nicolassee. During the course of examination of Professor Haagen it was...
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the extract of the testimony before the International Military Tribunal and it has not been received. Is that correct, counsel? MR. HARDY:Your Honor, defense counsel, in that particular document, wasn't introducing an extract of the International Military Tribunal, but introducing a document used before the IMT, as a d...
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well, counsel. Nothing further to be offered by any defense counsel, the prosecution may proceed. MR. HARDY:The prosecution is prepared to proceed if the defense counsel got the rebuttal books. THE PRESIDENT:Have defense counsel the English rebuttal document books? If not will the defense advise the Tribunal. Are books...
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the position that this document can not be admitted in evidence. MR HARDY:And for the convenience of the court. THE PRESIDENT:Counsel, the document consists of approximately 66 pages, and seems to me more than an index. But in any event the document is probable admissable for the Tribunal for its use but it appears to ...
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and No. 4069 as Prosecution Exhibits 564 and 565 respectively. DR. GAWLIK:Mr. President, I object. First of all for a formal reason, because the documents were not submitted 24 hours beforehand according to the ruling of the Tribunal. In view of the great length of these two documents it is not possible for me to exami...
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forth in his argument. If he desires to bring any argument in his brief or in oral argument he may call attention to these documents. MR HARDY:May it please Your Honor, during the course of the cross-examination of the witness Horn, who appeared here in behalf of the defendant Hoven, I asked him certain questions conce...
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the German document book it says, the note of the translator, "The above translation was prepared from an original written in poor English. No responsibility taken for interpretation." The translation from the original text which Horn gave -- Horn gave the affidavit in German and it was translated into English, and acc...
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showing you this document in English, which shows in English the translator of the document does not want to be responsible for this English, that he did not translate it and it was in poor English and that accounts for the translation being was it is. I am sure Dr. Pelckmann has something to say in this matter. I wish...
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to page 118 of your Document Book you will find a certificate here from Councillor of the District Court wherein the witness Mennecke was tried and sentenced to death. And these photos, as stated in the affidavit, are photos which were found according to the Eichberg case among the possessions of Dr. Mennecke. They are...
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Honor. This is document No. 2436 which is found on page 130 of your Honor's Document Book. I will mark it as Exhibit 568. This is an extract from the Mennecke trial and is duly certified by the Landgerichtsrat and the contents are obvious - I won't bother to read them, they verify the photographs which are introduced i...
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so that the defendant Beiglboeck can comment in his closing brief on this affidavit in connection with what Prose cution has now said. MR. HARDY:I explained to defense counsel that he could have a representative of the Secretary General's office appear with him in an interrogation and the document could be presented to...
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which is dated 20 August 1942 which refers to reports of the deaths of political Russians. This document has an initial on it which is the initial "H" which prosecution contends to be the initial of the defendant Hoven. The document refers to the reports of deaths of political Russians and states that it may affect the...
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illegible." Unless the translator was familiar with the case, they wouldn't know what initial "H" means, your Honor and I am calling that to your attention. DR. GAWLIK:I also ask to draw the attention of the Tribunal to the fact that, according to proof, there was also a camp physician with the name of Hover, H O V E R...
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in evidence, the Tribunal will rescind its ruling and admit the affidavit in evidence and give it an exhibit number in accordance with the sequence of the affidavits on the part of the defendant Sievers. DR.WEISGERBER: (Counsel for defendant Sievers) Mr. President, at the moment I do not have the document before me. Wi...
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number of essential points with their clients. We would be grateful to you, Mr. President, if you could see to it that defense counsel could get into contact with the defendants of this trial - this trial only - either tomorrow morning or Saturday morning in order to enable us to conclude our closing briefs and final p...
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and giving him credit. He emphasized particularly Schaefer's rejection of the Berka method, his rejection of the experiments with that method and his reasons for it had been the only proper thing to do. We feel the only correct thing and even without closing briefs or without pleas, it has become clear already today, S...
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the United States of America and this honorable Tribunal. There will be order in the court. THE PRESIDENT:Mr. Marshal, have you ascertained if the defendants are all present in court? THE MARSHAL:May it please Your Honor, all the defendants are present in the court. THE PRESIDENT:The Secretary General will note for the...
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presenting the case-inchief and rebuttal evidence. Thirty-two witnesses gave evidence orally for the prosecution and thirty witnesses, in addition to the twentythree defendants, gave evidence for the defense. The prosecution submitted in evidence 570 exhibits, most of which were German documents captured by the Allied ...
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p. 2622 was stated in the I.M.T. judgment that: "The jurisdiction of the Tribunal is defined in the Agreement and Charter, and the crimes coming within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, for which there shall be individual responsibility, are set out in Article 6. The law of the Charter is decisive, and binding upon the...
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therefore part of the law of and within Germany. One of the infirmities of dictatorship is that, when it suffers irretrievable and final military disaster, it usually crumbles into nothing and leaves the victims of its tyranny leaderless amidst political chaos. The Third Reich had ruthlessly hunted down every man and w...
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