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Rose, dated 5 June 1943, care of the Inspectorate of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe. "Dear Mr. Rose, In completion of our telephone call I received a letter today by Mr. Giroud, copy of which is attached. It reveals that not only 12.5 percent of the vaccinated animals may be used, but that this number concerns ra... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 405,000 | 405,500 |
296, Your Honor. Pardon me, I haven't introduced it. It is Exhibit number 296, that is Document numberNO-306. Now, in this last paragraph, Your Honor, we find the gentleman referred to having complete knowledge of the various organizations and whether or not a new research order will be produced, and he has cognizance ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 405,450 | 405,950 |
persons for vaccination in your experiment, you requisition a corresponding number of persons for vaccination with the Copenhagen vaccine. This has the advantage, as also appeared in the Buchenwald experiments, that the testing of various vaccines simultaneously gives a clearer idea of their value than the testing of o... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 405,900 | 406,400 |
with these experiments. Now, after such a letter as this, Professor Rose cones to us and tells us that he had no knowledge that a virulent virus was being used, that he was completely unaware of such a thing. I wonder. We turn now to page 80, Document numberNO-311, which is offered as Prosecution Exhibit No.299. This i... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 406,350 | 406,850 |
and administered to human beings by intra-muscular injection in quantities of 1.10 to 1.5 cubic centimeters and at intervals of about one week. A typical reaction to the vaccine could be observed on some 200 subjects. A certain number of them showed mild forms of influenza with neuralgic and rheumatic symptoms, a mild ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 406,800 | 407,300 |
cultures. The first culture has been bred on as many as fifteen successive mice; the other two on three to five successive mice. The mice are infected and slow the charactic symptoms of a virulent disease in both the lungs and the liver. The virus can be successfully bred from mouse to mouse by intra-nasal instillation... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 407,250 | 407,750 |
about two hundred eggs which were infected consecutively. The Rickettsia Prowazeki and also Rickettsias of the muriatic typhus variety were used as virus cultures. The vaccination of the eggs was carried out in the same way as in the preparation of the vitelline-sac vaccine. Age of the embryos at time of vaccinations 7... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 407,700 | 408,200 |
to introduce a serious factor of uncertainty because of the large limits within which the Rickettsia contents are bound to move. (Signed) Oberatabsartz Prof. Dr. E. Haagen". Now the next document is on Page 88 of Your Honors ' document book. Document No.NO-123, offered as Prosecution Exhibit No.3O3. This is dated 9 May... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 408,150 | 408,650 |
defense on the part of these defendants will be the absence of a virulent virus. We have had several witnesses here to testify on this documentary evidence introduced today that is conclusive enough to show that these experiments were not of the nature that they so state. We turn again to the next document, page 89 of ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 408,600 | 409,100 |
the latter by physically in much the same condition as members of the Wehrmacht. Should there by urgent reasons why 200 experimental persons cannot be transferred to Natzweiler, then these experiments could be carried out in another concentration camp, even though this would create the greatest difficulties. In that ca... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 409,050 | 409,550 |
offered as Prosecution's Exhibit No. 305. It's a letter from Rudolf Brandt to Sievers dated 6 June 1944. "Subject: Production of a new kind of innoculation material for spotted fever. "Dear Comrade Sievers: "Many thanks for sending me the copy of your letter of 19 May 1944 to SS Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl. I have informed... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 409,500 | 410,000 |
documents it did not indicate whether or not there was any use of the spotted fever virus. They requested these prisoners to be brought out there merely to test their vaccine, but now we have a letter of the experimenter himself clearly outlining to his colleague Hirt as follows: In the second paragraph: "In the subseq... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 409,950 | 410,450 |
Exhibit No. 308. It is a letter from Dr. Hirt to Haagen dated 19 September 1944. Pardon me, Your Honor, there seem to be two dates. May I see the original? (Original is handed Prosecution Counsel). The original contains the date of 10 July as the date underneath. It is dated 10 July 1944. "Professer Haagen: "My Dear Co... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 410,400 | 410,900 |
Chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Service, who alone is competent to decide upon the procurement of vaccines has not yet taken a stand in the matter. "III. Please advise whether it may be assumed that the spotted fever epidemic prevailing at Natzweiler at present is connected with the vaccine research. "IV. The report of ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 410,850 | 411,350 |
have the opportunity to contact the General Secretary and ask him to have the books ready for that time. I suggest now that we continue with this presentation, and recommend that the books be brought to you as soon as they are available; that is, if you have not already got them. We will now turn to page 99, which is D... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 411,300 | 411,800 |
am sending you the fever curves which are on hand here. According to C (or Crediet), the original curves are still at Concentration Camp Natzweiler, Block 8, Diphtheria Room. Heil Hitler, the 1st SS Camp Surgeon, Concentration Camp Dachau." The next document on Page 102 of your Honors' document book isNO-136, which is ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 411,750 | 412,250 |
reason the witness had to make changes. The statement itself on the second page of the German translation contains the following sentence: "I admit that I also had to send reports to the OKW, The High Command of the Wehrmacht." In the sentence preceding this quotation and the sentence following the quotation, it seemed... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 412,200 | 412,700 |
there is only this testimony cf this witness, the Court would have to conclude that the head of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe, the defendant Schroeder, or his agent was informed about the details of the experiment. These points are of decisive importance for the defendant Schroeder, at least for this point of th... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 412,650 | 413,150 |
additional questions to Miss Eyer if she comes to Nurnberg and takes the stand. In other words, we shall go ahead and put in our affidavit now; and then when Miss Eyer is brought here, which will probably be after the completion of our case in chief, the prosecution can be given the right to initiate the examination of... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 413,100 | 413,600 |
Prosecution will make every effort to carry out that request, your Honor. At this time, your Honor - THE PRESIDENT:I understood Counsel for the Prosecution to say that this phase of the case would be completed this afternoon. MR. HARDY:That's correct, your Honor. We have the presentation of the typhus experiments. The ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 413,550 | 414,050 |
the illegal butchering of this cattle. With Grafe, too, Meyer had come to a rather good understanding. 4. From 1942 until 1944, that is, until the departure of Haagen from Strasbourg, I received from Meyer current information about Haagen and other important information concerning other matters through Meyer, too. I ha... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 414,000 | 414,500 |
the apparatus named on the enclosed list was ordered about a year ago at the firm Franz Bergmanh and Paul Altmann in Berlin. As I am now informed by the firm there is no possibility of manufacturing and, therefore, no possibility of delivery unless the apparatus is indicated on the SS-priority list. Since the apparatus... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 414,450 | 414,950 |
next page, 112, document numberNO-297which is dated 14 July '43. This is offered as Prosecution's Exhibit No. 316. "Subject: Research Order for Yellow Fever Vaccine," and here in the reference we see again our familiar code letters, L. In. 14, and then in parenthesis "2, Roman Numberal II. B." At this time it was Antho... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 414,900 | 415,400 |
suggested the establishment of a Typhus Vaccine Production Center at the Hygiene Institute of the Reich University at Strassburg." Then "Subject: Production of Typhus-Vaccine, addressed "To the: Reich Minister of Aviation and Supreme Commander of the Luftwaffe, Quartermaster-General Chief of Medical Service of the Luft... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 415,350 | 415,850 |
The costs for water, current and gas are charged to the University." Here is Haagen proposing the establishment of a vaccine production institute, which is based on the results of his experiments, which arc done for the benefit of the Wehrmacht. He states that the brunt of the cost will lave to be borne by the Wehrmach... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 415,800 | 416,300 |
10 to 15 percent were bedridden for 1 to 2 days. Particular symptoms reported were inflammation of the stomach and intestines, diarrhea, canker sores, a rash (like measles), chills with cramps and and case of inflammation cf the brain. "The following T.A.B.-Chel-Vaccines were delivered for distribution." The operations... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 416,250 | 416,750 |
and another witness cf two in connection with the typhus experiments, this completes the presentation of evidence in connection with the typhus, yellow fever, small pox and cholera, and the other experiments as charged in the Indictment, Count II, 6(j) and Count III, 11. The Prosecution has clearly shown the program of... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 416,700 | 417,200 |
has obtained his information, but this must be some mistake somewhere, because I know nothing about it. I am quite sure that none of the attorneys who are participating in this proceeding have so much as talked to her. Maybe by some coincidence some other section nay have some interest in her, but I have groat doubts a... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 417,150 | 417,650 |
different from the German word "Proben", which, according to my client is "sample" in English. THE PRESIDENT:I would suggest that, with the other matters that are to be investigated tonight, the matter of the correct translation of the document be also taken up this evening and reported to the Court in the morning. The... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 417,600 | 418,100 |
PRESIDENT:The witness may be. seated. I will now administer the oath to the interpreter. Raise your right hand and repeat after me: I do solemnly swear that I will perform my duties as interpreter to the Tribunal to the best of my ability and skill, so help me God. (The interpreter repeated the oath.) DIRECT EXAMINATIO... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 418,050 | 418,550 |
sent to the Protectorate Police in Cracow. Q.Then were you actually sent to the Ravensbruck Concentration camp? A.I was taken to the Ravensbruck Concentration Camp on 13 September 1941. Q.Did you remain at the Ravensbruck Concentration Camp until when, until May 2nd, 1945? A.On 26 April 1945 I left the camp, and I was ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 418,500 | 419,000 |
sick there. On 2 September 1944 I was arrested and put in a bunker in Neu-Brandenburg because the supervisor, Frieda, had found a letter in my possession, and I took the letter away from her, and destroyed it. I remained in this bunker for nineteen days, and I was to be hanged. After the nineteen days I was sent back t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 418,950 | 419,450 |
prepared for the so-called Aseptic operations. Q.Now, witness, did you ever hear of muscle and nerve experiments? A.In the bone experiments were incorporated those operations when they continued with the muscle experiments and with the experiments on the nerve. Q.Now, in other words, witness for the most part these exp... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 419,400 | 419,900 |
died because of these experiments. Q.Do you know the names of the five girls that died as a result of these experiments? A.Yes. Q.What are their names first? A.The first was Weronika Kraska. She died from tetanus infection which was given her. Q.Now witness, you have stated that Weronika Kraska died as a result of thos... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 419,850 | 420,350 |
was brought to this Room 4 she was loft these for days without any medical aid at all? A.Yes. Q.Now in this case, did you have an opportunity to observe her personally? A.Yes. Q.How long did you observe her while she was in this condition of incredible pain? A.She was there four or five days before she died. Q.Do you t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 420,300 | 420,800 |
I was able to observe it. Q.Now would you say that the death was a painful and miserable one? A.Yes. Q.Now, witness, the fourth girl that died as a result of these experiments, her name is Zofia Kiecol. Would you tell us about the conditions existing during the experimentation upon this young lady which finally resulte... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 420,750 | 421,250 |
HARDY:If it please the Court, Maria Kusmierczuk was one of the witnesses that appeared before this Tribunal early in the case. Q.Now, doctor, there were also groups of girls infected with streptococcus and staphylococcus? A.Yes. There was large groups of girls who were infected with streptococcus and staphylococcus. Q.... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 421,200 | 421,700 |
is, thirteen cases of persons whose bones had been ******** on. In my opinion there were three kinds of bone operations. They were fractures, bone transplantation with removal of bones, and so-called bone splints. The girls were operated on several times. The operations were to be aseptic but because of negligence and ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 421,650 | 422,150 |
without dressings. Marczewska was operated on once more and the clamps were removed. Those wore fracture operations. Q.As the result of those operations did they impede locomotion of the two girls operated on? A.At the time when they were in the camp, yes. I have not seen them now. Q.Now, witness, of the three, types o... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 422,100 | 422,600 |
to other operations, special operations, of the removal of whole extremities and so forth. Would you kindly toll the Court what you know about those other special operations during your time at Ravensbruck at the hospital? A.Abnormal patients, that is feeble-minded or insane, about ton of them were selected. They were ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 422,550 | 423,050 |
result of many of these girls who had been subjected to the experiment? AYes. QDid this neglect go so far that even in so-called aseptic operations, infection occurred which caused lasting and mutilating osteomyelitis? AYes. QNow, witness, in connection with the five girls, are you of the opinion, from your knowledge o... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 423,000 | 423,500 |
realize a considerable length of time has passed, but do you think that you could possibly identify Doctors Gebhardt, Oberheuser, and Fischer in this dock to your right? AYes, I can try. QWould you kindly arise from your chair and come down onto the floor and go over to the dock and pick out those three people? Point t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 423,450 | 423,950 |
know who conducted these operations? A.Among the doctors who carried out the operations I did not see Dr. Fischer. I was under arrest in the bunker at that time and I happened to be on the corridor. Q.So, you neither saw Dr. Gebhardt nor Dr. Oberheuser? A.At that time, in the bunker, I did not see those three people. Q... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 423,900 | 424,400 |
malignum, or gangrene, why shouldn't they have been infected with tetanus too, especially when Dr. Rosenthal talked about it? Q.So, from the fact that staphylocci, streptococci and gangreneproducing baccilli were used, you conclude from this fact that tetanus baccilli were used also? A.Yes. Q.But that is a conclusion? ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 424,350 | 424,850 |
bundle? A.No. Gerda Quernheim told me that. I say expressly. I described how it happened. Q.Yes. You spoke about muscle and bone operations. Can you say who was conducting these experiments and at what time they were conducted? A.The muscle operations, like all the others, were between August 1942 and March 1943. When ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 424,800 | 425,300 |
which the SS people took to the Danish border, and only from the Danish border on, were we taken over by the Danish Red Cross, and turned over to the Swedish Red Cross. QAnd the SS people brought you to the Danish frontier? AWe were taken to the Danish border by the SS. QDo you remember that a few days before the trans... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 425,250 | 425,750 |
opinion, ** anaerobe operations. Q.Six persons? A.Yes, six persons. Q.With anaerobes? A.With anaerobes. Q.And how about streptococci and others? A.I have just explained to you that the further total number of 74 was divided between streptococci and staphylococci and muscle operations. Q.I should like to know from you h... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 425,700 | 426,200 |
and in these cases and in such similar cases as may arise, the Prosecution intends to interrogate these men prior to the time that they are made available to defense counsel. The second point which we might attempt to clarify at this time is the issue of interpretation raised with respect to Document NumberNO-139which ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 426,150 | 426,650 |
under the circumstances I do not see that the Prosecution can concede the point although we do not regard it as of paramount importance. We therefore urge that the translation as submitted be accepted by the Tribunal. Of course, the translation itself is not in evidence, and defense counsel can urge now and when he pre... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 426,600 | 427,100 |
have it understood that the prosecution reserves the right to submit additional questions to the Witness Eyer when she arrives. THE PRESIDENT:That right will be reserved to the prosecution. MR. McHANEY:The affidavit reads as fellows: "I, the undersigned, EYER Olga, being duly sworn, depose and state: "1. I was born on ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 427,050 | 427,550 |
his experiments from the 'Reichsforschungsrat' in Berlin. I think I can remember that the correspondence was signed by Prof. Rostock. Prof Rostock was in constant touch with Haagen and they made numerous oral reports to each other. Haagen used to visit Rostock in Berlin. "9. Prof. Rose, Inspector of the 'Medical Servic... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 427,500 | 428,000 |
of the University of Strassbourg. THE PRESIDENT:Yes. MR. McHANEY:If counsel Nelte plans to retain the original of the Eyer affidavit for any length of time I will ask him to return it to the Secretary General, as it is now in his custody. THE PRESIDENT:Dr. Nelte stated he desired to examine the affidavit for a short ti... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 427,950 | 428,450 |
Prosecutor has himself stated that the witness, Roemhild, may probably already be heard here in the beginning of next week. It has been the usual procedure before the International Military Tribunal that an affidavit could not be read when the person in question appeared as a witness. Before the International Military ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 428,400 | 428,900 |
this time, Mr. McHaney? MR. McHANEY:Sir, I don't know. We received a telephone call late last evening stating that Mr. Rodell, an investigator of the Office of Chief of Counsel, was injured in an automobile accident near Heilbrunn and is himself now in the hospital. JUDGE SEBRING:Is he the Rodell who is supposed to hav... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 428,850 | 429,350 |
Secret. It carries in the left hand corner the initials RKPA which, as I understand it, is the Reichs Criminal Police. The date line is Weimar-Buchenwald, 4 March 1944. "List of the Protective Custody Prisoners, and habitual Criminals selected and released for the Experiments with the Danish Typhus Vaccine." THE PRESID... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 429,300 | 429,800 |
argument as to what the words mean. We submit that they do in fact include political prisoners, defense counsel to the contrary. THE PRESIDENT:This question will not be concluded by what has been said at this time but will be left open for further argument and investigation. Does the counsel desire to address the Tribu... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 429,750 | 430,250 |
course, have no proof that they are German citizens. For instance, Schubrowski, No. 20, being one. The document is signed "By order of Otto, Kriminalrat." I come now to an entirely different subject. That is, we are moving on from the typhus experiments........... THE PRESIDENT:At this time the Court will take its noon... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 430,200 | 430,700 |
I would suggest that the Tribunal simply mark the translations with the exhibit number and perhaps insert them at the end of the last document book, and they will then have the exhibits in the proper order. This is a teletype sent by SS Obergruppenfuehrer Koppe from Posen, 5 June 1943, to the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 430,650 | 431,150 |
an "H". MR. MCHANEY:That's correct, your Honor; we submit, however, that this is in fact the defendant Blome, whose name in fact is Blome. In other words, we suggest that this is a. mistake on the part of the sender of the message Koppe and I think that will probably appear to be obvious in subsequent documents. We tur... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 431,100 | 431,600 |
at a seasonable time. MR. MCHANEY:The document is submitted as Prosecution Exhibit 325. It is noted "Top Secret." "Official Note." It's dated 23 September 1943, signed by Kliewe. Early in September 1943 Military Science inquired what protective measures had been taken against the use of bacterial weapons; a report was ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 431,550 | 432,050 |
field of bacterial warfare must be established. Chief of the Armed Forces Medical Corps has been asked to inform the Chief of Armed Forces Matters in writing with regard to the sabotage activity with regard to the sabotage activity with bacteria and poisons discovered so far. Signed, Kliewe, 23 September 1943." The sec... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 432,000 | 432,500 |
with strong winds will be tested. "The Japanese beetle will arrive from Japan in about four weeks; then the attempts at cultivation experiments will begin. A wheat parasite is to be imported from Rumania and Turkey, to be used for experiments in cultivation experiments. Experiments are also being planned with the antle... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 432,450 | 432,950 |
not know that the Chief of the Medical Corps and the Inspector of Army Medical Service have repeatedly issued precautionary measures for the units. He asked for copies of these. "Prof. Blome rightly rejects the Association "Blitzarbeiter" because it works too slowly and because the circle of participants is too large: ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 432,900 | 433,400 |
an SS man, Karl Brandt, has assured Blome of first support. I would suppose that there were a number of reasons why Professor Karl Brandt was sought for support in this matter. First, he was at this time the Reichs Commissioner for Health and Medical matters. He had also, I think, by this time received his commission f... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 433,350 | 433,850 |
to have themselves poisoned so they could determine the effect of maximum doses, as they put it. In connection with this problem, we also see the name of Karl Brandt mentioned in association with no less a person than Reichs Marshal Goering. I move on to the second page of this Document, which is another memorandum thi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 433,800 | 434,300 |
and Military Science must previously submit interim reports to the Association. These interim reports have not been submitted to date; it is hereby ordered that they be submitted to the Association without delay, during the week after Whitsunside at the latest. In the future the semi-annual dates will be 10 April and 1... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 434,250 | 434,750 |
Again, I am not sure, and rather think, that the defense counsel has not received the German copy of this and consequently it is offered subject to objection taken by the Defense counsel. THE PRESIDENT:The document Trill bo received under the same objection as the last. MR. McHANEY:Has the Tribunal received a copy of t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 434,700 | 435,200 |
for a campaign of bacteriological warfare; Soviet prisoners of war were used in these medical experiments, which more often than not proved fatal." If the Tribunal please, the Prosecution has not supplied a German copy of this excerpt to the Defense Counsel, and I take it that it is not necessary nor required by the ru... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 435,150 | 435,650 |
be called a compilation of rocords of the most various sorts, but one cannot say that this is an official report of an Investigating Commission for War Crimes for the United Nations. I, therefore, request that this document not be admitted in evidence. MR. McHANEY:In order not to confuse the argument, I would like to i... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 435,600 | 436,100 |
to the Prosecution's argument: Article 9 cf Ordinance No. 7 speaks of reports of investigating commissions for the United Nations for War Crimes, according to the interpretation of that, I understand it to mean reports and net just the reproduction of police investigation records or of letters or similar document. A re... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 436,050 | 436,550 |
time the certificate of General Taylor is furnished to the Tribunal with respect to the right of Walter Rapp to administer an oath. The affidavit reads as follows: "I, Rudolf Brandt, being duly sworn, depost and state: "1. I have heretofore given affidavits concerning low-pressure, freezing, seawater, spotted fever, st... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 436,500 | 437,000 |
Grawitz' office, as well as Sievers, were as familiar with these experiments as I was by virtue of the orders I received. Kurt Blome, in his capacity of deputy to Conti must have been as well informed as Conti himself. High-ranking representatives of the Luftwaffe, the Army, and the Navy Were also involved in this affa... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 436,950 | 437,450 |
the difficulties which exist in order to bring these witnesses here until the end of this ti e limit which will be the 27th. However, on the other hand, I request that the following be considered: If I am supposed to develop the theory of my defense, that is, if I am to state in brief words what I want to prove in orde... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 437,400 | 437,900 |
their defense will be. It will naturally take us a little time to prepare our cross examination, our documents and rebuttal which will go in while the defense is presenting it's case, so it may be this would work an imposition or hardship on the prosecution as to it's course or procedure. However, unless the Tribunal w... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 437,850 | 438,350 |
of a recess will again be considered by the Tribunal. As to the opening statements by the defendants, at the present time the Tribunal is of the opinion that when the defense opens its cases, each defense counsel should make some statements concerning his defense, and what he expects to prove. That would not limit him ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 438,300 | 438,800 |
his defense will not be definitely closed, but that if a witness is not then available, but will be available later, the Tribunal would still hold his case open until he may present his witness. DR. PECKMANN:But then it will happen, Mr. President, that the opening statement of each defense counsel will be very, very br... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 438,750 | 439,250 |
Tribunal it must be made to appear to the Tribunal that each defense counsel, in what he is doing, is acting in entire good faith with the Tribunal. When that appears, the Tribunal will endeavor to accord each defense counsel and each defendant every reasonable opportunity that it appears he should have. MR. McHANEY:On... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 439,200 | 439,700 |
what the witness may know or may not know. I do not need to waste any words about the subject of the telephone, because with a telephone I will be unable to contact distant places, and if I have succeeded in getting the right connection, then I will be interrupted after maybe five or ten minutes. The only thing that is... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 439,650 | 440,150 |
is very evident from the names and the positions occupied by tin witnesses that they would communicate what evidence they would or would not give. The Tribunal does not intend to demand the impossible or in any way to be even unreasonable in view of all the circumstances. But at the same time it is necessary that the t... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 440,100 | 440,600 |
few countries have outhanasia laws. It goes without saying, however, that any such law would have to be carried out under proper safeguards. The Prosecution does take the position that the German Reich never enacted a euthanasia law or to put it more broadly, one euthanasia law was ever promulgated in any form. German ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 440,550 | 441,050 |
of the official English transcript. These so excerpts have been included in the first euthanasia document book which is now excerpt the Tribunal. They are on page 1 and 2. The first excerpt which is the one appearing on pages 16,916 and 16,917 of the official English transcript is on page one of the English Document Bo... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 441,000 | 441,500 |
to state at the very beginning that it is not a letter. A letter is addressed to an addressee, but I claim it is a decree. It was compiled with the assistance of Karl Brandt. I only want to state here that this is not a letter, but that it is a decree. I would like to emphasize this at the very beginning. MR. McHANEY:I... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 441,450 | 441,950 |
of five or six of his interrogations. At that time Brack had protested against the contents and the formulation of the affidavit because of using inappropriate German words, which had become completely incorrect. It was so admitted by Brack to one of the interrogating officials that the text of the affidavit was not co... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 441,900 | 442,400 |
following document books on Euthanasia. I now offer into evidence DocumentNO-253. THE TRIBUNAL:Just a moment, counsel. Regarding the remarks made by Dr. Servatius; of course, the description by the Prosecution of this document or letter is not binding. The document speaks for itself subject at all it had been incorrect... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 442,350 | 442,850 |
now want to offer into evidence the chart, which is going offered as sinned by the defendant Viktor Brack. This affidavit is true, and it contains same description material which we will read into the record, but the affidavit itself has long since been admitted, and is Prosecution's Exhibit No. 34, Document No-320. TH... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 442,800 | 443,300 |
court. THE PRESIDENT:The Secretary-General will note for the record the presence of all the defendants in the court. DR. SERVATIUS:Mr. President, you asked how the defense are going to conduct their defense. We arrived at an agreement that we are going to do that as the defendants are sitting in the defendants' docket ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 443,250 | 443,750 |
been admitted as Prosecution Exhibit 160. The only document now before the Tribunal for a ruling is the chart. As to that, I can see no grounds for objection. The chart was drawn by the Defendant Viktor Brack or at least under his direction, and is signed and sworn to by the Defendant Viktor Brack, and consequently we ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 443,700 | 444,200 |
correct that before signing this chart he objected against it immediately and declared that the name of Blome does not belong in that chart since according to his knowledge Blome had nothing whatever to do with Euthanasia. That, gentlemen of the Tribunal, is not an objection to the admissibility of the chart but merely... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 444,150 | 444,650 |
Dr. Brandt and Dr. Leonardo Conti, the Reich Chief for Public Health and Secretary of State in the Ministry of Interior. On the basis of this order of Hitler, Bouhler and Brandt were to select doctors to carry out this program. Inasmuch as the insane asylums and other institutions were functions of the Ministry of Inte... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 444,600 | 445,100 |
office of Doctor Brandt. The Program was so arranged that photostats of each questionnaire were to be sent to four experts to determine the status of each patient. The panel of experts consisted of about 10 to 15 doctors. I do not remember the names of all the members of this panel but Doctor Pfannmueller, Doctor Schum... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 445,050 | 445,550 |
Hitler's ultimate reason for the establishment of the Euthanasia Program in Germany was to eliminate those people confined to insane asylums and similar institutions who could no longer be of any use to the Reich. They were considered useless eaters and Hitler felt that by exterminating these so-called useless eaters, ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 445,500 | 446,000 |
would have been impossible for these men to participate in such things without the personal knowledge and consent of Karl Brandt. The order to send these men to the East could have been given only by Himmler to Brandt, possibly through Bouhler." I think that is a sufficient reading of the pertinent sections of the affi... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 445,950 | 446,450 |
asylums all over Germany, and had them filled out and forwarded to Brandt in the Administrative Offices, shown in the lower left center of the chart by dotted lines connecting the two offices. Together with Brandt and Bouhler, Linden, also directed the organization for the killing of deficient children. The set up, of ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 446,400 | 446,900 |
my parents' house in Russia. In 1920 I moved to Duisburg on the Rhine, where I studied nursing. I was trained for my job till 1923, and on 4 January 1940 I was hired by the Ministry of the Interior in Berlin. For 15 years I worked for the Magistrate of Berlin as municipal nurse. In April 1937 I joined the NSDAP. I was ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 446,850 | 447,350 |
of an accompanying nurse. "6. After their arrival at Grafeneck the patients were housed in barracks, where Dr. Schumann and Dr. Baumhardt examined them superficially on the basis of a questionnaire. These two doctors had to pronounce the final decision as to whether a patient was to be gassed or not. In individual case... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 447,300 | 447,800 |
are here again concerned with an affidavit which was not sworn correctly; and I ask you again that this document only be admitted under the usual reservation. THE PRESIDENT:This document will be admitted provisionally, pending the filing of a certificate showing proper authority on the part of the person who administer... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 447,750 | 448,250 |
apparently on permanent duty in this ward, assisted him. While he then showed the child around like a dead hare, grinning cynically, he stated with the air of an expert something like: 'It will take this one, for example, still two or three days.' I shall never be able to forget the sight of that fat, grinning man, hol... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 448,200 | 448,700 |
will make every effort, sir, to provide such an affidavit. I turn now to Document NumberNO-1135, which will be Prosecution Exhibit 334. The first page of the document is a confirmation "In accordance with the decision of the State Ministry of the Interior (Public Health Division) of 8 January 1940 I have, upon order of... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 448,650 | 449,150 |
No. 3 of the women's list, Goldmann Rebekka Sarah, from Poland, and No. 13 of the men's list the name of Bunsel Rudolf Israel from Bohemia and Moravia was crossed out. As this document shows the 16 male and 19 female Jews were transferred on the 20th of September, 1940. Page 18 is the 8th transport list, carried out on... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 449,100 | 449,600 |
document is transport List No. 8, carried out on 2 December, 1940, listing 16 persons, and page 35 is another confirmation, dated 17 January, 1941, and is again signed by the Commissioner of General Transport Company, m. b. H, this time by E. Kuepper. Pages 36 to 38 is the 15th Transport List, No. 8, carried out on 17 ... | Harvard: Medical Case (Karl Brandt et al.) | 449,550 | 450,050 |
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