Therefore, I commission the Reich Marshal Hermann Goering to establish as an independent entity a Reich Research Council, which is to serve this purpose, to take over its chairmanship himself and to give it a charter. Leading men of science above all are to make research fruitful for warfare by working together in their special fields. The hitherto existing Reich Research Council which was under the Reich Minister for Science and Education [Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung] is to be absorbed by the new organization. The means needed for research purposes are to be established in the Reich budget as far as they will not be raised from contributions (for research) of circles interested in research. Fuehrer Headquarters, 9 June 1942 The Fuehrer ADOLF HITLER The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery DR. LAMMERS TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-645 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 3 [Illustration: Table of Organization of the Reich Commissioner for Health and Medical Service, drawn by the defendant Karl Brandt] ----- [15] To Wehrmacht in this connection belong: Army, Navy, Luftwaffe, the Waffen SS units under orders of the Wehrmacht and the organizations and services engaged within the framework of the Wehrmacht. [Footnote in original document.] [16] Same as Footnote 15 above. [17] As to the Navy these rules will not apply or will apply with restrictions only to personnel _on board_. [Footnote in original document.] VII. EXTRACTS FROM ARGUMENTATION AND EVIDENCE OF PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE A. Medical Experiments 1. HIGH-ALTITUDE EXPERIMENTS a. Introduction The defendants Karl Brandt, Handloser, Schroeder, Gebhardt, Rudolf Brandt, Mrugowsky, Poppendick, Sievers, Ruff, Romberg, Becker-Freyseng, and Weltz were charged with special responsibility for and participation in criminal conduct involving high-altitude experiments (par. 6 (_A_) of the indictment). During the course of the trial, the prosecution withdrew this charge in the cases of Karl Brandt, Handloser, Poppendick, and Mrugowsky. Only the defendants Rudolf Brandt and Sievers were convicted on this charge. The prosecution’s summation of the evidence on the high-altitude experiments is contained in its closing brief against the defendants Ruff, Romberg, and Weltz. An extract from this brief is set forth below on pages 92 to 113. A corresponding summation of the evidence by the defense on these experiments has been selected from the closing briefs for the defendants Ruff and Sievers. It appears below on pages 114 to 140. This argumentation is followed by selections from the evidence on pages 140 to 198.