Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume IVarious
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Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume I
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Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946; War crime trials -- Germany -- Nuremberg
Immediately after Weltz had completed his negotiations with Ruff, he
called a meeting at his institute in Munich, wherein discussions of a
technical nature concerning the experiments were held. At this meeting,
Ruff, Romberg, Rascher, and Weltz were in attendance. This meeting was
at Weltz’ Institute and Weltz presided over the meeting. It was further
decided that a second meeting was to be held at Dachau a few days later
in order to make the necessary arrangements with the camp commander.
This trip took place in order to discuss technical preparations with the
camp commander, and to arrange details concerning the selection of the
experimental subjects. Again, Weltz, Ruff, Romberg, and Rascher were in
attendance, in addition to Piorkowski, the camp commander, and
Schnitzler of the staff of the Reichsfuehrung SS. (_NO-476, Pros. Ex.
40_; _NO-437, Pros. Ex. 42_; _NO-263, Pros. Ex. 47_; _Tr. pp. 7086-7_.)
After the arrangements with the camp authorities at Dachau had been
completed, the shipment of the low-pressure chamber from Berlin was the
next problem to overcome. As pointed out earlier, Weltz desired the
low-pressure chamber which was possessed by Ruff and Romberg for use in
the experiments at Dachau. It is interesting to note that Weltz had had
a low-pressure chamber available in his own institute from 1938 on (_Tr.
p. 7178._), and that Weltz testified that volunteers from his student
body or from the Luftwaffe were available. (_Tr. pp. 7180-83._) Despite
this, it was necessary to resort to the concentration camp for inmates
and, in order to conduct the experiments, a mobile pressure chamber had
to be brought down from the Ruff Institute in Berlin, as the
low-pressure chamber in the Weltz Institute was not mobile. The mobile
low-pressure chamber from Ruff’s Institute at Berlin was driven to
Weltz’ Institute in Munich and arrived in the late afternoon. This
chamber was driven to Munich by employees of the DVL and turned over to
Weltz. On the following day, SS drivers came from Dachau, received the
keys to the chamber and drove it to the concentration camp. (_Tr. p.
7199._) The purpose in camouflaging this activity was to deceive the
employees of the DVL because Weltz and Ruff did not want them to know
that the low-pressure chamber was to be used in an experimental program
at a concentration camp. This is borne out by the fact that a completely
new set of drivers came from the concentration camp to take the chamber
to Dachau. This particular action of secrecy is noticeable when it is
considered that Dachau is merely 12 kilometers from Munich and actually
the DVL drivers had to go out of their way to deliver the chamber to the
Weltz Institute. Ruff testified that the secrecy in the transfer of the
chamber to Dachau was for security reasons. (_Tr. p. 6550._)
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