_Defendants_ _Defense Counsel_ _Associate Defense Counsel_ BRANDT, KARL DR. ROBERT SERVATIUS DR. RUDOLF SCHMIDT HANDLOSER, SIEGFRIED DR. OTTO NELTE ROSTOCK, PAUL DR. HANS PRIBILLA SCHROEDER, OSKAR DR. HANNS MARX DR. WALTER DEHNER GENZKEN, KARL DR. RUDOLF MERKEL DR. ALFRED BRENNER GEHARDT, KARL DR. ALFRED SEIDL DR. GEORG GIERL BLOME, KURT DR. FRITZ SAUTER BRANDT, RUDOLF DR. KURT KAUFFMANN MRUGOWSKY, JOACHIM DR. FRITZ FLEMMING POPPENDICK, HELMUT DR. GEORG BOEHM DR. HELMUT DUERR SIEVERS, WOLFRAM DR. JOSEF WEISGERBER DR. ERICH BERGLER ROSE, GERHARD DR. HANS FRITZ RUFF, SIEGFRIED DR. FRITZ SAUTER ROMBERG, HANS WOLFGANG DR. BERND VORWERK BRACK, VIKTOR DR. GEORG FROESCHMANN BECKER-FREYSENG, HERMANN DR. HANNS MARX DR. WALTER DEHNER WELTZ, GEORG AUGUST DR. SIEGFRIED WILLE SCHAEFER, KONRAD DR. HORST PELCKMANN HOVEN, WALDEMAR DR. HANS GAWLIK DR. GERHARD KLINNERT BEIGLBOECK, WILHELM DR. GUSTAV STEINBAUER POKORNY, ADOLF DR. KARL HOFFMANN DR. HANS-GUNTHER SERAPHIM OBERHEUSER, HERTA DR. ALFRED SEIDL DR. GEORG GIERL FISCHER, FRITZ DR. ALFRED SEIDL DR. GEORG GIERL I. INDICTMENT The United States of America, by the undersigned Telford Taylor, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, duly appointed to represent said Government in the prosecution of war criminals, charges that the defendants herein participated in a common design or conspiracy to commit and did commit war crimes and crimes against humanity, as defined in Control Council Law No. 10, duly enacted by the Allied Control Council on 20 December 1945. These crimes included murders, brutalities, cruelties, tortures, atrocities, and other inhumane acts, as set forth in counts one, two, and three of this indictment. Certain defendants are further charged with membership in a criminal organization, as set forth in count four of this indictment. The persons accused as guilty of these crimes and accordingly named as defendants in this case are— KARL BRANDT—Personal physician to Adolf Hitler; Gruppenfuehrer in the SS and Generalleutnant (Major General) in the Waffen SS; Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation (Reichskommissar fuer Sanitaets- und Gesundheitswesen); and member of the Reich Research Council (Reichsforschungsrat). SIEGFRIED HANDLOSER—Generaloberstabsarzt (Lieutenant General, Medical Service); Medical Inspector of the Army (Heeressanitaetsinspekteur); and Chief of the Medical Services of the Armed Forces (Chef des Wehrmachtsanitaetswesens).