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
The responsibility among the defendants for the freezing experiments is
substantially the same as for the high-altitude tests. The results were,
if anything, ever more widely known in German medical circles. In
October 1942, a medical conference took place here in Nuernberg at the
Deutscher Hof Hotel, at which one of the authors of the report from
which I have just quoted spoke on the subject “Prevention and Treatment
of Freezing”, and the defendant Weltz spoke on the subject “Warming up
after Freezing to the Danger Point.” Numerous documents which we will
introduce show the widespread responsibility among the defendants, and
in the highest quarters of the German Air Force, for these sickening
crimes.
C. Malaria Experiments
Another series of experiments carried out at the Dachau concentration
camp concerned immunization for and treatment of malaria. Over 1,200
inmates of practically every nationality were experimented upon. Many
persons who participated in these experiments have already been tried
before a general military court held at Dachau, and the findings of that
court will be laid before this Tribunal. The malaria experiments were
carried out under the general supervision of a Dr. Schilling, with whom
the defendant Sievers and others in the box collaborated. The evidence
will show that healthy persons were infected by mosquitoes or by
injections from the glands of mosquitoes. Catholic priests were among
the subjects. The defendant Gebhardt kept Himmler informed of the
progress of these experiments. Rose furnished Schilling with fly eggs
for them, and others of the defendants participated in various ways
which the evidence will demonstrate.
After the victims had been infected, they were variously treated with
quinine, neosalvarsan, pyramidon, antipyrin, and several combinations of
these drugs. Many deaths occurred from excessive doses of neosalvarsan
and pyramidon. According to the findings of the Dachau court, malaria
was the direct cause of 30 deaths and 300 to 400 others died as the
result of subsequent complications.
D. Mustard Gas Experiments
The experiments concerning mustard gas were conducted at Sachsenhausen,
Natzweiler, and other concentration camps and extended over the entire
period of the war. Wounds were deliberately inflicted on the victims,
and the wounds were then infected with mustard gas. Other subjects were
forced to inhale the gas, or to take it internally in liquid form, and
still others were injected with the gas. A report on these experiments
written at the end of 1939 described certain cases in which wounds were
inflicted on both arms of the human guinea pigs and then infected, and
the report states: “The arms in most of the cases are badly swollen and
pains are enormous.”
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