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
“During the first hour of the experiment the pupils did not show
any changes. After 78 minutes the pupils of all three showed a
medium dilation, together with a retarded light reaction.
Simultaneously, maximum respiration with heavy breathing
inhalations set in. This subsided after a few minutes. The
pupils contracted again and their reaction improved. After 65
minutes the patellar and achilles tendon reflexes of the
poisoned subjects were negative. The abdominal reflexes of two
of them were also negative. After approximately 90 minutes, one
of the subjects again started breathing heavily; this was
accompanied by an increasing motor unrest. Then the heavy
breathing changed into a flat, accelerated respiration,
accompanied by extreme nausea. One of the poisoned persons tried
in vain to vomit. To do so he introduced four fingers of his
hand up to the knuckles into his throat, but nevertheless could
not vomit. His face was flushed.
“The other two experimental subjects had already early shown a
pale face. The other symptoms were the same. The motor unrest
increased so much that the persons flung themselves up and then
down, rolled their eyes and made meaningless motions with their
hands and arms. Finally the agitation subsided, the pupils
dilated to the maximum, and the condemned lay motionless. * * *
Death occurred 121, 123, and 129 minutes after entry of the
projectile.”
L. Incendiary Bomb Experiments
These experiments were likewise carried out at Buchenwald, and the Ding
diary gives us the facts. In November 1943 five persons were
deliberately burned with phosphorous material taken from an English
incendiary bomb. The victims were permanently and seriously injured.
M. Jewish Skeleton Collection
I come now to charges stated in paragraphs 7 and 11 of the indictment.
These are perhaps the most utterly repulsive charges in the entire
indictment. They concern the defendants Rudolf Brandt and Sievers.
Sievers and his associates in the Ahnenerbe Society were completely
obsessed by all the vicious and malignant Nazi racial theories. They
conceived the notion of applying these nauseous theories in the field of
anthropology. What ensued was murderous folly.
In February 1942, Sievers submitted to Himmler, through Rudolf Brandt, a
report from which the following is an extract (_NO-085_):
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