Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume IIVarious
Philosophy
Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume II
Various
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946; War crime trials -- Germany -- Nuremberg
Q. May I ask you what fields within aviation medicine you have worked on
specifically, because my clients, who are recognized specialists in this
field, attach importance to ascertaining precisely what fields you have
worked in particularly?
A. I have worked particularly in the field of decompression or pressure
drop sickness, and I have also worked in the field of anoxia or exposure
to altitude repeatedly at a level of 18,000 feet to ascertain if that
has any effect in the causation of pilots’ fatigue.
Q. At what time did you specifically concern yourself with the fields
you have just named? Was that before the Second World War, during the
Second World War, or was it earlier than that?
A. My interest in these fields of aviation medicine, including free fall
which I did not mention, started in 1939.
Q. Regarding your specific work in this field, Witness, you have also
issued publications. I believe you spoke of two publications. Did I
understand you correctly, or were there more?
A. There were two in the field of decompression sickness. There was one
publication in the field of the effects of repeated exposure to a mild
degree of oxygen lack. My other work has not yet been published but was
submitted in the form of reports to the Committee on Aviation Medicine
of the National Research Council of the United States.
Q. When were these two papers published of which you just told us; when,
and were they printed by a publishing house? Did they appear in a
journal or a periodical?
A. One appears in the Journal of Aviation Medicine either in September
or October of 1946. The other appears in the Journal of the American
Medical Association in either December or January 1946 or 1947. The
publication on the effect of repeated exposure to mild degrees of oxygen
lack at altitude appears in the quarterly bulletin of Northwestern
University Medical School and part of the work, insofar as its effect on
the elimination of the basis in the urine is concerned, appeared in the
Journal of Biological Chemistry around 1944 or 1945, I am not sure of
that date.
Q. Theretofore, Witness, you had thus made no publication in the field
of aviation medicine before the papers of which you just gave the dates
of publication?
A. The question is not clear.
Q. You just gave us the titles of the publications you have published
and when; now I ask whether before the dates you just gave, you did not
have any publications in the field of aviation medicine?
A. No. My first research started in 1939.
Q. You, yourself, have carried out experiments too; is that not so?
A. Yes.
Q. With human experimental subjects, of course?
A. Yes, and on myself.
Q. And with a low pressure chamber?
A. Yes.
Q. Were these frequent experiments, or were the experiments in which
you, yourself, took part only infrequent in number?
A. The experiments in which I took part were infrequent in number
compared to the total number of experiments which I performed.
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