Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume IIVarious
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Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume II
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Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946; War crime trials -- Germany -- Nuremberg
Ding reported on his activities at the meeting of the Consulting
Surgeons of the Wehrmacht held in May 1943 in Berlin. Handloser was
present at that meeting but may not have heard the report, the report
having been made to the hygiene section, which was presided over by
Schreiber, Handloser’s subordinate. Defendant Rose, having heard the
report, openly objected to the character of the experiments carried out
at Buchenwald. Schreiber, then, had full knowledge of the nature of the
experiments there carried on. Rose’s vigorous objection was doubtless a
subject of general interest.
Handloser testified that on at least two occasions he discussed with
Mrugowsky matters connected with vaccines against typhoid, typhus and
other diseases. He stated that he was unable to fix the dates of these
conferences.
The entries in the Ding diary clearly indicate an effective liaison
between the Army Medical Inspectorate and the experiments which Ding was
conducting at Buchenwald. There is also credible evidence that the
Inspectorate was informed of medical research carried on by the
Luftwaffe. The experiments at Buchenwald continued after Handloser had
gained actual knowledge of the fact that concentration camp inmates had
been killed at Dachau as the result of freezing; and that inmates at
Ravensbrueck had died as victims of the sulfanilamide experiments
conducted by Gebhardt and Fischer. Yet with this knowledge Handloser in
his superior medical position made no effort to investigate the
situation of the human subjects or to exercise any proper degree of
control over those conducting experiments within his field of authority
and competence.
Had the slightest inquiry been made the facts would have revealed that
in vaccine experiments already conducted at Buchenwald, deaths had
occurred—both as a result of artificial infections by the lice which
had been imported from the Typhus and Virus Institute of the OKH at
Cracow [Krakow] or Lemberg [Lvov], or from infections by a virulent
virus given to subjects after they had first been vaccinated with either
the Weigl, Cox-Haagen-Gildemeister, or other vaccines, whose efficacy
was being tested. Had this step been taken, and had Handloser exercised
his authority, later deaths would have been prevented in these
particular experiments which were originally set in motion through the
offices of the Medical Inspectorate and which were being conducted for
the benefit of the German armed forces.
These deaths not only occurred with German nationals, but also among
non-German nationals who had not consented to becoming experimental
subjects.
OTHER EXPERIMENTS
The defendant Handloser is also charged with special responsibility for,
and participation in, Malaria, Lost Gas, Bone, Muscle and Nerve
Regeneration and Bone Transplantation, Sea-Water, and Epidemic Jaundice
Experiments. In our view the evidence is insufficient to show any
criminal connection of the defendant Handloser with regard to these
experiments.
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