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
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Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946; War crime trials -- Germany -- Nuremberg
“The experimental subjects were mostly in their twenties and thirties.
Care was taken when selecting them that they did not come from typhus
districts and also to ensure an interval of four to six weeks between
the protective vaccination and the outbreak of the clinical symptoms of
the disease. According to experience this period is imperative to
achieve immunity.”
The effects of the four vaccines tested were described as follows. The
report on the Weigl vaccine states that “nobody died”. The report on the
Gildemeister and Haagen vaccine also states that no deaths occurred. The
report on the Behring-Normal vaccine states that one person died. The
experiment with the Behring-Strong vaccine reports one death.
The last paragraph of the report states: “In the last two groups the
symptoms were considerably stronger than in the first groups * * *. No
difference between the two vaccines of the Behring Works was observed.
The attending physicians stated that the general picture of the disease
in group four was rather more severe compared with that of the patients
of group three.”
In a summation, Mrugowsky recommended the use of a vaccine “produced
according to the chicken egg process, which, in its immunization effect,
is equal to the vaccine after Weigl.”
“The effectiveness of protection depends on the method used in making
the vaccine.”
Of course, experiments with vaccines, conducted because of the urgent
need for the discovery of a protective vaccine, would lead to scant
results unless the subjects vaccinated were subsequently in some manner
effectively exposed to typhus, thereby demonstrating the effectiveness
or noneffectiveness of the vaccination. While Mrugowsky’s report, above
referred to, makes no reference to an artificial infection, it does
state without further explanation that two deaths occurred, and in the
last paragraph, quoted above, compares the severity of “the diseased”
between groups three and four.
On cross-examination Mrugowsky testified that Dr. Ding was to lecture at
a meeting of consulting surgeons in the spring of 1943, and that the
witness informed Genzken concerning “the intended amount of vaccines to
be produced by the SS.” Mrugowsky testified that he gave Genzken this
information for three reasons: first, that Genzken had to be advised of
the fact that Ding, as a member of the Waffen SS, was to give a lecture
to the surgeons; second, that Genzken should be informed concerning “the
effectiveness of a number of vaccines to be used for troops”; third,
that Genzken should know when he could expect the first production of
vaccines for the SS and the amounts he could count on for each month.
Mrugowsky further testified:
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