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
In the fall of 1942 Rose was present at the “Cold Conference” held at
Nuernberg and heard Holzloehner deliver his lecture on the freezing
experiments which had taken place at Dachau. Rose testified that after
the conference he talked with Holzloehner, who told him that the
carrying out of physiological experiments on human beings imposed upon
him a tremendous mental burden, adding that he hoped he never would
receive another order to conduct such experiments.
It is impossible to believe that during the years 1942 and 1943 Rose was
unaware of malaria experiments on human beings which were progressing at
Dachau under Schilling, or to credit Rose with innocence of knowledge
that the malaria research was not confined solely to vaccinations
designed for the purpose of immunizing the persons vaccinated. On the
contrary, it is clear that Rose well knew that human beings were being
used in the concentration camp as subjects for medical experimentation.
However, no adjudication either of guilt or innocence will be entered
against Rose for criminal participation in these experiments for the
following reason: In preparing counts two and three of its indictment
the prosecution elected to frame its pleading in such a manner as to
charge all defendants with the commission of war crimes and crimes
against humanity, generally, and at the same time to name in each
sub-paragraph dealing with medical experiments only those defendants
particularly charged with responsibility for each particular item.
In our view this constituted, in effect, a bill of particulars and was,
in essence, a declaration to the defendants upon which they were
entitled to rely in preparing their defenses, that only such persons as
were actually named in the designated experiments would be called upon
to defend against the specific items. Included in the list of names of
those defendants specifically charged with responsibility for the
malaria experiments the name of Rose does not appear. We think it would
be manifestly unfair to the defendant to find him guilty of an offense
with which the indictment affirmatively indicated he was not charged.
This does not mean that the evidence adduced by the prosecution was
inadmissible against the charges actually preferred against Rose. We
think it had probative value as proof of the fact of Rose’s knowledge of
human experimentation upon concentration camp inmates.
TYPHUS EXPERIMENTS
These experiments were carried out at Buchenwald and Natzweiler
concentration camps, over a period extending from 1942 to 1945, in an
attempt to procure a protective typhus vaccine.
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