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Aug 10, 2022
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Index > Siegfried Handloser

Position

Generaloberstabsarzt (Lieutenant General, Medical Service); Medical Inspector of the Army; and Chief of the Medical Services of the Armed Forces.

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Indictment

  1. Conspiracy to commit war crimes against humanity: The ordering, planning, and organization of the war crimes and crimes against humanity charged in counts two and three.

  2. War crimes: High-altitude experiments; Freezing experiments; Malaria experiments; Mustard (“lost”) gas experiments; Sulfanilamide experiments; Bone, muscle, and nerve regeneration, and bone transplant experiments; Seawater experiments; Epidemic jaundice experiments; and Typhus ("spotted fever") and other vaccine experiments.

  3. Crimes against humanity: High-altitude experiments; Freezing experiments; Malaria experiments; Mustard (“lost”) gas experiments; Sulfanilamide experiments; Bone, muscle, and nerve regeneration, and bone transplant experiments; Seawater experiments; Epidemic jaundice experiments; and Typhus ("spotted fever") and other vaccine experiments.

Prosecution’s Case

  • Opening Statement (December 9th, 1946)

  • High-altitude experiments at Dachau (December 10th — December 11th)

  • Freezing experiments (December 11th)

  • Malaria experiments (December 13th)

  • Epidemic jaundice experiments (December 19th)

  • Sulfanilamide and bone/muscle experiments (December 19th — December 21st)

  • Mustard (“lost”) gas experiments (January 2nd, 1947)

  • Typhus (“spotted fever”) and other vaccine experiments (January 3rd — January 10th)

  • Prosecution’s closing statement (July 14th)

Defense’s Case

  • Entered pleas of Not Guilty (December 9th, 1946)

  • Opening statement (January 29th, 1947)

  • Defense case begins (February 11th)

  • Witnesses:

    1. Siegfried Handloser (February 11th — February 18th)

    2. Paul Wuerfler (February 18th — February 19th)

    3. Bernhard Schmidt (February 19th)

    4. Hans Hartlenben (February 19th)

  • Defense counsel’s closing statement (July 14th)

  • Defendant’s personal statement (July 19th)

  • Verdict (August 19th)

  • Sentenced (August 20th)

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