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Aug 10, 2022
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Position

Oberführer (Senior Colonel) in the Waffen-SS; Chief Hygienist of the Reich Physician SS and Police; and Chief of the Hygienic Institute of the Waffen-SS.

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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; Sulfanilamide experiments; Seawater experiments; Epidemic jaundice experiments; Typhus ("spotted fever") and other vaccine experiments; Poison experiments; Incendiary bomb experiments; and Sterilization experiments.

  3. Crimes against humanity: High-altitude experiments; Freezing experiments; Malaria experiments; Sulfanilamide experiments; Seawater experiments; Epidemic jaundice experiments; Typhus ("spotted fever") and other vaccine experiments; Poison experiments; Incendiary bomb experiments; and Sterilization experiments.

  4. Membership in a criminal organization: Membership in the SS.

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)

  • Seawater experiments (December 16th)

  • Sterilization experiments (December 16th)

  • Epidemic jaundice experiments (December 19th)

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

  • 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 30th, 1947)

  • Defense case begins (March 26th)

  • Witnesses:

    1. Joachim Mrugowsky (March 26th — March 31st)

    2. Videslaw Horn (March 31st — April 1st)

    3. Joachim Mrugowsky (April 1st — April 3rd)

  • Defense counsel’s closing statement (July 17th)

  • Defendant’s personal statement (July 19th)

  • Verdict (August 19th)

  • Sentenced (August 20th)

  • Appeals:

    1. Denied by the Military Governor of the US Zone (November 22nd)

    2. Denied by the United States Supreme Court (February 16th, 1948)

  • Executed (June 2nd)

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