Helmut Poppendick — Doctors' Trial Index
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Position
Oberführer (Senior Colonel) in the SS; and Chief of the Personal Staff of the Reich Physician SS and Police. Former chief of staff at the SS Office for Population Politics and Genetic Health Care (renamed in 1937 to the SS Main Race and Settlement Office).
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Indictment
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.
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.
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.
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 (April 8th)
Witnesses:
Defense counsel’s closing statement (July 17th)
Defendant’s personal statement (July 19th)
Verdict (August 19th)
Sentenced (August 20th)