Gerhard Rose — Doctors' Trial Index

Index > Gerhard Rose

Position

Generalarzt of the Luftwaffe; Vice President, Chief of the Department for Tropical Medicine, and Professor of the Robert Koch Institute; and Hygienic Adviser for Tropical Medicine to the Chief of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe.

Mugshot

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: Epidemic jaundice experiments; and Typhus (“spotted fever”) and other vaccine experiments.

3. Crimes against humanity: Epidemic jaundice experiments; and Typhus (“spotted fever”) and other vaccine experiments.

Prosecution’s Case

• Opening Statement (December 9th, 1946)

• Epidemic jaundice experiments (December 19th)

• Typhus (“spotted fever”) and other vaccine experiments (January 3rd, 1947 — January 10th)

• Rebuttal evidence (July 2nd — July 3rd)

• 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 16th)

• Witnesses:

  1. Marie L. Block (April 16th — April 17th)

  2. Felix Hoering (April 17th)

  3. Gerhard Rose (April 18th — April 25th)

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

• Defendant’s personal statement (July 19th)

• Verdict (August 19th)

• Sentenced (August 20th)