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Aug 11, 2022
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Position

Chief Surgeon of the Surgical Clinic in Berlin; Surgical Adviser to the Army; and Chief of the Office for Medical Science and Research under co-defendant Karl Brandt, Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation.

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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: 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: 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)

  • Malaria experiments (December 13th)

  • Seawater experiments (December 16th)

  • 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 20th)

  • Witnesses:

    1. Paul Rostock (February 20th — February 24th)

    2. Heinz Christensen (February 24th)

    3. Maria Karlsletter (February 25th)

  • Defense counsel’s closing statement (July 15th)

  • Defendant’s personal statement (July 19th)

  • Verdict (August 19th)

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