Paul Rostock — Doctors' Trial Index

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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)