Siegfried Ruff — Doctors' Trial Index

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Position

Director of the Department for Aviation Medicine at the German Experimental Institute for Aviation and First Lieutenant in the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe.

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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.

3. Crimes against humanity: High-altitude experiments.

Prosecution’s Case

• Opening Statement (December 9th, 1946)

• High-altitude experiments at Dachau (December 10th — December 11th)

• Rebuttal evidence (July 2nd, 1947 — 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 25th)

• Witnesses:

  1. Siegfried Ruff (April 25th — April 30th)

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

• Defendant’s personal statement (July 19th)

• Verdict (August 19th)