Konrad Schaefer — Doctors' Trial Index

Index > Konrad Schaefer

Position

Doctor on the Staff of the Institute for Aviation Medicine in Berlin.

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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: Seawater experiments.

3. Crimes against humanity: Seawater experiments.

Prosecution’s Case

• Opening Statement (December 9th, 1946)

• Seawater experiments (December 16th)

• 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 (June 2nd)

• Witnesses:

  1. Konrad Schaefer (June 2nd)

  2. Franz Vollhardt (June 3rd)

  3. Konrad Schaefer (June 4th)

  4. Paul F. Dorn (June 5th — June 6th)

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

• Defendant’s personal statement (July 19th)

• Verdict (August 19th)