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Defendants

  • Karl Brandt

    Karl Brandt

  • Siegfried Handloser

    Siegfried Handloser

  • Paul Rostock

    Paul Rostock

  • Oskar Schroeder

    Oskar Schroeder

  • Karl Genzken

    Karl Genzken

  • Karl Gebhardt

    Karl Gebhardt

  • Kurt Blome

    Kurt Blome

  • Rudolf Brandt

    Rudolf Brandt

  • Joachim Mrugowsky

    Joachim Mrugowsky

  • Helmut Poppendick

    Helmut Poppendick

  • Wolfram Sievers

    Wolfram Sievers

  • Gerhard Rose

    Gerhard Rose

  • Siegfried Ruff

    Siegfried Ruff

  • Hans Wolfgang Romberg

    Hans Wolfgang Romberg

  • Viktor Brack

    Viktor Brack

  • Hermann Becker-Freyseng

    Hermann Becker-Freyseng

  • Georg August Weltz

    Georg August Weltz

  • Konrad Schaefer

    Konrad Schaefer

  • Waldemar Hoven

    Waldemar Hoven

  • Wilhelm Beiglboeck

    Wilhelm Beiglboeck

  • Adolf Pokorny

    Adolf Pokorny

  • Herta Oberheuser

    Herta Oberheuser

  • Fritz Fischer

    Fritz Fischer

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Karl Brandt

Karl Brandt

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Siegfried Handloser

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Paul Rostock

Paul Rostock

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Oskar Schroeder

Oskar Schroeder

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Karl Genzken

Karl Genzken

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Karl Gebhardt

Karl Gebhardt

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Kurt Blome

Kurt Blome

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Rudolf Brandt

Rudolf Brandt

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Joachim Mrugowsky

Joachim Mrugowsky

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Helmut Poppendick

Helmut Poppendick

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Wolfram Sievers

Wolfram Sievers

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Gerhard Rose

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Siegfried Ruff

Siegfried Ruff

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Hans Wolfgang Romberg

Hans Wolfgang Romberg

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Viktor Brack

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Hermann Becker-Freyseng

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Georg August Weltz

Georg August Weltz

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Konrad Schaefer

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Waldemar Hoven

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Wilhelm Beiglboeck

Wilhelm Beiglboeck

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Adolf Pokorny

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Herta Oberheuser

Herta Oberheuser

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Fritz Fischer

Fritz Fischer

FROM THE INDICTMENT

[from Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10. Nuremberg, October 1946–April 1949. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O, 1949–1953.]:

The persons accused as guilty of these crimes and accordingly named as defendants in this case are —

KARL BRANDT — Personal physician to AdoIf Hitler; Gruppenfuehrer in the SS and Generalleutnant (Major General) in the Waffen SS; Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation (Reichskommissar fuer Sanitaets- und Gesundheitswesen); and member of the Reich Research Council (Reichsforschungsrat).

SIEGFRIED HANDLOSER — Generaloberstabsarzt (Lieutenant General, Medical Service); Medical Inspector of the Army (Heeres-sanitaetsinspekteur); and Chief of the Medical Services of the Armed Forces (Chef des Wehrmachtsanitaetswesens).

PAUL ROSTOCK — Chief Surgeon of the Surgical Clinic in Berlin; Surgical Adviser to the Army; and Chief of the Office for Medical Science and Research (Amtschef der Dienststelle Medizinische Wissenschaft und Forschung) under the defendant Karl Brandt, Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation.

OSKAR SCHROEDER — Generaloberstabsarzt (Lieutenant General Medical Service); Chief of Staff of the Inspectorate of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe (Chef des Stabes, Inspekteur des Luftwaffe-Sanitaetswesens); and Chief of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe (Chef des Sanitaetswesens der Luftwaffe).

KARL GENZKEN — Gruppenfuehrer in the SS and Generalleutnant (Major General) in the Waffen SS; and Chief of the Medical Department of the Waffen SS (Chef des Sanitaetsamts der Waffen SS).

KARL GEBHARDT — Gruppenfuehrer in the SS and Generalleutnant (Major General) in the Waffen SS; personal physician to Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler; Chief Surgeon of the Staff of the Reich Physician SS and Police (Oberster Kliniker, Reichsarzt SS und Polizei); and President of the German Red Cross.

KURT BLOME — Deputy [of the] Reich Health Leader (Reichsgesundheitsfuehrer); and Plenipotentiary for Cancer Research in the Reich Research Council.

RUDOLF BRANDT — Standartenfuehrer (Colonel); in the Allgemeine SS; Personal Administrative Officer to Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler (Persoenlicher Referent von Himmler); and Ministerial Counsellor and Chief of the Ministerial Office in the Reich Ministry of the Interior.

JOACHIM MRUGOWSKY — Oberfuehrer (Senior Colonel) in the Waffen SS; Chief Hygienist of the Reich Physician SS and Police (0berster Hygieniker, Reichsarzt SS und Polizei); and Chief of the Hygenic Institute of the Waffen SS (Chef des Hygienischen Institutes der Waffen SS).

HELMUT POPPENDICK — Oberfuehrer (Senior Colonel) in the SS; and Chief of the Personal Staff of the Reich Physician SS and Police (Chef des Persoenlichen Stabes des Reichsarztes SS und Polizei).

WOLFRAM SIEVERS — Standartenfuehrer (Colonel) in the SS; Reich Manager of the "Ahnenerbe" Society and Director of its Institute for Military Scientific Research (Institut fuer Wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung); and Deputy Chairman of the Managing Board of Directors of the Reich Research Council.

GERHARD ROSE — Generalarzt of the Luftwaffe (Brigadier General, Medical Service of the Air Force); 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.

SIEGFRIED RUFF — Director of the Department for Aviation Medicine at the German Experimental Institute for Aviation (Deutsche Versuchsanstalt fuer Luftfahrt).

HANS WOLFGANG ROMBERG — Doctor on the Staff of the Department for Aviation Medicine at the German Experimental Institute for Aviation.

VIKTOR BRACK — Oberfuehrer (Senior Colonel) in the SS and Sturmbannfuehrer (Major) in the Waffen SS; and Chief Administrative Officer in the Chancellery of the Fuehrer of the NSDAP (Oberdienstleiter, Kanzlei des Fuehrers der NSDAP).

HERMANN BECKER-FREYSENG — Stabsarzt in the Luftwaffe (Captain, Medical Service of the Air Force); and Chief of the Department for Aviation Medicine of the Chief of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe.

GEORG AUGUST WELTZ — Oberfeldarzt in the Luftwaffe (Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Service of the Air Force); and Chief of the Institute for Aviation Medicine in Munich (Institut fuer Luftfahrtmedizin).

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

WALDEMAR HOVEN — Hauptsturmfuehrer (Captain) in the Waffen SS; and Chief Doctor of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.

WILHELM BEIGLBOECK — Consulting Physician to the Luftwaffe.

ADOLF POKORNY — Physician, Specialist in Skin and Venereal Diseases.

HERTA OBERHEUSER — Physician at the Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp; and Assistant Physician to the defendant Gebhardt at the Hospital at Hohenlychen.

FRITZ FISCHER — Sturmbannfuehrer (Major) in the Waffen SS; and Assistant Physician to the defendant Gebhardt at the Hospital at Hohenlychen.

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