The Defendant Gebhardt has given us an affidavit, which is Document No. NO-671 and which I offer as Prosecution Exhibit 25 [HLSL item 1862]. This is on Page 44 of the English Document Book.

"I, Dr. Karl Gebhardt, being duly sworn, depose and state:

"1. I was born on 23 November 1897 at Haag, Germany. I attended school in Haag, Munich, Rosenheim, and Landshut, and in 1916 I joined the German Army. I took part in the fighting on the Western Front. From 1917 to 1919 I was a prisoner of war in England. In 1920 I was a member of the Munich Student Company during the fighting under the leadership of the then Minister of the Interior Noske in the skirmishes in the Ruhr Territory.

"2. In 1919 I continued my medical studies at the University of Munich. During 1922 I interned at the City Hospital in Landshut and at the Pathological Institute at Munich, and became an assistant resident physician without pay there in the fall of 1922.

"3. On 9 November 1923 I took part in the Nazi putsch in Munich as a member of the Free Corps "Bund Oberland." In 1924 I became an assistant at the Munich University Surgical Clinic under Geheimrat Sauerbruch until 1926, then under Geheimrat Lexer until 1933. In 1932 I became instructor in surgery at Munich University.

"4. I joined the Nazi Party on 1 May 1933, my number being 1,723,317. I joined the General-SS on 20 April 1935, my number being 265,894. I ultimately rose