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Poison gas (Mustard/Lost, etc) experiments (NMT 1, 3, 4) (63)

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Typhus (and related) vaccine experiments (IMT, NMT 1, 4) (33)

Freezing experiments (IMT, NMT 1, 2, 4) (31)

Malaria experiments (IMT, NMT 1, 4) (29)

Seawater experiments (IMT, NMT 1, 4) (28)

Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) (27)

Epidemic jaundice experiments (NMT 1, 4) (25)

Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4, 9) (24)

Sulfanilamide experiments (NMT 1, 4) (24)

Polygal (23)

Sterilization experiments (IMT, NMT 1, 4) (23)

Biographical and character evidence (all cases) (22)

High altitude experiments (IMT,NMT 1, 2, 4) (21)

Bone, muscle, nerve surgery experiments (IMT, NMT 1, 4) (16)

Euthanasia program (Action 14 f 13) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) (16)

Biological warfare experiments (IMT, NMT 1) (15)

Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates) (IMT, NMT 3, 4, 7) (13)

Poison (in food and/or bullets) experiments (IMT, NMT 1, 4) (13)

Tubercular Poles program (NMT 1) (11)

Burn treatment (incendiaries) experiments (NMT 1) (10)

Extermination of the Jews (IMT, NMT 4, 9) (10)

Medical ethics and standards (NMT 1) (10)

Jewish skeleton collection (IMT, NMT 1) (9)

Phlegmon (sepsis) experiments (IMT, NMT 1, 4) (9)

Plundering of private property and occupied territories (inc. Reinhardt Action) (IMT, NMT 4, 5, 6 9) (7)

Execution or murder of civilians and prisoners of war (inc. "special treatment") (IMT, NMT 4, 7, 9) (6)

Forced labor in concentration camps and SS labor units (IMT, NMT 4) (6)

Phenol (gas oedema) experiments (NMT 1) (6)

Deportation or expulsion of civilian populations from occupied territories (IMT, NMT 2, 4, 5, 6, 8) (5)

Food experiments (NMT 1, 4) (5)

Hepatitis epidemica experiments (NMT 1) (5)

Imprisonment in concentration camps and SS labor camps (IMT, NMT 4) (5)

SS economic enterprises (SS financing; forced labor; Office group W in W.V.H.A.) (NMT 4) (5)

Warsaw ghetto (IMT, NMT 4) (5)

Chemical warfare (water) experiments (NMT 1) (4)

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Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NMT 3, 7, 9, 11) (4)

Phosgene gas experiments (NMT 1) (4)

Prisoners of war, mistreatment of, in concentration camps and SS agencies (IMT, NMT 4) (4)

Hormone (homosexuality) experiments (NMT 1, 4) (3)

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Partisan fighters (and commandos), operations against, and treatment of (IMT, NMT 7, 12) (1)

Prisoners of war, abuse, forced labor, or killing of (IMT, NMT 2, 5, 12) (1)

Tuberculosis experiments (NMT 4) (1)

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Affidavit concerning the development of N-product [poison gas program]

Affidavit I.

HLSL Item No.: 2740

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Exhibit Code: Brandt, K. 36

Juergen Klenck, von

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Juergen von Klenck

German chemist

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  • Born: 1909-06-08 (Bydgoszcz)
  • Died: 1978-02-20
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: chemist
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel
  • Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-03-06; main subject: Karl Brandt; role: affiant)
  • Significant person: Otto Ambros (role: deputy)

06 March 1947
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Affidavit concerning Karl Brandt and the chemical warfare defense program [poison gas]

Affidavit

HLSL Item No.: 2754

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Exhibit Code: Brandt, K. 41

Otto Ambros

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Otto Ambros

German chemist (1901-1990)

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  • Born: 1901-05-19 (Weiden in der Oberpfalz)
  • Died: 1990-07-23 (Mannheim)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
  • Occupation: chemist; engineer
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-04-21; main subject: Karl Brandt, chemical warfare agents; role: affiant); Operation Paperclip
  • Employer: IG Farben (position held: director)
  • Educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

21 April 1947
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Affidavit concerning Karl Brandt and the chemical warfare defense program [poison gas]

Affidavit II

HLSL Item No.: 2741

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Exhibit Code: Brandt, K. 37

Juergen Klenck, von

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Juergen von Klenck

German chemist

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  • Born: 1909-06-08 (Bydgoszcz)
  • Died: 1978-02-20
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: chemist
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel
  • Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-03-06; main subject: Karl Brandt; role: affiant)
  • Significant person: Otto Ambros (role: deputy)

06 March 1947
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Affidavit concerning Karl Brandt and defense measures against chemical warfare [poison gas]

Affidavit

HLSL Item No.: 2748

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Exhibit Code: Brandt, K. 100

Karl Quasebart

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Karl Quasebart

German university teacher (1882-1949)

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  • Born: 1882-07-08 (Aachen)
  • Died: 1949-05-24
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: engineer; university teacher
  • Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-03-08; role: affiant)
  • Significant person: Karl Brandt (role: colleague; since: 1943-01-01)
  • Employer: RWTH Aachen University

08 March 1947
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Statement concerning the use of prison inmates in poison gas experiments

HLSL Item No.: 6413

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Evidence Code: NG-405

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 297

Walter Strelow

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Walter Strelow

German prison director

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  • Born: 1890-02-15 (Berlin)
  • Occupation: prison director (location: Plötzensee Prison)
  • Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant)
  • Significant person: Siegfried Ruff (role: defendant)
  • Residence: Berlin
  • VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/61147118199726340914
  • WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016092217

22 November 1946
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Affidavit concerning Karl Brandt and the chemical warfare (poison gas) defense program

Affidavit No. II

HLSL Item No.: 2673

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Exhibit Code: Brandt, K. 10

Walther Schieber

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Walther Schieber

SS officer; chief of Armament Supply Office

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  • Born: 1896-09-13 (Beimerstetten)
  • Died: 1960-06-29 (Oberreichenbach)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel
  • Participant in: Pohl Trial (date: 1947-05-24; role: affiant)
  • Employer: Ministry of Ammunition and War Production of Nazi Germany

31 January 1947
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Affidavit concerning an earlier affidavit about the poison gas experiments

Affidavit

HLSL Item No.: 2875

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Exhibit Code: Handloser 22

Rudolf Emil H. Brandt

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Rudolf Emil H. Brandt

German civil servant and SS officer, convicted war criminal (1909-1948)

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  • Born: 1909-06-02 (Frankfurt (Oder))
  • Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: jurist; lawyer; stenographer
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
  • Member of: The Ahnenerbe
  • Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
  • Significant person: Heinrich Himmler (role: adjutant)

February 1947
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Affidavit concerning the poison gas experiments at Sachsenhausen and Natzweiler

HLSL Item No.: 4154

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Evidence Code: NO-372

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 231

Rudolf Emil H. Brandt

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Rudolf Emil H. Brandt

German civil servant and SS officer, convicted war criminal (1909-1948)

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  • Born: 1909-06-02 (Frankfurt (Oder))
  • Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: jurist; lawyer; stenographer
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
  • Member of: The Ahnenerbe
  • Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
  • Significant person: Heinrich Himmler (role: adjutant)

14 October 1946
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Letter to Heinrich Himmler concerning experiments with poison gas

Subject: Experiments with N-Substance.

HLSL Item No.: 4160

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Evidence Code: NO-5

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 237

Ernst Grawitz

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Ernst Robert Grawitz

German general; Reichsarzt; facilitated medical torture and experiments on Nazi concentration camp inmates

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  • Born: 1899-06-08 (Charlottenburg)
  • Died: 1945-04-24 (Babelsberg)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: concentration camp guard; internist; military physician; torturer
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel (date: 1944-01-01)
  • Significant person: Ernst Kaltenbrunner (role: colleague); Leonardo Conti
  • Military rank: Obergruppenführer

22 November 1944
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Affidavit and letter concerning the poison gas program

Affidavit.

HLSL Item No.: 2676

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Exhibit Code: Brandt, K. 13

Walther Schieber

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Walther Schieber

SS officer; chief of Armament Supply Office

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  • Born: 1896-09-13 (Beimerstetten)
  • Died: 1960-06-29 (Oberreichenbach)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel
  • Participant in: Pohl Trial (date: 1947-05-24; role: affiant)
  • Employer: Ministry of Ammunition and War Production of Nazi Germany

Albert Speer

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Albert Speer

German architect, Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany (1905-1981)

Albert Speer i 1933
  • Born: 1905-03-19 (Mannheim) (country: Germany)
  • Died: 1981-09-01 (London)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: architect; autobiographer; engineer; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (series ordinal: 474481)
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel; Sturmabteilung
  • Participant in: International Military Tribunal (role: defendant); Milch Trial (date: 1945-10-18; role: witness)
  • Military branch: Schutzstaffel

01 February 1947
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Affidavit concerning Karl Brandt and the chemical warfare defense program [poison gas], water decontamination, and the seawater experiments

Affidavit.

HLSL Item No.: 2756

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Exhibit Code: Brandt, K. 42

Walter Mielenz

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Walter Mielenz

chemist; provided affidavit for Karl Brandt

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  • Born: 1888-11-11 (Berlin)
  • Occupation: chemist
  • Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant)
  • Significant person: Karl Brandt (role: colleague)
  • Employer: Ministry of Aviation (period: 1933-01-01 through 1945-01-01)

21 April 1947
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Supplement to affidavit concerning the use of prisoners in experiments

From the Prosecution Document Book No. VII - Case III. Prisoners condemned to death used for experiments with poison gas

HLSL Item No.: 1001

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Evidence Code: NG-405

Exhibit Code: Ruff 21

Walter Strelow

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Walter Strelow

German prison director

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  • Born: 1890-02-15 (Berlin)
  • Occupation: prison director (location: Plötzensee Prison)
  • Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: affiant)
  • Significant person: Siegfried Ruff (role: defendant)
  • Residence: Berlin
  • VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/61147118199726340914
  • WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016092217

22 November 1946
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Letter to Richard Gluecks concerning the research project at Natzweiler [poison gas]

Subject: Military scientific research in connection with the Natzweiler camp.

HLSL Item No.: 4155

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Evidence Code: NO-935

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 232

Wolfram Sievers

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Wolfram Sievers

German Managing Director of the NS Association German Ancestral Heritage (Ahnenerbe) (1905-1948)

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  • Born: 1905-07-10 (Hildesheim)
  • Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: managing director; official
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1929-01-01)
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel (since: 1935-01-01)
  • Participant in: Nazi human experimentation (location: Dachau concentration camp); Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-01-20; role: affiant, defendant, witness)
  • Significant person: Helmut Poppendick (role: colleague); Kurt Wehlte

27 August 1942
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Letter to Richard Gluecks concerning the organization of research work at Natzweiler [poison gas]

Subject: Military Scientific Research in connection with the concentration camp Natzweiler.

HLSL Item No.: 4156

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Evidence Code: NO-978

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 233

Wolfram Sievers

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Wolfram Sievers

German Managing Director of the NS Association German Ancestral Heritage (Ahnenerbe) (1905-1948)

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  • Born: 1905-07-10 (Hildesheim)
  • Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: managing director; official
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1929-01-01)
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel (since: 1935-01-01)
  • Participant in: Nazi human experimentation (location: Dachau concentration camp); Nuremberg Medical Trial (date: 1947-01-20; role: affiant, defendant, witness)
  • Significant person: Helmut Poppendick (role: colleague); Kurt Wehlte

11 September 1942
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Affidavit concerning the poison gas experiments at Natzweiler

Affidavit

HLSL Item No.: 4159

Source of Text: Case Files/English (US or UK)

Evidence Code: NO-590

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 236

Ferdinand Holl

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Ferdinand Holl

miner

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  • Born: 1900-12-21 (Schiffweiler)
  • Occupation: manager; miner
  • Participant in: Pohl Trial (date: 1946-11-03; role: affiant)
  • Significant person: August Hirt (role: acquaintance)
  • Place of detention: Buchenwald concentration camp (since: 1940-12-01); Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp (role: orderly; since: 1941-03-01)

03 November 1946
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