I was in the classroom to see whether everything was ready for the course, when I was introduced to Professor Rose.
Q. And what about the second visit, could that have been in 1944, the second and third visit?
A. I believe so.
Q. Is the name Professor Bickenbach familiar to you?
A. Yes.
Q. Was he connected with the University of Strassbourg?
A. Yes. He was at the internal section of the University of Strassbourg and was at the Research Institute, as far as I recall he was a professor there.
Q. And do you know anything concerning his activities at Strassbourg, what research work he was connected with?
A. Yes, it was said that Professor Bickenbach was working on gas experiments.
Q. Do you know where these experiments were being conducted by him?
A. I cannot say. I only know that he had a laboratory in the old fortification of Strassbourg.
Q. Did you ever hear that Bickenbach went to Natzweiler and conducted some gas experiments there?
A. I know nothing about that.
Q. Is the name August Hirt familiar to you?
A. Yes.
Q. Was he connected with the anatomic institute at Strassbourg?
A. He was the professor of the Anatomical Institute.
Q. What was the name of one of his assistants; did he have an assistant who wore the uniform of a Luftwaffe officer?
A. I do not remember that. I remember the name, but whether that was the one in the Luftwaffe or not, I don't know anymore.
Q. Do you know the name Wimmer?
A. A Dr. Wimmer?
Q. And he was an assistant to Professor Hirt?
A. As far as I know, yes.
Q. Did you ever hear or do you know anything about any of the gas experiments conducted by Hirt and Wimmer?
A. About what, please?
Q. About the gas experiments conducted by Hirt or Wimmer?
A. Yes.
Q. What do you know about those experiments, if anything?
A. I do not know much. It was only said that Professor Hirt--Wimmer-I don't know that. But that Professor Hirt was conducting gas experiments in Natzweiler and it was also said that he was undertaking autopsies of people who were not dead yet.
Q. Did you hear what type of gas that they were experimenting with at Natzweiler?
A. No.
Q. You never heard the name of Lost gas mentioned?
A. No.
Q. Were Dr. Hirt and Dr. Haagen rather close friends?
A. Yes, I think so.
MR. MC HANEY: I have no further questions at this time.
THE PRESIDENT: At this time the Tribunal will recess until 1:30 o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION (The hearing reconvened at 1330 hours, 9 January 1947.)
THE MARSHAL: The Tribunal is again in session.
MR. MC HANEY: The Prosecution has no further questions to put to the witness at this time. If there is any cross examination, they can proceed.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any cross examination of this witness by defense counsel?
CROSS EXAMINATION BY DR. HANS PRIBILLA (Defense counsel for Paul Rostock):
Q. Witness, when asked by the Prosecution, you spoke about Professor Haagen's secretary, Dr. Olga Eier, during the last period; did you speak with or see Dr. Eier?
A. Yes.
Q. Can you tell me Dr. Eier's address or where she is working now?
A. Yes. Clinical Dermatologist, Strassbourg, Bas-Rhein.
Q. Would you please spell the latter?
A. B-a-s-R-h-e-i-n.
Q. Thank you. I have no further questions.
BY DR. MARX (Defense counsel for Professor Schroeder and Dr. Becker-Freyseng):
Q. Witness, you were speaking before about a visit of the medical chief of the Luftwaffe at the institute of Professor Haagen?
A. Yes.
Q. You said that this visit took place in June of 1944?
A. According to my recollection, yes.
Q. And there is a possibility that this visit took place on May 22nd or 23rd, 1944?
A. That is possible, too.
Q. Did you see Professor Schroeder personally, or were you merely told he was there?
A. I only saw his overcoat, which had large white epaulets on it and I was told we were concerned with the highest chief of the hygiene system of the air force. I believe that I can remember that the name Schroeder was mentioned
Q. Do you know whether the medical chief was accompanied by an adjutant?
A. I believe so.
Q. How long, according to your recollection, did this visit last?
A. At least two hours, possibly three.
Q. Was Professor Schroeder along together with Professor Haagen?
A. Of that I have no knowledge.
Q. Now, I should like to ask you with reference to the experiments on human beings, experiments with typhus. Were they already finished in the year 1943?
A. No, in the year 1943 they had not been completed. They continued until July of 1944.
Q. How do you know this date; how do you know that so exactly?
A. I have seen Professor Haagen depart from Natzweiler so often with his entire material. In August 1944 Professor Haagen left Strassbourg together with his experiments. That is how I can state for certain that the date was in July of 1944.
Q. According to your knowledge were experiments on human beings conducted with reference to epidemic jaundice?
A. No, no, I know nothing about it.
Q. Was he exclusively concerned with animal experiments?
A. As far as I know, we were only concerned with animal experiments and microscopic experiments.
Q. So I understood you perfectly with reference to Hepatitis Endemica?
A. Yes.
Q. So I understood you correctly with reference to that?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you know if there was a certain Standarten Captain Dr. Thomen after June of 1944 in that institute?
A. Yes, he was in the institute for two days.
Q. Do you know, or is it known to you, whether in order to execute these experiments on human beings an order of the agency of the Luftwaffe was in existance?
A. As far as I know, yes.
Q. Well, my question is based on the fact that these experiments were supposed to be carried out by an order of a different agency; on the order of the Reichs Research Counsel or some such agency. Did you see any letters with any headings to that effect; I mean official headings, it may have been some from the Reichs Research Counsel or from Goerring or from the Reichs Marshal or some such agency?
A. I have seen such letterheads very frequently but what was contained in the letters I have no knowledge of.
A. Yes, but did you see any letterheads with the titles Chief of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe or Inspectorate of the Luftwaffe or Medical Inspectorate of the Luftwaffe?
A. That is something I could not swear to, but I do believe that I did.
Q. Ever since 1941, you were active there. Did you not say that this morning?
A. Since 1942; February 1, 1942.
Q. Do you know anything about the cooperation of Professor Haagen with Professors Genzken, Buchner, Hubert or Kalk in connection with hepatitis?
A. No.
Q. Or on any other questions?
A. No, not at all.
Q. Do these names mean anything to you?
A. No.
Q. Genzken, Buchner, Hubert, Kalk?
A. No, nothing.
Q. You read nothing about them?
A. No, nothing.
Q. Where exactly did Professor Haagen work in the institute; in what institute did he work in the University of Strassbourg?
A. He was professor at the Hygienic Institute at Strassbourg.
Q. Professor at the Hygienic Institute at Strassbourg?
A. That is correct.
Q. Extraordinary. At the University of Strassbourg, at the Medical Institute, there was another department called Research, was there not?
A. Yes; Research.
Q. Under whom was this Research Department; Professor Bueckenbach?
A. Yes.
Q. Who was the superior of Professor Buckenbach; was it DeKamp?
A. That is something I do not know; I do not know how this was arranged.
Q. I have no further questions.
BY DR. HEINZ FRITZ (Counsel for Professor Rose):
Q. Witness, this morning you testified that according to your recollection Professor Rose was in Strassbourg on three or four occasions?
A. Yes.
Q. Professor Rose tells that he was there only twice and that was once at the time mentioned by you in 1943 and once in the year 1944. Is it possible that this statement of Professor Rose is correct?
A. In my opinion, I have seen Professor Rose on three occasions, but I would not swear to it.
Q. Can you tell me anything with reference to the visit of Professor Rose in the summer of 1944 and can you give me an exact statement as to the time?
A. No, no, I cannot do that.
Q. Another subject; do you know of the typhus vaccines of the Pasteur Casablanca and Lacray of the Institute in Tulln?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you know that these vaccines originated from living weakened virus?
A. Yes and I also know that they were not used because they were to dangerous.
Q. Do you knoW, witness, that Haagen endeavored to develop this sort of Blau, since the vaccines of that organ were not considered effective?
A. In his work Haagen based himself just as much on French work just as he did American work, according to Cox.
Q. Do you know that he wanted to develop a vaccine for typhus as against pox and yellow fever?
A. I watched him read articles, French articles, about these vaccines. I once discussed the question with him very briefly. I know that he was consulting these works for his experiments, but to what extent he was basing himself upon them, that is something I do not know.
Q Do you know that the main problem with vaccines of Blau and Legren was regarding the way the man reacted to it, the reaction of human beings to these vaccines?
A I don't understand your question quite.
Q I was speaking before of vaccine of living weakened virus, and I was asking you whether, when dealing with the research of this vaccine, the main problem consisted in the reaction and vulnerability of the human being?
A The reaction.
Q Another subject; can you tell me, Witness, when the Hygiene Institute of the University of Strasbourg was damaged by bombs?
A On the 25th of September, 1944.
Q Do you know how many dead there were at that occasion?
A Four dead.
Q Can you still remember the names of the dead?
A Yes.
Q Go ahead.
A Dr. Eckstein, the etiologist of the Institute; Paul Schultz, the laboratory clerk or servant; a switchboard operator whose name I cannot remember; and Mr. Maier, the economist of the Institute.
Q How far was the Hygiene Institute after this damage able to continue to work?
A The laboratories were transferred to the medical clinic.
Q And when did the evacuation of the valuable instruments of this Institute start?
A That must have been as early as August when it started.
Q I didn't quite understand your reply.
A I said in August, '44.
DR. FRITZ: I have no further questions.
THE PRESIDENT: Any further cross examination of this witness by any of the defense counsel?
(No reply)
MR. McHANEY: No further direct examination, your Honors.
THE PRESIDENT: Prosecution will proceed. Witness is excused.
(Witness excused)
MR. HARDY: The Tribunal has noticed that the presentation of the typhus experiments has been divided into two sections; that is, two experiments conducted at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp and the experiments conducted at the Natzweiler Concentration Camp. The indictment so stated.
At this time we will present the documentary evidence concerning the activities in connection with the typhus experiments by Dr. Haagen and his colleagues at Strasbourg and Natzweiler. I request the Tribunal to turn to page 70 of the document book where we find Document NO-370 which will be offered provisionally as Prosecution Exhibit Number 294. This is another affidavit of Rudolf Brandt which I will now read.
"I, Rudolf Emil Hermann Brandt, being duly sworn, depose and state:
"1. I am the same Rudolf Brandt who has heretofore sworn to an affidavit on the 30th day of August 1946 concerning low pressure experiments preformed on involuntary human beings in the Dachau Concentration Camp and to certain other affidavits concerning medical experiments on involuntary human beings.
"2. For the same reasons set forth in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of my affidavit of 30 August 1946, I am able to make this statement concerning experiments performed on human beings.
"Experiments with spotted fever vaccines at the Natzweiler Concentration Camp "3. In the fall of 1943, Dr. Eugen Haagen, Oberstabsarzt and consultant in hygiene for the Luftwaffe and Professor at the University of Strasbourg, requested through Wolfram Sievers of the 'Ahnenerbe' that 100 concentration camp prisoners be made available to him for experimentation on the effectiveness of spotted fever vaccines.
Obergruppenfuehrer Oswald Pohl, Chief of the WVHA, had requested the number of prisoners sent to the Natzweiler Concentration Camp and the experiments were conducted by Dr. Haagen there.
"4. Again in the Summer of 1944, Haagen obtained 200 additional prisoners for the spotted fever experiments. In each case it was specifically required that the experimental subjects be in a physical condition comparable to members of the Armed Forces. This was because the vaccines were being developed primarily for the Armed Forces. Haagen was woriking under the auspices of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe.
"5. I had nothing to do with the physical selection of the prisoners used in these experiments. That was handled through Amtsgruppe D of the WVHA, which had administrative control of all concentration camps. However, I do know that experimental subjects were simply picked out and assigned for experimentation. They were not advised of the danger of the experiments, nor could they refuse to go.
"6. I am not familiar with the technical details of the experiments but I know that they were carried out. Moreover, I am sure that some of the prisoners died as a result of the experiments. As a matter of fact, the experimental persons were at times not in good physical condition as requested and some of them even died before the experiments began.
"7. To the best of my recollection, Haagen also experimented on human beings at Natzweiler with other diseases such as yellow fever, influenza, epidemic jaundice, nephritis virus and cholera.
"8. SS Gruppenfuehrer Dr. Karl Brandt, Reich Commissar for Health and Sanitation, Generaloberstabsarzt Dr. Siegfried Handloser, Chief of the Medical Services of the Armed Forces, Generalarzt Dr. Paul Rostock, Commissioner for Science and Research and Generaloberstabsarzt Dr. Oskar Schroeder, Chief of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe, certainly know of the experiments by Haagen on human subjects. These men were informed of all fundamental events in medical and scientific research and these experiments could not have been carried out without their knowledge and approval."
DR. SERVATIUS: Mr. President, I should like to reserve the right to cross examine the defendant who made this affidavit.
THE PRESIDENT: The counsel's request will be denied if it is intended as a request to cross examine the defendant, Rudolf Brandt, at this time but without prejudice to his making the request at some later date when it may be more appropriate.
MR. HARDY: we turn now to page 73 of your Honors' document book where we find document Number NO-305 which is offered at this time as Prosecution Exhibit Number 295. Here we have the honorable Professor Rose receiving a letter from Dr. Haagen addressed to Oberstarzt Professor Dr. Rose, dated 5 June 1943, care of the Inspectorate of the Medical Service of the Luftwaffe.
"Dear Mr. Rose, In completion of our telephone call I received a letter today by Mr. Giroud, copy of which is attached. It reveals that not only 12.5 percent of the vaccinated animals may be used, but that this number concerns rabbits which died on account of an infection. My calculation is not right therefore but, as Mr. Giroud indicates, 30 to 40 persons are still required monthly for the manufacturing of 100 thousand doses. Best Regards, Heil Hitler, Yours."
The reason that the signature does not appear in that these are file copies of the Haagen file which were found by the Allied Forces when they invaded and captured Strasbourg. We turn now to the next document which is Professor Rose's answer to the letter of Haagen.
This is Berlin dated 9 June 1943. "Dear Mr. Haagen: My best thanks for both your letters dated 4 and 5 June and the prompt execution of my request. I have compiled a proposal for the Inspector," ... In this instance he is referring to the medical inspector of the Luftwaffe, and on this date of 9 Juno 1943 that office was held by Oberstabsarzt Hippke... "based on your original papers, which I enclosed and requested him to urge the Chief of the Medical Service of the Wehrmacht to order the production of spotted fever vaccine for all armed forces in the Eastern Area. I do hope we shall succeed in this matter." Now, here we find Professor Rose writing to Haagen and referring to the medical inspector of the Luftwaffe and also referring to the chief of the radical services of the Wehrmacht; that is, the defendant Handloser. They were going to order production of spotted fever vaccine for all of the armed forces in the Eastern Area. There is little doubt Professor Rose engaged in such a tremendous task as this and that he doesn't have complete knowledge of the activities of Haagen and is one of the primary responsible persons in connection with the program to further the production of this vaccine; namely, experimentation at Natzweiler in order to secure a vaccine which can be produced in such quantity to meet the demands stated herein. I continue to read the second paragraph.
"Did you hear anything from Department I relative to its position with Mitte? (translated means 'Middle or Center'). It will take some time until '2 F' produces its new research order as Anthony is on a duty trip for several weeks. With best regards, Heil Hitler, Yours signed Rose."
This document is Prosecution Exhibit 295 -- pardon me, it is Exhibit 296, Your Honor. Pardon me, I haven't introduced it. It is Exhibit number 296, that is Document number NO-306.
Now, in this last paragraph, Your Honor, we find the gentleman referred to having complete knowledge of the various organizations and whether or not a new research order will be produced, and he has cognizance of the whereabouts of the chief of the medical department for research of the Luftwaffe, Anthony, and his deputy was Becker-Freyseng; and I want to point out that that figure "2 F" has been the one that has been significantly referred to throughout our presentation.
We turn now to the next document, page 75. This is Document number NO120, which is offered as Prosecution Exhibit number 297. Here we find the defendant Sievers addressing a letter to Dr. Haagen dated 30 September 1943. It reads as follows:
"Dear Professor: I confirm receipt of your request of 16 August 1943. I shall be glad to help you and have accordingly contacted the proper source to have the desired personnel placed at your disposal. Heil Hitler, signed Sievers."
This is a confirmation of Haagen's request for personnel to be used in connection with his experimental program.
The next page is document which has been previously introduced into evidence before this Tribunal. It has Prosecution Exhibit number 189. This was, if you will recall, the report, or letter, from Haagen referring to the fa.ct that these were the urgent research tasks important for the war effort and of military importance that were listed, and I want to again call your attention to Section 2 where they referred to the subject "Typhus". We have the familiar initials, or familiar code letters of that Roman Two B which is the office of Becker-Freyseng. I won't bother to read any further into this document. It has been previously explained in detail.
The next document is on page 78, one which Mr. McHaney introduced this morning, has Prosecution Exhibit Number 293, during the direct examination of the witness Schmidt; therefore, it will be unnecessary for me to read it.
However, you can recall that this is the document in connection with the procurement of prisoners for the experiments. Therefore, Your Honors, I request that you turn to Page 79 of your document book.
Document NO-122, which is offered as Prosecution Exhibit Number 298. We have here a letter dated 3 December 1943, originating from Professor Rose, which is an extremely interesting letter. It is directed to Dr. Haagen. It states:
"Dear Mr. Haagen, Many thanks for your letter of 8.12. I regard it as unnecessary to make renewed special request to the SS main Office in addition to the request you have already made. I request that, in procuring persons for vaccination in your experiment, you requisition a corresponding number of persons for vaccination with the Copenhagen vaccine. This has the advantage, as also appeared in the Buchenwald experiments, that the testing of various vaccines simultaneously gives a clearer idea of their value than the testing of one vaccine alone. With best wishes, Heil Hitler, Yours."
Now, it is obvious from the document, Your Honors, that Professor Rose had dictated the letter, and where the signature should be it says "dictated by Professor Rose and signed after his departure." It is obvious that it was dictated by Professor Rose and he was either called away on a trip or something of the like and then it was signed by one of his deputies, and the signature that was illegible but appears below the remark "dictated by Professor Rose and signed after his departure."
I want to call to the attention of the Tribunal the remarks in the first section of this letter: "I regard it as unnecessary to make renewed special request to the SS Main Office in addition to the request you have already made." There seems to be considerable knowledge on the part of the man who denies any knowledge of the details of the work of Dr. Haagen. He was the man who denies that he knew that experimentations would be going on with human beings and there would be virulent virus used. Again he states: "I request that in procuring persons for vaccination in your experiment, you requisition a corresponding number of persons for vaccination with the Copenhagen vaccine.
Now, you can very well recall that defense counsel in the cross examination of Kogon referred to the Danish-Copenhagen vaccine in connection with Buchenwald, and in that connection he said that Rose never initiated any proposals to Mrugowsky or to the Hygiene Institute. I call the attention of the Tribunal to that sentence, and I wonder now if Professor Rose will have the same statement to make in connection in regard to the work at Natzweiler. And he goes on again, and he says: "This has the advantage, as also appeared in the Buchenwald experiments, that the testing of various vaccines simultaneously gives a clearer idea of their value than the testing of one vaccine alone." Being a layman, it may be an erroneous assumption on my part, however, I would think that such a statement would indicate that Rose was completely aware of the work at Buchenwald, and that in suggesting the testing of various vaccines simultane ously in order to test the efficacy of one vaccine against another, it would seem to me it would be necessary to use a virulent virus in connection with these experiments.
Now, after such a letter as this, Professor Rose cones to us and tells us that he had no knowledge that a virulent virus was being used, that he was completely unaware of such a thing. I wonder.
We turn now to page 80, Document number NO-311, which is offered as Prosecution Exhibit No.299. This is a letter from the president of the Reidhs Research Council addressed to Professor Haagen.
"Honored Professor: The report in triplicate which was due here last fall unfortunately has not yet arrived. At the beginning of the new year we have to render a report of the results ourselves so that we are obliged to request immediate sumittance of these records. We invite your attention to the fact that the back of this statement of account may possibly effect a discontinuance of the assigned priorities.
"Short reports are requested of about half a typewritten page, avoiding all unnecessary details. Only the particular results are to be shown, not the intentions and projects. Where conditions had prevented the forthcoming of any result, give short explanation. Heil Hitler, signed by a man named "Breuer," This is a letter which is obviously referring to Haagen. As you will recall in one other part of the presentation, Haagen was rather lax in some of his reporting. They are now insisting that he submit his reports so that he can continue to receive his subsidy from Reichs Research Council for this all-important criminal work of his.
In this connection, we have the next document which is document NO-138, which is Haagen's answers. This is offered as Prosecution Exhibit Number 300, Your Honor. This is addressed to the President of the Reich Research Council regarding the letter of 12 January 1944. It states as follows:
"Enclosed I am forwarding three copies of a report concerning the present status of my experiments, which are being carried out with Reich Research Council means:
"1. Epidemic Influenza.
"2. Spotted Fever "3. Epidemic Yellow Fever.
"At the same time I have sent two copies of the report on 2. and 3. to the Chief of the War Economy Bureau of the Reich Research Council. Signed Dr. Haagen."
We turn to next page which is a continuation of the same Document, Your Honors, and we find the reports.
"In supplement to my report dated 14 August 1943, I beg to inform you that the research work is concerned with experiments on epidemic influenza, production of typhus vaccines, and etiological study of epidemic jaundice, pass word 'Icterus Strasburg'.
"1. Epidemic Influenza, Immunization experiments have been undertaken with a product free from bacteria, obtained from the lungs of mice. The vaccine is obtained from filtration residue and administered to human beings by intra-muscular injection in quantities of 1.10 to 1.5 cubic centimeters and at intervals of about one week. A typical reaction to the vaccine could be observed on some 200 subjects. A certain number of them showed mild forms of influenza with neuralgic and rheumatic symptoms, a mild catarrh of the upper larynx, fever and decrease in the number of white corpuscles.
"The vaccine is composed of various cultures, for example, several human influenza virus cultures and a pig influenza virus culture.
"After these encouraging observations, attempts are now being made to obtain this vaccine in a form that will permit its conservation. For this the vacuum drying process developed by me is used.
"It could be shown by experiments on animals that infected mouse lungs, when dried in the vacuum apparatus and kept in ice at about minus 40 degrees, are still infectious alter a year.
"The cultivation experiments on the impregnated and incubated hen's eggs have been carried on. They result in a very rapid multiplication of the virus of the egg. The virus is detectable in the viteline sac and in the allantois as well as in the organs of the embryo. Innoculation from egg to egg must be effected at least every two or three days for the eggs die quickly. From this egg product, vaccine is now being made and its possibilities examined in comparison to those of mouse lung vaccine.
"Experiments for the production of a live typhus vaccine are being carried on."
I want the Tribunal to note the words: "live typhus vaccine are being carried on."
"Particular attention is given to the conservation possibilities of vaccine obtained in a dried form. For this vaccines which had been stored for five or six months were used. So far, the result could be observed on eight persons. Four weeks after the innoculation a protein agglutination contents of 1:2000 could be observed in a few cases. This leads to the conclusion that the dried vaccine can be kept a long time without losing its antigenous property. It is possible in any case to obtain with this vaccine contents surpassing in value by far that obtained hirerto with the usual dead vaccines. These experiments are made with a muriatic culture. Experiments are now being made to find out whether similar results can be achieved with Provazck's epidemic culture. The anti-infectious effect of dried vaccine will be further experimented on human beings.
"3) Epidemic Jaundice.
"In a large number of jaundice cases, liver extracts and gall were examined for the presence of a virus. By innoculating mice with material from such patients, it has been possible so far to isolate three virus cultures. The first culture has been bred on as many as fifteen successive mice; the other two on three to five successive mice. The mice are infected and slow the charactic symptoms of a virulent disease in both the lungs and the liver. The virus can be successfully bred from mouse to mouse by intra-nasal instillation as well as by intraperiteneal injection. Intranasal instillations too result in typical alterations of the liver when a strongly marked leam color is conspicuously apparent, while a microscopic view reveals round cellular infiltrations round the blood vessels.
"In preparations obtained from liver and lung extracts which have been colored with Victoria blue, forms are visible which, according to their size, color and shape, can be described as elementary corpuscles.
"It is now being studied whether, in the case of the virus cultures isolated so far, we are in presence of a new, independent virus, possibly a specifically hepathic virus, or rather a virus already known, such as the virus of influenza.
Heil Hitler!
(Signed) Prof. Dr. E. Haagen" This report was sent to no less than the President of the National Research Board, and clearly indicates the work of Haagen and can well establish the fact that all these high representatives of the organization, the Reich Research Council, were fully aware of his work and what it meant in a criminal sense.
We turn now, Your Honors, to Page 85. This is Document No. NO-134, which is offered as Prosecution Exhibit No. 301. This is a letter -- it doesn't carry too much significance -- dated 3 February 1944, and it is merely Haagen asking his colleague at Natzweiler the following:
"At the request of your two camp doctors --", purely the work of Haagen, and here he is sending some thermometers to make the care and the recording of the reports simpler. He continues and says: "I would be very grateful to you if you would send - me a list of those vaccinated, stating their age and when they were vaccinated." Then he lists the names as seen on the document: Kauthen, Kramer, Rosef, Paulson, Nales, and leo.
The next document, Document No. NO-302, which is offered as prosecution Exhibit No. 302, is a report by Haagen to the Commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, dated 27 April 1944. The report refers to a letter of the 8th of January 1944, and again, Your Honors, we see the familiar code letters Roman numeral 2. B, which at this time, this date, was the office of Becker-Freiseng:
"The claim of the Behring plants that the whole embryo could be used for the production of typhus vaccine from chicken eggs has been re-examined. The experiments were made on about two hundred eggs which were infected consecutively. The Rickettsia Prowazeki and also Rickettsias of the muriatic typhus variety were used as virus cultures. The vaccination of the eggs was carried out in the same way as in the preparation of the vitelline-sac vaccine. Age of the embryos at time of vaccinations 7 days; further incubating after the infection: 3 days. The embryos were then recessed separately according to the proportion of Rickettsia in the vitalline-sacs. Organic specimen tests did not reveal the presence of Rickettsia with certainty even when the findings concerning: the vitelline-sacs were positive. It was the same with the total emulsions of the embryos. In order to ascertain whether or not they had an infectious character, normal embryos (vitteline-sacs) were vaccinated with total emulsions so as to obtain an increase even if the presence of Rickettsia-contents in the embryonic tissue was no longer traceable with a microscope. For this purpose a 5.0 cem "Ringer" solution was added per embryo and this mixture was shaken for an hour. after these eggs had been incubated for five days, test compounds were made from the vitelline-sacs of these eggs.