BALACHOWSKY: All these experiments resulted in death.
M. DUBOST: Always in death? So each experiment is equivalent to a murder
for which the SS are collectively responsible?
BALACHOWSKY: For which those who established this institution are
responsible.
M. DUBOST: That is the SS as a whole, and the German medical corps in
particular?
BALACHOWSKY: Definitely so, as the orders came from the
Versuchsabteilung 5 (Research Section 5). The SS were responsible as the
orders were issued by that section at Leipzig and, therefore, came from
the Supreme Command of the Waffen SS.
M. DUBOST: Thank you. What were the results of the experiments made on
sexual hormones?
BALACHOWSKY: They were less serious. Besides, these were ridiculous
experiments from the scientific point of view. There were, at
Buchenwald, a number of homosexuals, that is to say, men who had been
convicted by German tribunals for this vice. These homosexuals were sent
to concentration camps, especially to Buchenwald, and were mixed with
the other prisoners.
M. DUBOST: Especially with the so-called political prisoners, who in
reality were patriots?
BALACHOWSKY: With all kinds of prisoners.