The United States of America, by the undersigned Telford Taylor, Chief
of Counsel for War Crimes, duly appointed to represent said Government
in the prosecution of war criminals, charges that the defendants herein
participated in a common design or conspiracy to commit and did commit
war crimes and crimes against humanity, as defined in Control Council
Law No. 10, duly enacted by the Allied Control Council on 20 December
1945. These crimes included murders, brutalities, cruelties, tortures,
atrocities, and other inhumane acts, as set forth in counts one, two,
and three of this indictment. Certain defendants are further charged
with membership in a criminal organization, as set forth in count four
of this indictment.
The persons accused as guilty of these crimes and accordingly named as
defendants in this case are—
KARL BRANDT—Personal physician to Adolf 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
(Heeressanitaetsinspekteur); 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 GERHARDT—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
(Oberster Hygieniker, Reichsarzt SS und Polizei); and Chief of
the Hygienic 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.