Another series of experiments carried out at the Dachau concentration
camp concerned immunization for and treatment of malaria. Over 1,200
inmates of practically every nationality were experimented upon. Many
persons who participated in these experiments have already been tried
before a general military court held at Dachau, and the findings of that
court will be laid before this Tribunal. The malaria experiments were
carried out under the general supervision of a Dr. Schilling, with whom
the defendant Sievers and others in the box collaborated. The evidence
will show that healthy persons were infected by mosquitoes or by
injections from the glands of mosquitoes. Catholic priests were among
the subjects. The defendant Gebhardt kept Himmler informed of the
progress of these experiments. Rose furnished Schilling with fly eggs
for them, and others of the defendants participated in various ways
which the evidence will demonstrate.
After the victims had been infected, they were variously treated with
quinine, neosalvarsan, pyramidon, antipyrin, and several combinations of
these drugs. Many deaths occurred from excessive doses of neosalvarsan
and pyramidon. According to the findings of the Dachau court, malaria
was the direct cause of 30 deaths and 300 to 400 others died as the
result of subsequent complications.