Rose Document 11 Rose Ex. 27 Extracts from report of Professor 298
Dr. E. Gildemeister concerning
the activities of the Robert
Koch Institute—Reich institute
for the fight against infectious
diseases.
Rose Document 47 Rose Ex. 35 Affidavit of Professor Dr. Hans 300
Luxenburger, 24 March 1947,
concerning Rose’s interest in
therapeutical malaria
treatments.
Rose Document 50 Rose Ex. 49 Extract from the affidavit of 302
Professor Dr. Ernst Georg Nauck,
M. D., Hamburg 4,
Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for
nautical and tropical diseases.
_Testimony_
Extracts from the testimony of prosecution witness August H. 303
Vieweg
Extracts from the testimony of defendant Rose 308
PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-856
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 125
EXTRACTS FROM THE REVIEW OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE
GENERAL MILITARY COURT IN THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES
_VS._ WEISS, RUPPERT, ET AL., HELD AT DACHAU, GERMANY
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A series of experiments concerning the treatment of malaria were
conducted under the supervision of the accused, Dr. Schilling (_R
157_).[34] Three hundred to four hundred persons died as a result (_R
204, 206_). The facts elicited with respect to these experiments are set
out in detail _infra_ in connection with Dr. Schilling.
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_B. The common design at the Kaufering Branch Camps of Dachau_
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_C. The Individual Defendants_
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15. _Dr. Claus Karl Schilling._ A special experimental station had been
set aside in the hospital for the performance of malaria experiments
under the supervision of the accused Dr. Schilling (_R 191, 157, 482_).
Schilling performed his research for the purpose of determining
immunization for and treatment of malaria (_R 192_). Requests for
prisoners were made by Schilling (_R 159-160_). One such request which
was admitted into evidence, stated that Polish prisoners were requested
(_R 160, Pros. Ex. 38_).[35] A list of inmates was prepared in the camp
physician’s office, the inmates being of all nationalities which were
represented in the camp, and was sent to the labor office which made a
copy of the list (_R 284, 285, 287, Pros. Ex. 47, 48, 157_). There the
list was confirmed by the Schutzhaftlagerfuehrer who sometimes made a
few changes in the list (_R 285_). These lists appeared about once every
month since about 1943 (_R 285_). None of the 1,200 selectees ever
consented or volunteered (_R 160-161_). Priests were often selected for
these experiments (_R 356, 353_). An inmate, a priest named Father Koch,
related his experience in that connection (_R 356_). He was first
X-rayed and then sent to the malaria station (_R 356-357, 353, 215_). He
was put into a little room where he received a box with mosquitoes which
he had to hold in his hands for about half an hour (_R 358_). That
occurred every day for one week (_R 358, 363_). Every afternoon another
box of mosquitoes was put in between his legs while he was in bed (_R
358, 363_). Each morning a blood smear was taken from his ear and his
temperature was measured each day and night (_R 358, 364_). He was given
quinine (_R 358, 364_). In about 17 days he left the hospital (_R 359,
364_). After being released from the hospital he had to report back
every Saturday (_R 360, 364_). Eight months later he had an attack of
malaria, which recurred precisely every 3 weeks for 6 months (_R 359,
363, 364, 365_). The symptoms he felt were high fever, chills, and pains
in the joints (_R 359_). Koch did not volunteer for the experiments nor
did the other prisoners who were mostly Poles and Russians, who
underwent the treatment with him (_R 356, 362_).
The prisoners were infected with malaria by the injections of the
mosquitoes themselves or the injections of extracts of the mucous glands
of the mosquitoes (_R 157_). After having contracted malaria the
prisoners were treated in different ways (_R 157_). Some, as Father
Koch, were given quinine (_R 358_). Others were given neosalvarsan,
pyramidon, antipyrin, a drug numbered 92516, and several combinations of
these (_R 157_). Some people died as a result of these experiments (_R
158_). Schilling was present when autopsies were performed on some of
those persons (_R 158_). Whenever anyone died who had been injected with
malaria, a report of that death was made to the accused Schilling and
the chief doctor (_R 158_). Some of the victims died from the
intoxication of neosalvarsan and pyramidon, for many individuals could
not withstand large doses of these drugs (_R 159_). From the autopsy it
could be determined that a patient died of neosalvarsan since the
reactions were similar to arsenic (_R 193, 194_). In the beginning of
1944 three deaths resulted from the use of pyramidon (_R 194_). These
people were brought directly from the malaria ward to the autopsy room
(_R 197_). Two young Russian boys who were transferred from the malaria
ward to the general medical ward died within a day after their arrival
because of overdoses of pyramidon (_R 394-395, 405_). They had been sent
to the general ward so that the official cause of death which would be
stated would not be malaria (_R 405_). Pyramidon has a toxic on the
blood corpuscles which causes them to disintegrate (_R 195_). Malaria
was the direct cause of 30 deaths and as a result of complications, 300
to 400 more died (_R 196, 197_). People who had died directly from
malaria had come straight from the malaria ward while the 300 to 400
others had undergone the malaria experiment (_R 204_). These people who
had been subjected to malaria may later have died of tuberculosis,
pneumonia, or dysentery (_R 196_). Some of the patients whom Dr.
Schilling used had had tuberculosis before undergoing the experiments
(_R 11_). Fever type diseases have adverse effects on tuberculosis (_R
211_). An index of the malaria diseased people was kept in the hospital
office (_R 198_).
Schilling received various visitors such as Dr. Rabbit, who was a Reich
SS physician at Oranienberg (_R 192_).
A pretrial affidavit of the accused Schilling executed in his own
handwriting on 30 October 1945 before 2d Lieutenant Werner Conn was
admitted into evidence (_R 827, Pros. Ex. 122_). This statement reads in
pertinent part and in translation as follows:
“My name is Professor Dr. Claus Schilling. I have already worked
on tropical diseases for 45 years. I came to the experimental
station in Dachau in February 1942. I judge that I inoculated
between 900 and 1,000 prisoners. Those were mostly inoculations
for protection. These people, however, were not volunteers. The
inmates whom I gave protective inoculations were not examined by
me but by the current camp doctor. Before the inoculation there
was usually an observation of several days. The last camp doctor
was Dr. Hintermayer. As well as I can remember, in 3 years there
were 49 patients who died outside the malaria station. The
patients were always released by me as cured only after 1 year.
“As remedy I used quinine, atabrine, and neosalvarsan. I know
for sure of six cases where I used pyramidon tablets to hold
down the fever (_Pros. Ex. 122_).”
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_V. Evidence for the Defense._
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