_3 Mar 42_:
All persons vaccinated for immunization between 6 Jan 42 and 1 Feb 42,
and the 10 control persons were infected with a virus culture of
Rickettsia-Prowazeki in the presence of Professor Gildemeister. SS
Hauptsturmfuehrer Dr. Ding infected himself in the process (laboratory
accident).
_17 Mar 42_:
Visit of Professor Gildemeister and Professor Rose (Head of the
Department for Tropical Medicine in the Robert Koch Institute) to the
experimental station. All persons experimented on fell sick with typhus
except two who, as was established later, had already had typhus during
an epidemic at the police prison in Berlin. SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Dr.
Ding fell sick with typhus and is in the hospital in Berlin. SS
Hauptsturmfuehrer Hoven, station medical officer of the Waffen SS in
Weimar, is supervising the stations in the meantime (Blocks 44 and 49).
_19 Apr 42_:
Final report on the 1st typhus vaccine research series: Stone Block 46
will be made available for the purpose of these typhus experiments.
5 deaths (3 control persons, 1 “Behring Normal”, and 1 “Behring
Strong”).
DR. DING
SS Hauptsturmfuehrer
_19 Aug 42_:
_4 Sep 42_:
_Typhus Vaccine, Research Series II_
Vaccination for immunization against typhus using the following
vaccines:
1. 20 persons with vaccines made by the Durand and Giroud process
(Pasteur Institute, Paris) from rabbit lungs.
2. 20 persons with vaccine made by the process of Combiescu, Zotta, and
collaborators from dog lungs. (Producer: Cantacuzino, Bucharest.) This
vaccine was made available by Professor Rose, who received it from Naval
Doctor Professor Ruge from Bucharest.
_15 Oct 42_:
Artificial infection of all persons vaccinated for immunization between
19 September 1942 and 4 October 1942, and 19 persons for control with
vitelline membrane virus (Rickettsia-Prowazeki).
_25 Oct 42_:
Infection has started with all persons experimented on.
_20 Nov 42_:
Charts and case history sent to Berlin.