“Experiments on men by applying irritant chemical substances on
the skin of the calf in order to create ulcers and phlegmons.
“7) A series of other experiments—artificial infection with
malaria, artificial insemination, and so forth.”
I omit the next three pages of my statement which give the particulars
of these experiments. I would like only to draw the attention of the
Tribunal to other crimes perpetrated by the German doctors and, in
particular, to the extermination of patients in mental hospitals. I am
not going to quote all the examples which the Tribunal will find in the
report of the Extraordinary State Commission but will dwell on one crime
only, which was perpetrated in the town of Kiev. I quote a paragraph
from the report of the Extraordinary State Commission on the town of
Kiev, which the members of the Tribunal will find on Page 212 of the
document book, first column, Paragraph 6:
“On 14 October 1941 an SS detachment under the leadership of the
German garrison physician Rikowsky, entered the mental hospital.
The Hitlerites drove 300 patients into one building, kept them
there without food and water, and then shot them in a gully of
the Kirilov wood. The remaining patients were exterminated on 7
January, 27 March, and 17 October 1942.”
In the subsequent part of the Extraordinary State Commission’s report a
statement is quoted, a statement made by Professor Kapustianski, by a
woman doctor Dzevaltovska, and the nurse Troepolska. I submit to the
Tribunal as Exhibit Number USSR-249 (Document Number USSR-249) the
photostat of this testimony, and I request that it be included in the
files of the case as evidence. I am quoting some of the extracts from
this document:
“During the German occupation of the city of Kiev, the Kiev
Psychiatric Clinic had to experience tragic days, which
culminated in the complete ruin and destruction of the hospital.
A crime was committed against the unfortunate mentally sick
people, the like of which had not been known in history up to
this time.”