NMT01-T278
Volume I · Page 278
Q. In that case you are saying that these dry-cold experiments were not carried out in the mountains in the winter of 1943-44. You assisted in preventing these experiments from being carried out by delaying the finding of suitable accommodation?
A. Yes.
Q. I will now briefly summarize your testimony with reference to the count concerning cold experiments.
Mr. HARDY: If it please your Honor, the defense counsel has put questions to the witness and the witness has testified to these questions. I really think summations after each experiment are unnecessary here That can take place in his closing statement.
PRESIDING JUDGE BEALS: A short summation on the part of defense counsel might be in order, as long as it does not contain too much repetition.
Dr. WEISGERBER: Yes, your Honor. You accidentally attended the completion of a cold experiment by Dr. Rascher at Dachau. You had seen no reports about Dr. Rascher's experiments and received no knowledge about them in any other way. The furnishing of the experimental subjects for the rewarming experiments were not your business, and you actually had nothing to do with it. You attended a further experiment under the circumstances which you have previously described. You know nothing about any dry-cold experiments being carried out in Dachau itself. You succeeded in delaying and finally completely frustrating the dry-cold experiments in the mountains. Is that correct?
DEFENDANT SIEVERS: Yes, that is correct.
Q. After searching your mind, did you do anything in that connection which went beyond the orders given you by Himmler?
A. No, in no way at all.
The defendants Karl Brandt, Handloser, Rostock, Gebhardt, Blome, Rudolf Brandt, Mrugowsky, Poppendick, and Sievers were charged with special responsibility for and participation in criminal conduct involving malaria experiments (par. 6 (C) of the indictment). Only the defendant Sievers was convicted on this charge. In the case Of the defendant Mrugowsky the judgment of the Tribunal makes no special reference to this charge.
