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| I regularly had to work with Professor Karl Brandt on gas
defense and I know that in view of their importance and urgency, he dispatched
all matters himself. The Department of Science and Research and its chief,
Professor Rostock, were not concerned with these matters. The N-agent was not one of the chemical warfare agents. It is an incendiary agent composed of chlorine and fluorine (ClF3); this N-agent has never been mentioned in connection with gas defense. I know that there existed in the Armament Ministry a special commission for the decontamination of drinking water; this had neither been established by Professor Brandt nor was it under his command. The task of this commission was the production of decontamination equipment but not the development of such equipment, and especially not the development of new processes for the decontamination of water. The repeated suggestions made by Professor Haase in this context were therefore beyond the field of activity of the commission. They were discussed, however, at a meeting in December 1944, at which I was present. At this meeting the representatives of the army and the air raid protection service stated that for their sphere, i.e., for the gas defense of the troops and the civilian population, there was no need to continue this work. Professor Brandt who was present at the meeting had already agreed in advance with the general opinion that the efforts of Haase did not admit of the expectation of any improvement on the experiences presented for consideration, and that they should therefore be rejected. He therefore asked me to work towards this end. As far as I know, the commission was never concerned with sea water experiments. In particular, to my knowledge, the commission had no knowledge of human experiments for the testing of agents designed to render sea water potable. I can state with certainty that the undertaking of gas experiments on human subjects was never spoken of by Professor Brandt or myself. Moreover, during discussions with army experts concerned with gas defense and chemical warfare, I never heard that Professor Brandt in any way suggested human experiments or otherwise spoke of such experiments. Nuernberg, 21 April 1947 |
| [Signature] Dr. Walter Mielenz |
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| 5. SULFANILAMIDE EXPERIMENTS |
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| a. Introduction |
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| The defendants, Karl Brandt, Handloser, Rostock, Schroeder,
Genzken, Gebhardt, Blome, Rudolf Brandt, Mrugowsky, Poppendick,
Becker-Freyseng, Oberheuser, and Fischer were charged with special |
