services of the SS, Dr. Genzken had to turn over his entire pharmaceutical equipment and hygiene institutes, as well as four office chiefs to the office of the Reich Physician SS and Police. Thereby these institutes were under the sole supervision and responsibility of the Reich Physician from this time onwards.

It must be emphasized that Dr. Genzken himself never was in the foreground as a scientist.

During the First World War he was in the navy and concerned with the organization of the medical services for submarines, then he was for 15 years a general practitioner in a small town, was then occupied with organizational duties in the Reichswehr Ministry, and then with similar duties in the Waffen SS; he never held a chair or a professorship and did not have the honorary title of "Professor".

As in the course of the trial the Hygiene Institute of the Waffen SS was often connected with the experiments, may I be allowed to point out the following

The Hygiene Institute of the Waffen SS was the only one in the home country. It was not only available for the hygienic problems of the Waffen SS, but also for all other organizations of the SS and therewith also for the Reich Physician for his scientific researches. During the dispute between Grawitz and Dr. Genzken before the Chief of the SS Operational Main Office, the fields of authority between the two were again clearly defined and it was expressly pointed out that the institutes and the research equipment were to remain available to the Reich Physician for his research work (Tr. p. 3789; Genzken 3, Genzken Ex. 12.).

The Hygiene Institute of the Waffen SS was, for budgetary reasons, subordinate organizationally to the Medical Office of the Waffen SS and therewith to the defendant Dr. Genzken. Despite this, however, Genzken did not have complete and sole authority over the Institute.

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EXTRACTS FROM THE CLOSING BRIEF FOR DEFENDANT BLOME

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What connection have all these facts (concerning deterioration of the standard of the German medical profession) with the defendant Dr. Blome? He was never Chief of the German Medical Service nor was he in charge of higher education. He was merely the deputy of the Reich Chief Physician, and as such his only legitimate task was to direct the medical professional associations. Then again he only served in this capacity as the deputy of Dr. Conti (who has been frequently mentioned here), and he had to work within the limits imposed by Dr. Conti. If the prosecution intends to be fair, it may hold