. NMT02-T0189
Volume II · Page 189
Military Scientific Research was established as a part of the Ahnenerbe. Its purposes are defined in a letter written by Himmler to Sievers, which directed the following with reference to the Ahnenerbe:
"1. To establish an Institute for Military Scientific Research.In its ,judgment, the International Military Tribunal made the following findings of fact with reference to the Ahnenerbe:
2. To support in every possible way the research carried out by SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Professor Dr. Hirt and to promote all corresponding research and undertakings.
3. To make available the required apparatus, equipment, accessories and assistants, or to procure them.
4. To make use of the facilities available in Dachau.
5. To contact the Chief of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office with regards to the costs which can be borne by the Waffen SS."
"Also attached to the SS main offices was a research foundation known as the Experiments Ahnenerbe. The scientists attached to this organization are stated to have been mainly honorary members of the SS. During the war an institute for military scientific research became attached to the Ahnenerbe which conducted extensive experiments involving the use of living human beings. An employee of this institute was a certain Dr. Rascher, who conducted these experiments with the full knowledge of the Ahnenerbe, which were subsidized and under the patronage of the Reichsfuehrer SS who was a trustee of the foundation." *We shall now discuss the evidence as it pertains to the cases of the individual defendants. The evidence conclusively shows that the German word "Fleckfieber" which is translated in the indictment as "spotted fever" is more correctly translated by "typhus." This is admitted, and in this ,judgment, in accord with the evidence, we use the word typhus instead of "spotted fever."
The defendant Karl Brandt is charged with special responsibility for, and participation in, Freezing, Malaria, Lost Gas, Sulfanilamide, Bone, Muscle and Nerve Regeneration and Bone
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* Trial of the Major War Criminals, vol. 1, p. 269, Nuernberg, 1947.
