. NMT02-T0297
Volume II · Page 297
BONE, MUSCLE AND NERVE REGENERATION AND BONE TRANSPLANTATION
These experiments have been discussed in connection with the case of the defendant Gebhardt, who was assisted therein by the defendant Fischer. Testimony and exhibits now constituting parts of the record in this case reveal that Fischer has offered no substantial defense to the charge. Indeed, criminal connection with these experiments is admitted, and the admission includes the defendant's own testimony that he personally performed at least some of the operations. It only remains for the Tribunal to hold that on the specification above-mentioned the defendant Fischer is guilty.
To the extent that the crimes committed by defendant Fischer were not war crimes they were crimes against humanity.
MEMBERSHIP IN CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION
Under count four of the indictment Fritz Fischer is charged with being a member of an organization declared criminal by the judgment of the International Military Tribunal, namely, the SS. The evidence shows that Fritz Fischer became a member of the SS in 1934 and remained in this organization until the end of the war. As a member of the SS he was criminally implicated in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as charged under counts two and three of the indictment.
CONCLUSION Military Tribunal I finds and adjudges that the defendant Fritz Fischer is guilty under counts two, three, and four of the indictment.
| [signed] | WALTER B. BEALS | |
| PRESIDING JUDGE. | ||
| HAROLD L. SEBRING | ||
| JUDGE. | ||
| JOHNSON T. CRAWFORD | ||
| JUDGE. |
