. NMT02-T0362
Volume II · Page 362
| [Mar-] shal in the Luftwaffe, Aircraft Master General, and Chief of the Jaegerstab, had responsibility for the development and production of arms and munitions for the German Air Force. The defendant Milch exploited foreign laborers and prisoners of war in the arms, aircraft, and munitions factories under his control, made requisitions for and allocations of such labor within the aircraft industry, and personally directed that cruel and repressive measures be adopted towards such labor. 6. Pursuant to the order of the defendant Milch, prisoners of war who had attempted escape were murdered on or about 15 February 1944. 7. The said war crimes constitute violations of international conventions, particularly of Articles 4, 5, 6, 7, 46, and 52 of the Hague Regulations, 1907, and of Articles 2, 3, 4, 6, and 31 of the Prisoner-of-War Convention (Geneva, 1929), the laws and customs of war, the general principles of criminal law as derived from the criminal laws of all civilized nations, the internal penal laws of the countries in which such crimes were committed, and Article II of Control Council Law No. 10. |
| COUNT TWO |
| 8. Between March 1942 and May 1943 the
defendant Milch unlawfully, wilfully, and knowingly committed war crimes as
defined in Article H of Control Council Law No. 10, in that he was a principal
in, accessory to, ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, and was
connected with plans and enterprises involving medical experiments without the
subjects' consent, upon members of the armed forces and civilians of nations
then at war with the German Reich and who were in the custody of the German
Reich in the exercise of belligerent control, in the course of which
experiments the defendant Milch, together with divers other persons, committed
murders, brutalities, cruelties, tortures, and other inhumane acts. Such
experiments included, but were not limited to, the following: (A) HIGH-ALTITUDE EXPERIMENTS. From about March 1942 to about August 1942 experiments were conducted at the Dachau concentration camp for the benefit of the German Air Force to investigate the limits of human endurance and existence at extremely high altitudes. The experiments were carried out in a low-pressure chamber in which the atmospheric conditions and pressure prevailing at high altitudes (up to 68,000 feet) could be duplicated. The experimental subjects were placed in the low-pressure chamber and thereafter the simulated altitude therein was |
