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[tem…] porary shortage of
any preparation at the Pharmabuero Munich." |
Finally, the prosecution's assertion that this letter was signed by
Dr. Mertens is false, as is shown by the same document.*
Consequently,
the prosecution's assertions concerning the Dr. Vetter-Dachau complex are
refuted, especially since no reports by Dr. Vetter concerning the application
of the remedies sent to him have been presented.
Dr. Vetter later
received preparation B 1034 from Leverkusen and, as is shown by the evidence
presented, used it in Monowitz and Mauthausen. In this connection the
witnesses, Dr. Mertens, Dr. Koenig, and Dr. Luecker, will certify:
a. that Dr. Vetter, whom they knew as a conscientious doctor,
urgently requested his colleagues in Leverkusen for help in combating the
typhus epidemic;
b. that this preparation, which had already
been tested by many other units, was given to him together with the
exposé;
c. that preparations were never given to him
which had not already been tested in other German hospitals and medical
centers;
d. that on the basis of experience, this preparation
could not cause harm to the health of any patient insofar as it was humanly
possible to judge.
e. that Dr. Vetter never stated or reported
that this preparation was ever applied to patients other than therapeutically;
f. that above all, he never mentioned the treatment of healthy
persons who had been artificially infected;
g. that Dr. Vetter
in his reports or conversations never mentioned that he had treated
concentration camp inmates with this preparation, and consequently it was
impossible for Dr. Mertens to report something to Elberfeld that might have led
to the suspicion of its being misused.
In this connection I refer to
the statement of the prosecution witness, Pohl, according to which the IG had
nothing to do with either the medical care of the concentration camp inmates or
with providing medicines for Monowitz; moreover that the works management had
no influence with regard to the appointment of camp physicians or their
treatment methods; finally, that the camp physicians were under strictest
orders of secrecy.
The prosecution has linked Dr. Hoerlein with the
therapeutic experiments with methylene blue, which Dr. Ding — according to
the Ding diary — is supposed to have carried out in January 1943 in the
Buchenwald concentration camp. |
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* Document NI-9403, a
letter from Scientific Section I, of Bayer, to Dr. Vetter at Dachau, was signed
by Drs. Luecker and Koenig.
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