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Concerning the prosecution's statement in this connection that, "In
September 1942, the defendants Hoerlein and Lautenschlaeger urged Mrugowsky to
test the therapeutic effects of the preparations 3582 'Acridine' and 'methylene
blue' on typhus," no evidence has been produced. I do not want to encroach upon
the territory of Dr. Lautenschlaeger's defense. As far as the preparation
methylene blue is concerned, the effects of which upon the causative agent of
typhus were discovered by Professor Kikuth of Elberfeld, we refer to the
exposé to be submitted which shows that methylene blue was not a
new preparation, but on the contrary, had been known and on the market
for decades, and as far as could be foreseen it could not have any harmful, but
rather some favorable, effects upon typhus patients.
Now, I am going to
skip the next sentences which I will submit to the Tribunal in writing, and
continue on page 19.
When a concrete deed is submitted to the judge for
examination, the personality of the perpetrator is only of secondary
importance. The psychological analysis is not essential for the causality of
what happened.
Here things are different. I take it that in the
Hoerlein case not even the evidence of objective causality can be submitted.
However, in view of the prosecution's attempt to create a sort of assumption by
construing certain peripheral connections with the aid of combinations, I am
compelled to throw more light on Professor Hoerlein's personality. Obviously,
it is the tendency of the prosecution to assume certain motives, such as greed
for power, National Socialistic attitude; and from them, draw conclusions of
individual readiness to leave the path of ethics.
In supplementation of
the evidence already submitted, I shall submit numerous affidavits from
Germans, Jews, and persons of foreign nationality. The result will be a picture
of a man who, during the bad years after 1933, preserved a courageous and noble
heart; a man to whom great injustice is done if one calls him, as did the chief
prosecutor, a "sickly spirit" and an "architect of the catastrophe." It is
contrary to any experience in life, and therefore cannot be accepted without
concrete counterevidence, that a man who devotes his life to the welfare of
humanity, who day and night reflects upon how he can ease the sufferings of his
fellow-men, can, at the same time, cold-heartedly do things or permit things
which would make the purpose of his life illusory.
In the "Neue
Zeitung" I read yesterday of the ceremonial award of the Nobel Prizes in
Stockholm. Dr. Gerhard Domagk, director of the pathological laboratory of the
Bayer concern, appeared for the presentation of the Nobel Prize awarded to him
in 1939 for discovery of the medical effects of sulfanilamide. Professor
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