Doctors from Hell The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

by Spitz, Vivien

• ISBN13: 9781591810322
• ISBN10: 1591810329
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Sentient Publications

Summary

A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors. This is the account of 22 men and 1 woman and the torturing and killing by experiment they authorized in the name of scientific research and patriotism. Doctors from Hell includes trial transcripts that have not been easily available to the general public and previously unpublished photographs used as evidence in the trial. The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg, where she lived for two years while working on the trial. Once a Nazi sympathizer tossed bombs into the dining room of the hotel where she lived moments before she arrived for dinner. She takes us into the courtroom to hear the dramatic testimony and see the reactions of the defendants to the proceedings. This landmark trial resulted in the establishment of the Nuremberg code, which set the guidelines for medical research involving human beings. A significant addition to the literature on World War II and the Holocaust, medical ethics, human rights, and the barbaric depths to which human beings can descend.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Frederick R. Abrams	xv
Introduction	1	(138)
1. October 1946, Westover Air Field, Massachusetts	7	(12)
The U.S. War Department Recruitment	12	(1)
Orientation and Boarding the Plane	13	(1)
Emergency over the North Atlantic	14	(1)
Safe Landing in Paris	15	(1)
Boarding the Douglas C-47 Skytrain for Frankfurt	16
The Final Anxiety-Ridden Flight 1	7	(12)
2. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials	19	(8)
History's First International Criminal Trials	20	(2)
The Major Nazi Leaders' Trial	22	(1)
The Pretrial Gathering of Evidence	23	(2)
November 6, 1946	25	(2)
3. The Subsequent Proceedings	27	(14)
My First Nuremberg Home	28	(3)
The Palace of Justice	31	(2)
My Raw Orientation	33	(3)
Meeting My Co-workers	36	(1)
Daughter of the Chicago German Bund Leader	37	(1)
The Court Reporting Process	38	(3)
4. Case No. 1, The Medical Case	41	(24)
Tribunal Members	41	(1)
The Arraignments	42	(5)
The Defendants	47	(4)
A Respite from Initial Shock	51	(1)
Grand Hotel	52	(3)
Thanksgiving Day 1946	55	(1)
December 9, 1946	56	(4)
Crimes of Mass Extermination	60	(1)
Illegal Euthanasia	60	(2)
Protection of Animals	62	(1)
December 10, 1946	62	(3)
5. High-Altitude Experiments	65	(20)
Autopsy Report	69	(2)
Testimony of Walter Neff	71	(8)
Testimony of Defendant Rudolf Brandt	79	(2)
Testimony of Defendant Dr. Romberg	81	(4)
6. Freezing Experiments	85	(18)
Women Used For Rewarming	96	(7)
7. Malaria Experiments	103	(12)
Extracts from the Testimony of Father Leo Miechalowski	106	(5)
Extracts from the Testimony of August H. Vieweg	111	(4)
8. Bone, Muscle, and Nerve Regeneration and
Bone Transplantation Experiments	115	(5)
Extracts from the Testimony of Vladislava Karolewska	120	(12)
Extract from the Testimony of Expert Witness Dr. Leo Alexander	132	(3)
9. Mustard Gas Experiments	135	(4)
10. Sulfanilamide Experiments	139	(18)
Testimony of Jadwiga Dzido	144	(9)
Testimony of Dr. Leo Alexander	153	(4)
11. Sea Water Experiments	157	(18)
High Drama in the Courtroom	160	(15)
12. My Life in Nuremberg	175	(12)
No. 8 Hebelstrasse	177	(4)
Another Historical House on Habelstrasse	181	(1)
Growing Numb to What Humanity Meant	182	(2)
Nazi Terrorists Bomb the Grand Hotel Dining Room	184	(3)
13. Epidemic Jaundice (Hepatitis)	187	(4)
Extract of Testimony by Dr. Karl Brandt	188	(3)
14. Sterilization	191	(8)
Sterilization by X-rays	194	(3)
Denial Testimony by Viktor Brack	197	(2)
15. Typhus Experiments	199	(10)
Testimony by Dr. Eugen Kogon	201	(3)
Denial Testimony of Dr. Rose	204	(5)
16. Poison Experiments	209	(4)
Testimony of Dr. Eugen Kogon	210	(3)
17. Incendiary Bomb Experiments	213	(6)
Testimony of Dr. Eugen Kogon	215	(4)
18. Phlegmon, Polygal, & Phenol Experiments	219	(12)
Phlegmon (Inflammation and Infection) Experiments	219	(5)
Polygal (Blood Coagulant) Experiments	224	(2)
Phenol (Gas Oedema) Experiments	226	(5)
19. Jewish Skeleton Collection	231	(4)
20. Euthanasia	235	(12)
Protest by the Bishop of Limburg	237	(1)
Prosecution Exhibit 428	238	(9)
21. Medical Ethics	247	(10)
Permissible Medical Experiments	253	(2)
Statement of IMT Chief Prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson	255	(2)
22. Judgments and Sentences in the Medical Case	257	(12)
Extracts from Final Statements of Defendants	258	(6)
Sentences-July 20, 1947	264	(1)
Petitions and Executions	265	(4)
23. Going Home	269	(14)
Culture Shock	272	(2)
Appointment as Reporter in the U.S. House of Representatives	274	(1)
Holocaust Television Series	275	(1)
The President's Commission on the Holocaust	276	(1)
Days of Remembrance	277	(1)
Meeting Hitler's Court Reporter	278	(5)
24. Confronted by Holocaust Denial	283	(8)
Wounds Reopened	284	(1)
The Holocaust Awareness Institute	284	(1)
Meeting Elie Wiesel	285	(1)
Interview by the Steven Spielberg SHOAH Foundation	285	(1)
Confronted by Holocaust Denial Again	286	(1)
More Challenges	287	(1)
More Holocaust Denial	288	(1)
Appearance on Broadway with Tony Randall	289	(2)
Afterword	291	(4)
Appendix: Statistics on the Medical Case	295	(2)
Notes	297	(12)
Bibliography	309	(4)
Acknowledgments	313	(4)
About the Author	317