CROSS-EXAMINATION
Dr. Servatius (Attorney for defendant Karl Brandt):
Witness, yesterday you testified that voluntary consent is the first prerequisite for human experimentation. Previously you had said that you yourself had been reluctant to apply for volunteers. Is that so?
Witness Dr. Ivy: No.
Q. Didn’t you say just now that you didn’t want to ask your students to volunteer but left that to other agencies so that your authority might not constitute some form of coercion?
A. Yes, that is insofar as my personal direct request to the individual is concerned, I thought, because of my position as a professor, it might unduly influence the student to say yes.
Q. You were probably of the opinion that your authority might persuade him to do something that he otherwise would not do.
A. Yes—through individual contact.
Q. I say, Professor, don’t you know that in general the volunteer aspect of the person’s consent has been under suspicion?