TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-571
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 285
1943 WORK REPORT FOR DEPARTMENT FOR TYPHUS AND VIRUS RESEARCH
Weimar-Buchenwald, January 1944.
Hygiene Institute of the Waffen SS
Department for Typhus and Virus Research
Work Report for the Year 1943
I. Division for Typhus and Virus Research, Clinical Section
| 1 December 42 to 20 February 43 | Experiment with typhus vaccines “EM” of the Behring Works, carried out on 20 experimental subjects. |
| 10 January to 20 February | Experiment with typhus therapeutics, Acridine and Methylene Blue, carried out on 47 experimental subjects. |
| 10 January to 17 May | Tests with yellow fever vaccines, carried out on 435 experimental subjects. |
| 25 January to 28 April | Experiment with typhus vaccines “Riga” and “Zuerich,” carried out on 40 experimental subjects. |
| 24 March to 20 April | Performance of a large-scale experiment according to the scheme of the Hygiene Institute of the Waffen SS, carried out by SS Standartenfuehrer Lecturer Dr. Mrugowsky, with smallpox, typhoid, paratyphus A and B, cholera, typhus, and diphtheria, on 45 experimental subjects. |
| 31 March to 11 April | Experiment with typhus therapeutics Acridine Granulate and Rutenol, carried out on 40 persons. |
| 11 April to 24 May | Preliminary experiments with fresh blood infected with typhus for the purpose of investigating an infallible method of infection, carried out on 41 persons. |
| 11 April—not yet terminated | Infections with typhus so far applied to 47 persons. |
| 24 April to 1 June | Experiment with typhus therapeutics Acridine Granulate (2) and Rutenol (2) carried out on 40 experimental subjects. |
| 28 May to 9 September | Experiment with typhus vaccines “Asid,” “Asid-Adsorbat,” and “Weigl” carried out on 70 persons. |
| 10 June to 8 August | Experiment with typhoid therapeutics “Otrhomin,” carried out on 40 experimental subjects. |
| 8 November—not yet terminated | Gangrene—high immunization experiment, carried out on 15 experimental subjects. |
| 19 November—not yet terminated | Experiments with burns by means of phosphorus rubber incendiary bombs carried out on 5 persons. |
| 21 November—not yet terminated | Control of blood conservation. |
| 23 December to 31 December | Special experiment carried out on 4 persons. |
II. Division for Typhus and Virus Research, Production of Vaccines