“Dr. Tauboeck is, according to his education, a natural scientist with additional specialized studies in plant chemistry. His medical education is confined to histology, physiology, physiological chemistry, immunology, and pharmacology. By virtue of his education, he calls himself ‘a specialist in this field’, i. e., in the field of medicamental sterilization. I should like to stress the fact that the title ‘specialist’ in the field of sterilization presupposes considerable medical and in particular gynecological knowledge, which generally may be acquired only in a complete study of medicine or a penetrating study over several years in the materia medica.

“The affidavit of Dr. Tauboeck in several places lacks that critical attitude which is so necessary in scientific questions, especially if they are discussed under oath. Dr. Tauboeck states, for example, under point 5, that caladium seguinum was used as a means of sterilization by the natives of Brazil. He calls this assertion of the Indians, which has been reported in literature, a fact. Under point 6 he calls the reports from Brazil vague, only to assert literally several lines further on that ‘the Brazilian natives have already reached castration effects with an arrow wound, i. e., with an intramuscular injection’. This assertion is not proved, and is therefore, in my opinion, out of place in an affidavit. Furthermore Dr. Tauboeck makes a large number of apodictic assertions, for which he brings no direct proof whatever and which he tries to strengthen with the help of absolutely impermissible generalizations of the examples listed under points 7 a-d. Such analogical conclusions are not permissible in a serious scientific explanation, the more so since also the examples brought by him are by no means unobjectionable. Moreover, Dr. Tauboeck, under point 8, draws a conclusion from the experiments by Madaus and Koch, which can only be based on an insufficient knowledge of these experiments. He writes literally: ‘This bitter substance was lacking in the plants of the firm Madaus, the use of the pressed juice for feeding was accomplished there without any irritation of the pharyngeal mucous membranes or the tongue.’ According to the evidence on hand, Madaus and Koch administered the pressed juice through probing, no doubt in order to avoid this very irritation.

“These findings may be further enlarged upon by attentive reading of Dr. Tauboeck’s statement. I, therefore, do not consider Dr. Tauboeck to be qualified as a scientific expert in this question.”

Conclusion of the Defense:

The affidavit of Karl Tauboeck produced at the end of the case-in-chief cannot alter the fact that it is impossible to sterilize or castrate human beings with caladium seguinum.

d. Evidence

Prosecution Documents
Pros. Ex.
Doc. No.No.Description of DocumentPage
NO-3963528Extracts from affidavit of Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Tauboeck, 18 June 1947, concerning the development of, and experiments with sterilization drugs.[710]
NO-035142Letter from Pokorny to Himmler, October 1941, concerning a sterilization drug to be used against Germany’s enemies.[713]
NO-036143Letter from Himmler, 10 March 1942, to Pohl (initiated by Rudolf Brandt) concerning a sterilization drug and suggesting further research on criminals.[714]
NO-038147Letter from Rudolf Brandt to Pohl, June 1942, transmitting an inquiry by Himmler as to the progress made with experiments for medical sterilization.[715]
NO-046a148Letter from Pohl to Himmler, 3 June 1942, concerning the development of a sterilization drug by the firm of Dr. Madaus and Co.[716]
NO-046b149Letter from Rudolf Brandt to Pohl, 11 June 1942, asking him on behalf of Himmler to set up a large hothouse for the development of a sterilization drug.[717]
NO-039153Letter from Gund to Himmler, 24 August 1942, concerning research in medical sterilization and development of sterilization drugs.[717]
NO-203161Covering letter from Brack to Himmler, 28 March 1941, with report on experiments concerning sterilization and castration by X-rays.[719]
NO-205163Letter from Brack to Himmler, 23 June 1942, proposing sterilization of two to three million Jews.[721]
NO-206164Letter from Himmler (countersigned by Rudolf Brandt), 11 August 1942, addressed to Brack, concerning Himmler’s interest in sterilization experiments.[722]
NO-208166Letter from Blankenburg to Himmler, 29 April 1944, regarding employment of Dr. Horst Schumann on experiments concerning the influence of X-rays on human genital glands in connection with similar experiments conducted at concentration camp Auschwitz.[723]
NO-211169Letter from Professor Clauberg to Himmler, 30 May 1942 (referring to a letter from Rudolf Brandt), concerning the urgency of research into biological propagation and sterilization without operation, and draft of a “Research Institute for Biological Propagation.”[724]
NO-216170Memorandum of Rudolf Brandt, July 1942, on a discussion between Himmler, Gebhardt, Gluecks, and Clauberg concerning sterilization experiments conducted on Jewesses.[728]
NO-213171Letter from Rudolf Brandt to Clauberg, 10 July 1942, transmitting instructions of Himmler to perform sterilizations on Jewesses at concentration camp Ravensbrueck.[729]
NO-212173Letter from Professor Clauberg to Himmler, 7 June 1943, reporting on research in connection with the sterilization of women.[730]
Testimony
Extract from the testimony of the defendant Viktor Brack[732]

TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-3963

PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 528