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Vol. XVI, pp. 75–76, date of testimony, June 12, 1946<br />

Seyss­Inquart is questioned regarding his alleged protestations against<br />

deportations of Dutch Jews to Buchenwald <strong>and</strong> Mauthausen.<br />

Vol. XVI, pp. 220–21, date of testimony, June 14, 1946<br />

Heinz Max Hirschfeld, Secretary General of the Economic <strong>and</strong><br />

Agricultural Ministries in Nazi­occupied Netherl<strong>and</strong>s, is questioned on the<br />

deportation of 400 Jews from Amsterdam to Mauthausen in Feb. 1941. He<br />

is a witness in the case of Seyss­Inquart.<br />

III.29 <strong>Records</strong> of U.S. Military Tribunals at Nuremberg: Case I: U.S. v. Karl<br />

Br<strong>and</strong>t et al.<br />

This case was the first of the “Subsequent Proceedings” tried by the U.S.<br />

Government from 1946 to 1949 at Nuremberg. Also referred to as the<br />

“Medical Case” or “Doctors’ Trial,” it brought indictments against 23 per­<br />

sons charged with performing medical experiments on defenseless con­<br />

centration <strong>camp</strong> inmates against their will. Judgment confirmed that these<br />

experiments were not isolated acts of individual doctors <strong>and</strong> scientists, but<br />

the result of high­level policy <strong>and</strong> planning. Trial testimony <strong>and</strong> exhibits<br />

pertaining to the prosecution of SS Oberfuehrer Viktor Brack, Chief<br />

Administrative Officer in Hitler’s Chancellery, include a small amount of<br />

material on euthanasia programs at Mauthausen <strong>and</strong> Hartheim Castle. For<br />

the trial testimony, see Official Transcript, Court No. 1, May 16, 1947<br />

(Entry 2, box 11, location: 190/11/15/02). The following trial exhibits are<br />

described as part of the IMT Evidence Files (see III.34 below): NO 426 (affi­<br />

davit by Viktor Brack), NO 1007 (Prosecution Exhibit 413), <strong>and</strong> NO 2429<br />

(Prosecution Exhibit 498).<br />

III.30 <strong>Records</strong> of the U.S. Military Tribunals at Nuremberg: Case IV: U.S.<br />

v. Oswald Pohl et al.<br />

The Oswald Pohl case brought to trial 18 leading officers of the SS<br />

Economic <strong>and</strong> Administration Main Office (SS Wirtschafts und Verwalt­<br />

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