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AN ENCLOSURE TO
DO NOT WAR
SEVENTH ARMY INTERROGATION CENTER
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1. SOURCE
-GENERALARZT (GEN OF MEDICAL CORPS) PROF DR ERNST RODENWALD
Dr RODENWALD is a 66-yoar old HEIDELBERG University professor who is aoquaintod
with leading medical scientists " throughout the world. Ho appears to have an open,
honest charactor, and to abhor falsehood. Although he admires HITLER's social policy,
he disagrees with most of the National Socialist principles because of his
religious beliefs (Roman Catholic) and his humanitarian sentiments, and ho cannot
understand why the Gorman loadors do not stop the war, since it is obviously lost
fn . Germany. Nevertheless ho still considors himsolf bound to the Present govornmant
by his military oath of allegiance to HITLER.
The Profossor- bocamo a Party =mbar in 1932, while living in BATAVIA, Java,
but whoa ho discovered that the Party was trying to force a political policy on
tho "BUND DER AUSLANDSDEUTSCHEN", he quit. the Party, novor to ontor it again.
Tlis attitude was hold against him, andlieohcountorod difficulties Wheh ho roturno0
to Gormahy, although ho was permitted to cbritinuo his scientific research without
molestation&
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Dr RODENWALD is proparod to contribute his services as a hygiene scientist
ausist the Allied authorities, and is also willing to place his laboratory and
roeoarch center completely at their dispoeal. It is possible that he has boon influenced
in making this decision by his anxiety to reinstate himeolf:in tho'good
*graces - of tho•Notherlapds'Gavt, which was paying him h pomsion boforo the war._
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II. HISTORY AND MOVEMENTS
1897 Student at the Military Medical Academy, BERLIN.
1907 . Student at the Institue for Marine and Tropical Dieeaaes, HAMBURG.
10 *Official govt doctor in Togoland, Africa: .
15 Medical advisor on hygiene to the Fifth Turkish Army, with TurkiSh rank
Of Major.
19 Left the Army to finish his doctorate at HEMELBERO.UMiversity
21 Medical advisor on hygiene in Netherlands East Indies.
26 . Medical Inspector, East Java.
34 Returned to Germany as Prof of Hygiene at HEIDELBERG.
39 Called to XII Army Corps.
40- CO - of the inetitute for Tropical Medicine, BERLIN,
45 but continued as professor at,HEIDELBERG. •
41 With an anti-malaria mobile laboratory train in Italy and the Balkans.
43 Promoted to GENERALARZT.
III. BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
Source claims that he never heard of any experiments-in this field. He mnphasizeu
that he was strictly a specialist in hygiene and tropical diseases. He states
that when the question of BW was raised at an official dinner for Army dootors in
1945, all present agreed that this type of warfare was impracticable owing to the
danger of contaminating friendly troops... In this connection he cites the case
of Australian troops who brought dysentery to the Allied units attacking the DAR-
DANELLES in 1917 ... The resulting epidemic forced the Allies to withdraw, but the
Gernsm troops were also contaminated, and they lost half their numerical strength.
Source states that none of his fellow university profossor with whom he is acquainted
would be willing to lend aseistance in the field of BW. -;
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