English Translation

51 -35 - and Dr. Wagner in order to ensure his diagnoses would not have been necessary. The indications derived from the prepared diagnoses show in their formulation all shades from the strict and absolute indication for the interruption of pregnancy to the relative and up to the requirement of a possible observation. According to the expert opinion of the medical experts, to whom the court has fully affiliated, of the 74 indication tests 5l issued by it, only as so-called pseudo-indication tests or as pure complacency tests, which are also from the purely scientific medical point of view, already with regard to the plague position for example a progressive lung tip tuberculosis completely insufficient. In most cases, the accused Dr. Hochberger, alone through a one-time physical examination, has provided a strict indication for the immediate interruption of pregnancy. Not in a single case has it emerged after the result of the evidence that these diagnoses had been supported by using further examination methods. If the defendant, Dr Hochberger, considers that his behaviour was impeccable and that in Czechoslovakia at that time the investigations he made were entirely sufficient to ensure the diagnosis and thus also to the broad conclusions and indications, this admission is by no means valid. On the contrary, on the basis of the Sudeten-German doctors Dr. Schmiedl, Dr. Poppenberger, Dr Knöspel and lecturer Dr. Deberauer, who were heard as expert witnesses, the court considered that the indication for the interruption of pregnancy could not be provided even at the time due to such poor investigations. All of these witnesses were requested to carry out an X-ray search, at least in case of suspicion of TBC. Although in favour of the defendant Dr. Hochberger