English Translation

52 - 36 - Hochberger is assumed to have been generous in the diagnosis in former Czechoslovakia, that the indication for the interruption of pregnancy was also treated laxer than today, but all expert witnesses have indicated that a unanimous assurance and clarification of the diagnosis was necessary by a careful examination, as it could by no means be achieved by the examination used by the accused in the short time without a wall. According to the results of the evidence, the number of women examined by the defendant Dr. Hochberger has been physically healthy and showed no symptoms, e.g. only minor ones, which could not justify an interruption of the pregnancy. The fact that none of the female witnesses heard after years and often even after serious births did not experience any aggravation of the diseases previously found by the accused Dr. Hochberger indicates that the diseases listed in the testimonies of Dr. Hohenberger were at least largely exaggerated, if not invented at all. According to the good of the medical experts, the majority of the certificates issued by Dr. Hochberger are regarded as mere favors. 5.) The accused Jew Dr. Günther Israel Baum is charged with having two independent acts in the period from l.Jänner 1938 to 1.9.1938 as an assistant to the co- sued Jew Drs. Kafka knowingly helped to commit the crime of commercial abortion through advice and action. The witnesses Alice Schlindwein née von Karsten and Hildegard Wegener appeared in January and in August l938 with the accused Jew Dr. Baum in his ordination in Berlin, Kurfürstendamm, where he was working as a gynaecologist. Both women felt pregnant at that time and took part in the fight against abortion.