EXPERIMENTS ON HUMANS
EVIDENCE AT TRIAL OF CAMP STAFF
(Rec. 7 p.m.) HAMBURG. January 21. Dr. Rolf Rosenthal, one of the 16 members of the staff of the Ravensbruck women’s concentration camp on trial for atrocities, admitted experiments on inmates. He testified that he also made anti-gas gangrene tests by an incision of his own leg. The experiments were in the interests of humanity. \ Polish women who had already been condemned to death were selected, and told they would be reprieved if they submitted to the tests. The women did not resist it because it had already been talked over with them.
“I had been working on animals, seeking an antidote for gas gangrene, but it was quite a new idea to experiment on humans. We had an order from either Hitler or Himmler, and we hoped to find an antodite to protect all our fighting forces.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25090, 23 January 1947, Page 7
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