SIX DOCTORS TO DIE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25269, 22 August 1947, Page 7

SIX DOCTORS TO DIE

“ MERCY KILLINGS ” IN GERMANY EIGHT OTHERS TO BE IMPRISONED NUREMBERG, August 20. A United Slates war crimes tribunal sentenced to death Karl Brandt, Hitler’s personal physician, who, with 14 others, was found guilty of war crimes, including “guinea pig” experiments and “mercy killings.” Others sentenced to death were Karl Gebhardt. Himmler’s personal doctor and president of the German Red ’Cross. Rudolph Brandt, Himmler’s administrative adjutant, Joachim Mugrowsky. chief of the S.S. Hygienic Institute, Viktor Brack, administrative chief of the Reich Chancellery and Waldemar Hoven, chief doctor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Other sentences were: Life imprisonment—Siegfried Handloser, chief of the Wehrmacht Medical Services: Gerhardt Rose, chief of the Department of Tropical Medicine; Karl Genzken, chief of the Waffen S.S. Medical Services; Fritz Fischer, assistant physician to Himmler. Twenty years’ imprisonment.—Herman Becker-Freysing. chief of the Department of Aviation Medicine; Herta Oberhauser, physician of the Ravensbruck concentration camp for women and the only woman among the guilty. Fifteen years’ imprisonment.—Wilhelm Beiglboeck, a Luftwaffe consultant. Helmut Poppendick was acquitted of war crimes out was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for being a member of the S.S. In experiments in Hitler’s “mercy killing" programme 60.000 to 80,000 people were exterminated.