Nazi Euthanasia Acquittals
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) FRANKFURT, May 24. A West German court yesterday found three doctors not guilty of having assisted in murder through their participation in the Nazi mercy-killing programme.
The verdict in the sevenmonth trial was greeted by applause from spectators in the crowded courtroom. Dr. Aquilin Ullrich, aged 53, Dr. Heinrich Bunke, aged 52 and Dr. Klaus Endruweit, aged 53, had been accused of asslting in the murder by gassing of thousands of mentally ill patients consigned to death by the Nazi Government in 1940 and 1941. The Nazi mercy-killing programme was designed, to rid
Germany of the mentally ill. It was stopped under pressure from the German churches in 1941.
The three men were acquitted only because of personal factors in their cases, said the judge. He said they were younger and inexperienced and the killings in 1940 and 1941 took place at a time when moral standards were defective. The doctors believed what they were told by their teachers.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31378, 25 May 1967, Page 13
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