NINETEEN NAZIS FOUND GUILTY OF GRUESOME EXPERIMENTS ON HUMANS
(Rec. 11.85 a.m.) FRANKFURT, August 19. The War Crimes Tribunal iiE Nuremberg found 19 of 23 doctors, including Karl Brandt, Hitler’s personal physician, and Herta Oberhause, a woman physician at Ravensbruek camp, “chiefly .responsible for experiments on human guinea pigs.” The 23 also included Siegfried Handloser, medical chief of the German armed forces and Oskar Schroeder. chief of the Luftwaffe’s medical services. Nineteen of the 23 were also found guilty of belonging to the S.S. Evidence was given of gruesome experiments in concentration camps, including the shooting of victims with poison bullets, high altitude experiments carried out by placing victims in pressure chambers without oxygen, spraying with mustard gas, sterilisation, and infection with jaundice and spotted fever.
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Evening Star, Issue 26184, 20 August 1947, Page 5
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