Nazi Experiments For Humanity
(Rec. 11.30) HAMBURG. Jan. 21 Dr Rolf Rosenthal, one of 16 members of the staff at Ravensbruck women's concentration camp, who is on trial for atrocities, admitted having made experiments on the inmates.
He also testified that he made antigas gangrene tests by an incision in his own leg.
The experiments were in the interests of humanity. Polish women, who had been condemned to death, were selected and told they would be reprieved if they submitted to the tests. The women did not resist 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,” he said, j ,; \Ve had the order from either | Hitler or Himmler and we hoped to I find an antidote to protect all our | fighting forces.”
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Northern Advocate, 23 January 1947, Page 5
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