GIVEN LETHAL DOSES
GIPSIES AT AUSCHWITZ USED FOR EXPERIMENTS LONDON, Oct. 1. Medical experiments, which were fatal to the victims, were described by a Jewish doctor, Charles Bendel, at the trial of the S.S. guards at Luneburg. He told the court that subjects for experiments were drawn from gipsies at Auschwitz, where the camp doctor, Mengele, attempted to discover a formula to ensure that mothers would bear twins. The research work included injections, for which Mengele always used lethal doses, because he preferred to examine the victims after death. One thousand gipsies out of 11,000 survived in Auschwitz; the others died in the gas chamber or the crematorium.
The prosecutor's list of witnesses is nearing its end, but more than 100 affidavits have not yet been presented.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25964, 3 October 1945, Page 8
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