GRUESOME CRIMES
GERMAN DOCTORS GUILTY CONCENTRATION CAMP EXPERIMENTS FRANKFURT, Aug. 19. The War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg found 15 of 23 doctors, including Karl Brandt, Hitler’s personal physician, and Herta Oberhause, a woman physician i at Ravensbruck camp, “ chiefly responsible for experiments on human guinea pigs. The remaining eight i'were acquitted of war crimes but one (was found guilty of being a member -of the S.S. . The 23‘also included Siegfried Handloser, medical chief of the German armed forces and Oskar Schroeder. chief of the Luftwaffe’s medical services. i „ _ Evidence was given of gruesome exoeriments 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 ancj infection with jaundice and spotted fever. , ,' The sentences are expected to-mor-row *
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26545, 21 August 1947, Page 7
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