BELSEN TRIALS
Experiments On Women LONDON, October 3. When the trials of SS guards was resumed at Luneburg, the court began hearing 140 affidavits. Several of the accused are now showing signs of strain, but Kramer appears unmoved. In an affidavit, a French Jewess. Renee Erman. told how experiments were carried out on women at Auschwitz by SS doctors, and how blood was taken from women for soldiers at the front. Young Greek girls were used for sterilisation experiments under a powerful X-ray machine. Those who survived were operated on. and death usually followed in four or five days. Erman described how other women inmates were tortured with electric hotplates applied to the stomach.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23323, 5 October 1945, Page 5
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