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German Court Rejects Plea to Release Nazi Who Tortured Jewish Women

May 4, 1956
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The District Court in Kiel has rejected another appeal filed by Prof. Carl Clauberg, who abused and tortured thousands of Jewish women in the Auschwitz extermination camp by cruel medical experiments, against his continued imprisonment while penal investigations are proceeding.

Prof. Clauberg, who is held in Neumuenster jail, had been a Russian war prisoner until late last year. He was arrested after the Central Council of Jews in Germany lodged a criminal complaint charging him with “deliberately and continuously inflicting serious bodily harm.”

Prof. Clauberg, a major in the SS, was a gynecologist in Upper Silesia when he approached SS chief Heinrich Himmler with the request that Jewish women in concentration camps be made available to him for experiments with an immediate action method of sterilization he was developing. Himmler complied with his request.

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