Jewish doctors in Berlin are afraid to treat non-Jewish patients as a result of the case of Dr. Arno Philipstahl, a Jewish physician, which came to light today. Dr. Philipstahl was dragged from his office two hours after he had treated a Nazi woman. He was found murdered later in the day.
The woman, it was learned, had consulted Dr. Philipstahl and had boasted of her Nazi convictions. While prescribing medicine for her, the physician jokingly suggested that after taking the prescribed doses, she
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