Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi who was Hitler’s Governor of Austria and later of the Netherlands, today told the International War Crimes Tribunal that “for a time” he tolerated sterilization of male Jews in Holland. “It was voluntary,” he declared, testifying in his own defense.
He said that the shorthand record, according to which he admitted that the idea of sterilization was his own, was faulty work on the stenographer’s part. After a complaint from a Christian church he had investigated sterilization of Jewish women and finding it a complex operation he ordered it stopped, he declared.
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