A French Jewish doctor, Robert Levy, who was compelled by the Nazis to work in the hospital words at the Oswiecim death camp today told the U.S. military tribunal trying 23 Nazi doctors of the effects on thousands of Jews of experiments carried out there.
Another witness declared that the Nazis sterilized as many as 1,000 Jewish women a day during 1943. Sterilization resulted from injections of an irritating solution during routine gynecological examinations without the victims being aware of it.
Dr. Levy was in charge of a Jewish ward where the major portion of the cases were men and women who had been sterilized and badly burned by X-rays. Most of the burn cases developed into cancer, Levy said, adding that all the sterilized patients eventually became physical wrecks. He said that German doctors made periodic checks of his ward, sending thin and weak patients to the gas chamber.
The prosecution also introduced evidence proving that sterilization experiments were part of a premeditated plan to wipe out the Jewish people. Other witnesses testified that Jewish prisoners were used in fatal experiments including high altitude tests, malaria research and the effects of drinking sea water.
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