Dr. Herta Oberhauser, a woman physician who was convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg in 1947 and reinstated as a doctor by West German authorities, lost her physician’s license today after a protest by a British medical leader.
Dr. Oberhauser was sentenced to 20 years for torturing and killing Jewish women victims at the Ravensbruck concentration camp and was released after five years. Following her reinstatement, she had practiced medicine near Kiel.
Last month, Dr. Eric Townsend told a British Medical Association meeting in Birmingham, England, that the reinstatement was a “cynical affront to the ideals of the practice of medicine. ” He called her a “fanatical Nazi” who had volunteered for concentration camp duties.
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