An investigation commission of the Vienna University’s Medical Department this week-end acquitted Dr. J. Zikowsky, head of the infections diseases department of its hospital of charges of performing unnecessary medical experiments on twenty Jewish refugee children last September.
Zikowsky was found not guilty because the incisions and lumbar punctures, which Jewish physicians had called unnecessary, were “entirely in accordance with medical regulations,” the commission’s statement said. The police then said they second no reason for further investigation.
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