Dr. Carl Clauberg, Nazi doctor who conducted sterilization experiments on Jewish women imprisoned at the Auschwitz extermination camp, is of sound mind and capable of standing trial, the Kiel prosecutor has been told in a formal opinion written by Dr. Reucker-Embden, chief physician at the Neustadt State Hospital where Dr. Clauberg is currently being held.
Dr. Clauberg, released some months ago when the Soviet Union freed thousands of German prisoners of war, publicly boasted of his role in the Nazi sterilization program. However, after public indignation had been registered throughout the world and after the Central Jewish Council of Germany had filed legal charges against him, the Nazi doctor prove to evade responsibility and trial on the grounds that he was “irresponsible” in a psychiatric and legal sense.
This contention Dr. Reucker-Embden has rejected, but she has recommended that Dr. Clabberg be continued in custody at the hospital rather than be returned to jail because of his age–57–and the long time he spent in Soviet prison camps. A motion by his, defense counsel that he be released from custody pending his trial was denied recently.
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