Izak Gruanberg, a Polish Jew, testified today before a U.S. military court trying 62 officials of the Mauthausen concentration camp that he had been forced to throw living persons into the camp crematoriums. Gruanberg said that an 88 doctor named Willy Robat has ordered him to do so.
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