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1948: The condemned from the Doctors’ Trial
ExecutedToday.com ^ | June 2, 2010 | Headsman

Posted on 06/02/2021 5:41:30 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat

On this date in 1948, seven SS men were hanged at Germany’s Landsberg Prison, condemned for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the so-called Doctors Trial.

Four of the hanged were doctors; three were non-physicians who assisted them. Their trial (which included 16 others, variously acquitted or sentenced to prison terms) by an American military tribunal was a conscious attempt to establish criminal responsibility among the medical profession.

As prosecutor Telford Taylor* said in his opening statement.

To kill, to maim, and to torture is criminal under all modern systems of law. These defendants did not kill in hot blood, nor for personal enrichment. Some of them may be sadists who killed and tortured for sport, but they are not all perverts. They are not ignorant men. Most of them are trained physicians and some of them are distinguished scientists. Yet these defendants, all of whom were fully able to comprehend the nature of their acts, and most of whom were exceptionally qualified to form a moral and professional judgment in this respect, are responsible for wholesale murder and unspeakably cruel tortures.

It is our deep obligation to all peoples of the world to show why and how these things happened. It is incumbent upon us to set forth with conspicuous clarity the ideas and motives which moved these defendants to treat their fellow men as less than beasts.

One of several war crimes trials after the big Nuremberg Tribunal (and held in the same courtroom), the Doctors Trial dealt with the Third Reich’s Frankenstein lab of medical experimentation....

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1 posted on 06/02/2021 5:41:30 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

Reveled today, Harvard Medical says CRT should be applied by physicians in treating patients. People of color or minorities first! Its past time to stop this Marxist Madness!!! Press your Doctor on this NOW!


2 posted on 06/02/2021 6:22:27 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: CheshireTheCat
To kill, to maim, and to torture is criminal under all modern systems of law.

But yet these are now legal in most modern systems of law. It's called abortion.

3 posted on 06/02/2021 7:50:43 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Fauchi and the pharma people need a trial like this... !


4 posted on 06/02/2021 12:51:26 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: minnesota_bound

Reiner Fuellmich on Nuremberg 2: ‘In 2 to 3 weeks, big lawsuits will start’

https://greatreject.org/reiner-fuellmich-on-nuremberg2/


5 posted on 06/02/2021 1:08:20 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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Dr. Fritz Klein was perhaps the worst next Dr. Josef Mengele.

Both are roasting in Hell.

6 posted on 06/02/2021 2:14:41 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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