Germans give former SS doctor accused of killing 900 children a medal

UK Daily Mail ^ | 5/26/08 | Allan Hall

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Hans-Joachim Sewering: Accused of mass-murder

A former SS doctor accused of sending 900 sick children to their deaths under the Nazi euthanasia programme has been awarded a German medical association's highest honour.

The decision comes as Jewish organisations continue to press Germany to put 92-year-old Hans-Joachim Sewering on trial for mass murder.

He was given the Guenther-Budelmann medal by the German Federation of Internal Medicine for "unequalled services in the cause of freedom of the practice and the independence of the medical profession and to the nation's health system".

Sewering was a doctor at a tuberculosis clinic near Munich before World War II.

He allegedly signed orders sending 900 German Catholic children from the clinic to a "healing centre".

In fact, it was a killing centre carrying out a secret Nazi policy of murdering the handicapped who were declared "useless eaters" by the Nazis before the war.

Many of the Nazi participants in the programme went on to become death camp commandants and high-ranking officials of the Holocaust.

Four nuns who broke their vow of silence on the recommendation of the Archbishop of Munich in 1993 claim to have witnessed Sewering ordering the transfer of the children and signing documents to that effect.

The U.S. Anti-Defamation League, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and an independent committee seeking Sewering's prosecution claim he was an enthusiastic supporter of the euthanasia programme.

He has admitted to membership of the SS, an elite Nazi group, claiming he joined for "social reasons", but has always denied being responsible for euthanasia.

Sewering, former head of the German doctors' association, was designated in 1992 as chairman of the World Medical Association but had to withdraw the following year under international pressure because of the accusations against him.

Wolfgang Wesiack, president of the German Federation of Internal Medicine, said Sewering was honoured because "he deserved it".

He refused to talk about the Nazi allegations.

The case illustrates Germany's reluctance to pursue alleged Nazi war criminals.

Despite a flurry of trials after the war and a few in the early 1950s, Germany largely forgot about former Nazis, many of whom thrived in politics, the judiciary and the police.

A spokesman for the Committee to Bring Dr Hans-Joachim Sewering to Justice said he "symbolises the lingering legacy of Nazi medicine and the failure of a large part of the German medical community to take responsibility for their acts in the Third Reich".

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In fact, it was a killing centre carrying out a secret Nazi policy of murdering the handicapped who were declared "useless eaters" by the Nazis before the war.

If the culture of death wasn't so prominent, even a hint of this would keep him from getting an award.

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[Scotswife]

Florida should recruit this guy to run their hospices.

[wagglebee]

The Germans are now giving awards to the "pioneers" in the killing of "worthless eaters."

Nazi Euthanasia

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Translation please.

[sitetest]

He’d make a good Democrat presidential candidate.

Or, the way some were thinking this primary season, a good Republican one, too.

[SkyDancer]

Good - he can show it to all those other nazi’s who are in Hell what a great job he did .....

[traumer]

Und waz wrong wiz it ?

[SolidWood]

The Eugenic culture of death and nihilism is up and alive in Germany... and here as well. Disgusting.

claiming he joined (the Nazis) for "social reasons", but has always denied being responsible for euthanasia.

"Aber wir haben von nichts gewusst!"

[SolidWood]

Translation please.

"But the Germans have yet learned nothing. Why?"

[Radl]

Another one gets away with murder, just like those Turkish bastards.

[sionnsar]

(Approx:) But the Germans haven’t yet learned. WHy?

[narses]

But the Germans did not learn yet. Why?

[attiladhun2]

Germany embraced eugenics and the culture of death years before the Nazis took over. The eugenics program advocated by the Nazis was a principle reason the German intelligensia largely supported the regime.

[count-your-change]

And an SS officer who used slave labor from the concentration camps was promoted by the U.S. to be the head of a NASA department. It seems the smell of death wears off quickly.

[SolidWood]

German Federation of internal infernal Medicine for "unequalled services in the cause of freedom (yeah freedom) of the practice and the independence of the medical profession and to the nation's health system"( Hillary take notes).