https://www.afp.com/en/news/826/new-french-film-raises-ghosts-nazi-medical-horrors-doc-yl4n91
Back to Auschwitz where my family perished.
OVER 70 YEARS AGO but the Pain and Horrors slowly claw their way into our consciousness.
THE WELL RESPECTED LAWYER from THE WELL RESPECTED LAW FIRM of ____ ___&______ failed my mother, my family and me.
From Link
"Cymes, both of whose Polish-born grandfathers perished at Auschwitz, said he had little idea how extensive Nazi medical experiments had been until he started his own investigation.
"I knew about doctors like Josef Mengele and Carl Clauberg and I thought they were two or three others like that, but then I discovered how vast the phenomenon was," he told AFP.
His eyes were opened when he began looking in detail at the Nuremberg trials of 23 doctors which began in 1946, and in particular a postwar account of the Nazis' activities by the French naval physician, Francois Bayle.
His now almost forgotten book was a "mine of information", Cymes said. "He noted down everything he heard, it's encyclopaedic, an enormous piece of work".
When he came to write his own book Cymes said he tried to use his medical knowledge to "describe what the victims would have felt so that people would realise the suffering of these (human) guinea pigs".
- Ethics turned upside down -
Nearly 70 percent of German doctors were members of the Nazi party, according to Cymes' documentary.
From 1933 onwards when Hitler came to power, medical ethics "were turned upside down", Cymes said. "The individual was nothing, the people was everything."
The small number of doctors tried for war crimes at Nuremberg either worked in concentration camps or used prisoners for medical experiments of "unspeakable cruelty", said Telford Taylor, the prosecutor at the trials.
Others took part in the "Aktion T4" programme to "eliminate people were considered to carry hereditary illnesses", said Sorbonne historian Johann Chapoutot, who reckons that between 70,000 and 200,000 died in the push between 1941 and 1945.
In the film, Cymes used testimony from experts such as Evelyne Shuster, of the University of Pennsylvania, and the surgeon and historian Yves Ternon from the University of Montpellier to show the scale of the cruelty and slaughter.
He concentrated on the atrocities committed by Karl Gebhardt, the personal physician of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, and his assistant Dr Herta Oberheuser.
But he also noted how the head of the "Aktion T4" programme, Viktor Brack, wanted to sterilise all Jews using X-rays, which he thought "be good value for money", writing to Himmler that it could be "carried out on several thousand subjects in a very short time".
While Sigmund Rascher, the SS doctor at the Dachau camp near Munich, tested how the body stood up to the cold and a lack of oxygen.
Cymes said that the documentary and the investigation into Hirt will not be the end of his inquiries.
"The subject is very personal for me and even though it is psychologically hard maybe I will continue digging for other films," he said."
My aunt, my mother's sister left behind in the Auschwitz infirmary when my mother had to take the very rare opportunity to escape Auschwitz. Auscgwitz and Naziz forever changed my mother's state of mind...and this allowed THE WELL RESPECTED LAWYER of the WELL RESPECTED LAW FIRM ________ ________ & ________ to exploit my mother and me (IMO) and to give most of my mother's assets, to a Cincinnati Foundation in which she seemed to have a personal interest....and much gold and diamond jewelry just disappeared. Not yet accounted for. Likely never to be accounted for....
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