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transported to outfits. the germans came and asked if we were married. i was, but i didn't know what to say. then i admitted that i was married, i had to step aside. the others were immediately guessed, but we didn't know that we finally came to a beric of women. oh, with shaved heads and 2 phones. and then we came to the testing log below the list, we quickly realized what was in the store of go cloak
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with they were gruesome, painful treatments. beastly. the intense pain erased all feeling cal back now back could have just been please and done his research and mom car, but he thought he should be in the front row after i ah, my name is professor coll clobbered. i performed forced sterilizations from march 1943 to january, 1945. i subjected 280 women to trials. a 150 were sterilized.
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according to my method. in 1955, chancellor convert unknown, negotiated the return of 10000 german prisoners of war from soviet captivity, causing a sensation in the young federal republic of germany. here, gynecologist coleclo bag was among those freed. he soon became the subject of news reports. he too hoped to start anew in the new republic, but the central council of dues and germany fall charges against him in november 1955 of conducting medical trials on numerous female prisoners in our shreds. trials that lead to serious health consequences and even death. many victims could no longer be questioned,
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others were too ashamed to speak out. oh, the women who dare to testify was subjected to degrading procedures to medically verify their statements. german courts doubted their retorts. professor clawback had been a luminary in his field. k callback is ca glowed back made medical history in reproduction, research, ashley math, that fit very well with nazi ideology and politics, teacher 9, and that in able to him to perform these experiments. an o. schmidt's dig illegal height d, the facade lists a few. and as hopefully he enjoyed significant advantages. newton had gained a lot of personal privileges for the price of becoming a criminal. some po, push outs of out and
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the shrug a ball into it. i was born on january 7th, 1921. so on to the hospital, we were the 1st house in the street with the telephone until the 4th m house of a because i was about to be born on while. and my father was a merchant with the money for a telephone. so hub if my mother had 3 children, my normal daughter that i kinda, ah, does she have? i was born in warsaw and was very young when i came to brussels. so i did my parents migrated from eastern europe. we were a very, very happy family. citizen and for me, because you lose a copenhagen. i had
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a very good childhood in batman. we were very close back then in i was born in 1898 in ripoff news dulling and i started school in keel when i was 6 years old. i graduated in november 1916 and was drafted the next day. i began university off to i was freed as a p o w. i stuck medicine and keel humbug, and god's my dissertation dealt with death by an embolism and was recognized as very good scientific work.
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mm hm. oh yeah. when we lived in a very small apartment before the war in the 19th district, a working class area, paris i. e. e. my mother was in the resistance street, but still took care of me to pursue until she could no longer do both id e legacy, stay back then there was an organization that looked after children and placed them with families. a keep the series of follow the family a grocer organizes were thanks to them. i lived sometimes here, sometimes there with hotdog, whenever it became too dangerous. they took me further away. in the end,
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i lived in a small village near chateau tv called mall san pal, where i stayed until the end of the war. i grew up in hiding. oh ma'am good. oh oh. oh mia? ah, i met my wife when she was 19 she was brought to the women's hospital with tuberculosis related, ovarian swelling, on both sides. ah, at the end of her treatment, she told me she 1st hated me, then loved me. and one day i knew that if she ever gave herself to a man, it would be me. they married 5 years later,
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but since his wife was infertile, cloud back began an affair with his secretary is the guyan. she gave birth to 2 children and eventually lived with the cow backs in a 3 way relationship. my research during that period was very significant. i studied female hormones and the ministration cycle. i published a progesterone test that could confirm fertility in keeping with scientific practice, the test was called the cloud bag test. k clawback is human guides. i can't cloud back, certainly made medical history with his reproductive research. with the sharing company, i'll bite to summit of from a shilling. those were exciting is i build the foundation for producing synthetic estrogen and progesterone together with sharon
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called bomb. oh cool. yeah, of course. yes. hitler was already in power. not mom goble, after my birthday in january was i had to go back to school, talk to men or sure, look. and the teacher told me to sit down so and not talk to anyone him on flush, whitney month double. hitler was already having an impact and there were fewer kids in the class, but this was old us man attempt. and with me, my aunt emigrated with me after i finished the school into shula on easter austin, on dumb hats. she found an apartment for us in the netherlands, sim, woven oh,
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i'm come in, harlem and o. amelia g mail on may 10th, 1940. at germany invaded the netherlands to luxembourg, belgium, and france. the entire west. on the same day left off. where you could sit back t aquino, the people didn't realize them. what a danger hitler posed, who don't she give up, but we have been dealing with it since 1933. don't want to because we were hosting german refugees. but let, could you do that in spanish? refugees after 1936. yeah. really, really few years. but you don't good for the resistance. didn't start for me in 1940 when the belgium was invaded with song get hold of him. but in 1933, every chic said to does a div of song twice mad
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delish the surveys, there was a raid was and they tunnel all the jewish men and dog owns of buddha. we heard terrible screens from our neighbor's yard route said helen i had been researching fertility and infertility since 1925. mm. i started with the assumption that there wasn't yet a non surgical in fertility treatment or sterilization method. oh oh, professor clawback is considered one of the most important researchers in the field of ovarian hormones. most a professor, cloud bags,
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scientific research has been carried out and close cooperation with researchers from our central laboratory. oh yes, even i know these f u n g and he was one of the many gynecology, ha ha, ha ha. was talented in recognizing a situation and making discoveries by being in the right place at the right time listing. ok, thank you for the longest he came into the chemical industry support certainly played a role in what he developed. i have for blinked. my successes were widely recognized and also rewarded in the form of handsome fees from sharing the wall was the only reason i didn't make it to a university. is he money certainly made a career for himself and even unaided to medical director. but he had even greater admissions through on ah, himmler had heard of my plans. i was summoned to berlin on march 22, 1940 for
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a private talk with him. in the end, i told him about my problem of non surgical sterilization which i had been working on for 15 years. himmler asked me if my clinics were sufficiently equipped with research facilities. ready if not. ready he would set them up for me. ready thus tended us and theresa is this suited him other than the war of annihilation that the nazis were planning to finance and carrying out in eastern europe upon them to good crew em heights. further, without trying to supercede your decision, i would like to suggest that the necessary experiments as well as facilities be carried out in the auschwitz concentration camp heil hitler. you are very respectful professor clawback
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of student auschwitz. i'm come when i arrived at ashley, the commandant was not even 30 years old school in a black uniform and kept go on there was sure he was looking for women packed up the phone else grizzled. bish shopped, doesn't it? i didn't realize it at the time. i meant above me, but my husband said he'd never see me again or dish up cuz i told him to keep his chin up and could not give up permission. uh, he just shook his head. huh. no, no, no signal bonus, eat you. we didn't know where we were, have we had no idea what would happen to us as of if up be said what struck us was the terrible stench. not a single tree, not a single bird complete silence. so lucille school play
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and today. so we all got a number on our arms. no. and from then we were only numbers. and then we were put in the testing blocks. we had a man, the low on my to my curry should look his lot tens. main purpose was a secondary genocide, or in other words, killing the on born at me showed long or lot kick the show there would be no more undesirable races to boston lloyd couldn't we'll, to where become a clyde undine if we got clothes that weren't ours for the mansion club. no. um go . some of them were striped prison clothes a one ish. so feel a is shaun shaun. i was already very thin by then so they fit me. helen is well,
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i was glad that i found a dress rather than prison. clothes lads, front and stout goose life don't dissimilar to no good deece. if we went into block 10, he moved to we were taken to the 1st floor and shown the beds. unity. i don't renew lithia and the younger women climbed up to the top. tongues it at present. she and those who are 35 or 40 took the lower beds. so grassy ober we each had our own bed . you a mattress with a little straw and a blanket, but you have a improved 2, a mishawaka event and he and even do it. and then we waited. why don't you shoulder go off and i was called them for every day. 10 women were called by their numbers. yeah, no more issue. i was numbers 62501 and 2 who were yoga and i've been a special call, came one day, grow barrick ash was he,
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we were standing in rows of 5. did you include bag chose those of us? he wanted to look, we each did, but did he shall. he wasn't terrifying. he he was short and stout with a to rowley and had to white stockings and heavy walking shoes. did babylon nichols, fuccillo da da morton? not at all how you imagine then assess, man, nevada, you do your cisco the cerini machine in ah, the rooms i needed for my intended activity as well as the hygienic facilities were on the blocks lower floor. the women were housed on the upper floor. my assistance,
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4 or 5 of whom had been technical assistance, was selected from these 250 women. oh, this is oh so, but we were cold. i number an at the bus and then caliber or some other guy injected something d into our vaginas and 4 feet long. and then he said no more children, gardner kinda mm mm hm. and shameless, unique wellness. yeah, yeah. i had no idea easy enough. i was in perfect health, coffee,
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shit. i've never seen an x ray machine the for sure. now vision mid visa. i remember exactly what it was like as it did. we had a huge machine with 2 frames with wooden blocks do. don't. exactly stood between the 2 racks with one wooden block in front and one in the back eval if you don't do callbacks f as was in my i allow bergs non surgical sterilization and it was only one method. the ss tried as tests and list assess dr. hawes to month also experimented with x ray radiation at the same time coastline i don't live plenty of solid trivia. they just ship us for the 1st ones. it went very quickly. i was the 2nd thought was super fussy, excited. i didn't notice anything bad. just a little redness in money. sure. neil: young and pretty tough. me as she knew if young the 1st woman showed nothing at all
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to. that was him that but it started to take longer and longer. porno. see, the 3rd woman had visible marks in the 4th, even more did it. the last ones were doubled over in severe pain. the nauseous, vomiting did new. ze give them sla yet to answer him will still every single one had to lie on the table. once that day, almost to leave, you had to put your legs over the frame, or the stella leg. do all you were naked from the waist down from the waist down on tow monmouth, and you had to be silent. and all you weren't allowed to scream on to ish become a dr. cloud back gave me an injection milk there when he was
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a fat little man um, as fat as he was tall, so or as little as he was fat, rosel climb. he had thick cla tuckahoe a key mother. then they took parts of the uterus. mob of some were sent to different laboratories and an attempt to make something scientific that was not scientific at all. he said it was a crime what they had on to dare hot amish. he gave me an injection into the over in the overly on dish. well and then i was sent back upstairs to my bed. almost. i had to lie there for 3 days and night in pain, terrible pain flats, but i had tackle nourished. i explained the tasks to the assistance
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they would take x rays make injections into the uterus, but i never used the word sterilization. i did not take any of my lab assistance from turning sorta to the auschwitz camp. my secretary, ms. dia, only went with once to see the atmosphere. i wanted her to see how attached to me the women in block 10 were i also took my 3 year old daughter with me once they had some love even paid the nazi's not to gas us. dr. cloud bags and paid 50 phenix a day for his guinea pigs, but so triumphed ish finish. i'm cock prisoner fossil scanning inch,
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d d 's against an op. all these operations were done with spinal anesthetic not general was. the women were now told what was happening was the past year, these, they were suddenly numb as of paralyzed from the pelvis down about they didn't know what was happening to that business. or if it was reversible, but they were conscious, it must have been an immeasurable trauma and come, a mason come there only to come pick my new home. when you think we were just young women and had no idea what a uterus even was. and he said, when is to to even cloud bags? nurses couldn't explain it a few because they didn't know either who venue mitchell go as it go ceo holtgrewe . oh dear. oh, they said they would do all kinds of experiments on us and we're doing good. and the whole point was still, we couldn't have any more children. and they were successful. oh,
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money. ah, ah. ah, lotto a country town. oh, it was vicious, and the sadistic season. a doctor is expected to have at least a little compassion, line lobby. it goes against what the medical profession is all about and that he been, michel shift, shall talk. it was a group of doctors only thinking about their careers. velvet's me, they realized it was the opportunity of a lifetime. who will i? maybe it wouldn't be possible in the future if it's now or never callback hotter during his university research canal back had worked with sharing to develop a drug to cure natural in fertility. cheverly tate,
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lindsey bish dumped that man or gunshot was arbor. hebrews ordered the fallopian tubes often don't open enough furnished for the egg to implant. and the uterus i missed and condor. on deason vick, as i am going to own go kart giggle, he went the opposite way by injecting form aldehyde into the fallopian tubes. for stella, one does have to think incorrectly, that the resulting inflammation have. who would make them close the eye lighter for claim done wonderful as he sinned. ah, dear professor cloud bag for samples of contrast, i had been dispatched to you who we look forward with keen interest to your comments on the suitability of the compounds for your clinical trials. german greetings, science professor schiller signed dr. phone doubting me . a woman was brought to me who had already had children and who was about 30 years
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old. i did a normal x ray using i had a native contrast die. it was injected into the uterus with a 30 centimeter canola which is commonly used for x rays. the contrast di 1st fills the uterus, then enters the fallopian tubes. um, you can then see whether they are receptive i, the woman i treated did not appear to have found the injection, especially painful as for the question which you like to her asked me almost a year ago,
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namely how long it would take to sterilize a 1000 women in this way, i can safely answered to day that by a suitably trained physician with perhaps 10 assistance, most likely several 100, if not even a 1000. in one day from 1929 on i received 400 rights marks per month from sharing baccha for research purposes. in addition to these payments, i once received a large amount from sharing for an x ray machine. sharing said that they were glad to finally be able to do something personal for me. oh, in september 1940 at german research society ordered an x ray machine from siemens,
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full color clawback to be delivered to him in clinics her to he would lacy use it and al shreds the order, confirmation states we acknowledge receipt of your order. it will be delivered as soon as possible with german greetings. siemens. hi niga. ke hm. mm ah ah up haps not. so to starting in the fall 1944. all prisoners who were still fit for work were transferred to other concentration camps and the west or get off. that's when the doctors there begin to leave the dots ish in opposite some and this on the earth. shortly before the war ended. as
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our we had to assemble and ed morse a share and walk in lines of 5 faith a little way. and anyone who couldn't walk lead me go no, was shot. you bet. so jim, listen, i taught we watched for 3 days and nights, and then and then i was free by fly fina heaven, clinger varden, many prisoners were transferred to the west to mandavi's for many women. arrived in gardens, pluck were killough back also went amazon. if a so called in didn't al, cynthia, a little mock king there, he resumed his experiments. i toyed with much younger cynthia and roll my children . i know how to test it when sterilization was possible. i understood even before the onset of puberty, i fought friends with the kind of a can come clough back returned to kill from hobbins plug in early
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may 1945. but he was arrested by allied soldiers on june. the 8th he was taken to the soviet union to be tried. at the trial, clawback confessed i confirmed that i from march 1943 to january 1945 performed for sterilization experiments on the prisoners. $280.00 of the $400.00 women were subjected to trials. 150 of these were sterilized by methods. by looking at the facts, i realized that my activity was a crime against humanity. and i played guilty to it. ah. in 1948 clawback was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity. just 7 years later,
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in 1955, he was among the 1st prisoners of war to be brought back from the soviet union. as part of the od knowable gunning prisoner exchange agreement, but voices abroad opposed the release of such criminals and auschwitz of either recognized cause. plow back in a tv interview when he announced it is an indescribable feeling to be home. again, i feel reborn. the doctor was confident he could resume his medical practice quickly and placed an ad in the key and these paper urgent professor, called cloud bag empty, requires several capable female typists. meanwhile, the small jewish community and germany was seeking justice and demanded an investigation into plough bags. crimes at auschwitz they denounced him
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almost daily, new witnesses came for it until an investigation was finally opened. he was arrested in 1955. though he had confessed his crimes and the soviet court, he now denied them. i swear unto oath, i have never killed a person. i have not sterilized thousands of women. i have never committed atrocities or cruelties towards women or tortured them, but only helped and saved them. mm. the only damage these women may have is in for 2 me back now back died and 957 before the trial began. and which was, of course, bitter pill, for the surviving victims, believing,
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and oper could use. i'm for vision is our in room for they needed a trial to learn what had been done to them. the shim stephanie opera is dusty vander when they spent the rest of their lives. not knowing what had caused their medical problems on trials like that, allow medical expert to investigate what the victim is denied this opportunity to get the average in forget no doctor from block 10 was ultimately held accountable the exact number of women who were tortured and died in block 10 was never determined. their suffering went unpunished. neither sharing nor siemens were prosecuted. although siemens supplied the x ray machine to close back no representative was
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available for an on camera interview. an email from the company states, the siemens, historical institute cannot accommodate your request for a personal statement because the review of our archive shows that unfortunately, no material is available. that would answer your questions, that certainty in a telephone interview. siemens officials said that just as a comic who cannot be held responsible for accidents involving its cause. siemens cannot be held responsible for crimes committed with its device ah, sharing, which is part of the, by a pharmaceutical group to this day, reaps large profits from the results of plow backs research, synthetic humans that he developed are available worldwide and used for in fertility treatments and gender reassignment surgery,
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by far the most common is in the birth control pill of which col. clawback is considered the real father to day by a uses the slogan, science for a better life, to highlight it scientific efforts. but the company sees no link to cloud best crimes at auschwitz. despite intensive talks, no by a representative would appear on camera. instead, they wrote that plow backs later experiments for him, le in auschwitz, and 19431944, had nothing to do with his previous hormone research. by 1940 the previous scientific interaction between plow back and sharing had seized him shoot a fema. they are complicit not to the extent of the murderers or the doctors unit, but they helped them from the background color. but they made these crimes possible
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. she should because without these companies with edlio, without their research bonds, their support and the ability to later sell products resulting from the research. these crimes might never have been committed to operational engagement for source. i gave this an own. how can i reconcile experiment results that may benefit us, but which have been obtained under such completely indisputable, impossible transgressive ethical conditions. because the survivors have said that they want this to be used for the benefit of humanity. he doesn't eat, but they all wished the victims i paid for these results with their lives and how farm could be named and honored to be at varden said she the hold up the duty to finally tell the truth is in my eyes the least that should be done, are the women who were tortured and murdered, lead gallo, the truth must come out. they cannot live forever. they cannot the loving
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mood for no, that's no me. when she was little, no, no me. that's you. yeah, i know on it, and i was in my restaurant in mine or less salon. you were very happy baby, very happy. and i was happy. you have a spoon here in your hands. the woman that worked for me said to me, you are lat key. she looks like you she was a young woman and she wanted to, you know, help in the establishment of israel and believed in it. she was a zionist, but after the war it was because she met you who to angle. she basically told me that he married her and knowing that she couldn't have children or thinking, you know, she thought she couldn't have children because she had been experimented on. and then it turned out that he was the one who couldn't of the children. he was sterile
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. so i'm my mom one and very much to have a child. one of the doctors said, you know, you have a good ovary, you can have a child. why don't you have our official insemination? and there were 3 doctors in this small house, they, they converted to a hospital, you know, she's the one who is going to be the father. and they said either in one of us 3 and she said, no, i am not going to have that. i'm going to pick the father and she dead. so my mother, he had this cafe renee and was very, very happy with that. so she was just at the cafe and my father walked in. and then she thought, well, peace, good looking,
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you know, he might make, he might be a good prospect. and so she said she asked him if he would help her have a child and no strings attached. they went to a field under the eucalyptus trees and had boom boom. and then she really she conceived right away, which was amazing. and then he came back 3 weeks later and he said, well, do you want to try this again? you want to see, shall we try to make sure? and she said no, i think i'm good. and she was, i can't believe that she got pregnant right away. ah. i think my mother was a very courageous woman mero rules, and she was lucky that she got pregnant. there was no guarantees that she didn't.
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