Word: clauberg
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...face Van Dam and many others had cause to remember belonged to Nazi Gynecologist Carl Clauberg, an SS general and onetime chief of the infamous Block Ten medical section at Auschwitz concentration camp, where he carried out brutal sterilization experiments on Jewish women, killing many of them...
Carefully sifting the evidence he had against Clauberg, Van Dam decided that murder might be hard to prove, and he wanted to be sure. Van Dam, a lawyer, finally addressed a letter to the public prosecutor at Kiel, charging only that Clauberg had "caused severe bodily harm" to Jewish women at Auschwitz, backed his charge with sworn statements from more than 30 sterilized women who had survived Clauberg's experiments. He also cited a letter in which Clauberg boasted to Gestapo Chief Himmler that "my method of achieving sterilization of the female organs has been developed more or less...
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