Word: ellenbogen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the Nazis heard their fates without show of emotion, clicked their heels and walked out of the courtroom. A repentant exception was Jewish Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, a naturalized U.S. citizen and a notorious Buchenwald "trusty." He pleaded: "You have placed the mark of Cain on my forehead. Any physician who committed the crimes I am charged with deserves to be killed-must be killed. Apply to me the highest therapy that is in your hands." The judges prescribed life imprisonment...