Word: freiburg
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When Soviet troops rolled into Auschwitz in January 1945 and liberated the camp's remaining prisoners, they found no trace of the elusive doctor. By the following year, he is said to have settled in Freiburg. Indeed, he seemed to have already developed Houdini-esque gifts as an escape artist. Last January, former U.S. Army Private Walter Kempthorne told the Wiesenthal Center that in July 1945, he ran across a red-faced, sweating German in the custody of U.S. Army soldiers at a camp near the German town of Trier. Why, Kempthorne asked, was the man being put through such...
...however, the doctor was beginning to feel the pressure of his past. Spotted that year by an Auschwitz survivor, he left Freiburg, making his way to Italy and from there through Spain to Argentina. In Buenos Aires, he was assured of a warm reception: President Juan Domingo Peron was known to be tolerant of former Nazis and had promised to protect them...
...honor has been called the "Nobel Prize of liver research." Given every three years since 1970 by the Falk Foundation of Freiburg, West Germany, the Eppinger Prize carries an award of $5,000, and among hepatologists (liver specialists), a generous measure of international prestige. But last spring, when Dr. Howard Spiro, 60, a Yale gastroenterologist, first heard of the Eppinger Prize, his reaction was one of horror. He clearly remembered reading about a pioneering Viennese liver specialist named Hans Eppinger who had planned vicious experiments on inmates of Nazi concentration camps. He recalled that the doctor had committed suicide when...
...Freiburg, West Germany...
DIED. Karl Rahner, 80, Roman Catholic theologian who ranks as one of the century's most influential religious thinkers; of a heart attack; in Innsbruck, Austria. Born in Freiburg, Germany, Rahner entered the Jesuit order in 1922 and established himself as a brilliant modern interpreter of St. Thomas Aquinas. The author of nearly 4,000 publications, Rahner was an influential behind-the-scenes presence at the Second Vatican Council...