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...Next to Koch. The biggest news last week came from Buffalo, where three tuberculosis societies held a joint convention.* Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute had at last discovered a method of cultivating TB bacteria, simply and quickly, in test tubes. The basis of Dubos' method is a synthetic detergent made by Atlas Powder Co. (which calls it "Tween 80") for use in cosmetics. Doctors hailed the discovery as the greatest contribution to TB research since Robert Koch first isolated the germ itself...
...Carl Koch...
Among those in the dock was Heinz Hermann Koch, 32, a foolish grin on his heavy, sensual face. Koch had once been a Stuttgart hairdresser. "But I didn't like being a hairdresser," he told the court. "I wanted women, drink, money. So I joined the Gestapo...
Russian justice has a flair for getting people to admit most anything. It got Sensualist Koch to admit shooting at least three victims at each mass execution as an example to his men, asphyxiating 30 people in a gas chamber, sending 2,500 to Maidanek (knowing it was a death camp), personally executing more than 5,000 men, women & children in three years...
...half hour later he denied these statements. While he spoke, one of the defense lawyers doodled on a white pad. When Koch had finished, the doodle stood out in heavy black lines, clearly visible from the press box up above. It was a gallows...