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...Known as Struthof-Natzweiler, the camp, hidden in a thick wood in the Vosges foothills, was equipped with a "laboratory," where prisoners were inoculated with plague, typhus and leprosy germs, blinded, gassed and otherwise deliberately injured, so that their sick and dying spasms could be observed through glass windows by German "professors." Since then, though the French have searched far & wide for the Struthof professors, they have caught only three. Last week in Metz, a French military court heard the Struthof case. Said Dr. Otto Bickenbach, onetime Heidelberg faculty member, accused of giving poison gas to prisoners: "I could have...
...chief Struthof monsters, Professor August Hirt, SS director of the camp, and Dr. Helmuth Ruhl, are still at large. Tried in absentia, they were sentenced to death...
...camp, known as Struthof-Natzweiler, was found in a thick wood in the Vosges foothills, 30 miles from Strasbourg. Near its rows of dark green huts was a "laboratory" equipped with gas and torture chambers, a crematorium, a vivisection room. There some 20,000 people (mostly Jews) were used and killed...
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