29 Aug 2010 Surgical instruments found in Auschwitz
Categories: War crimes , Calendar
The atrocities that took place in the Auschwitz concentration camp probably need not even be mentioned. Evidence of them can still be found today. Eleven years ago, for example, 150 surgical instruments.
They probably belonged to Nazi gynaecologist Carl Clauberg, who carried out the mass sterilisation of women. "Everything points to that. This is one of the biggest discoveries in recent years," said Bartosz Bartyzel, spokesman for the Auschwitz Museum.
The instruments were lying in a heavily guarded zone around the Auschwitz concentration camp. Between 1940 and 1945, 1.1 million people died there, including one million European Jews. Polish, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war also died in the camp.
The doctor Carl Clauberg was a member of an elite SS unit. At Auschwitz, they performed mass sterilizations of women. Hundreds did not survive the experiments because the Nazis used pseudo-medical procedures. When the Red Army approached in 1945, Clauberg fled to the notorious Ravensbrück women's concentration camp near Berlin, where he continued the experiments.
However, he was captured by the Red Army in June and given 25 years in prison. In 1955, he was extradited to West Germany. There, he was charged again on the basis of complaints from survivors. He died in 1957.
He took up medicine after World War I and was considered a great talent. From the beginning, however, he had a negative attitude towards Jews; even as head of the clinic, he refused to examine Jewish women and girls.
In 1933, he joined the NSDAP. He became acquainted with high-ranking politicians. As a result, he became professor of gynaecology at the University of Königsberg in Prussia. In 1942, thanks to his outstanding results in the sterilization of uncomfortable persons, he managed to convince Heinrich Himmler to send him to the newly built Auschwitz I concentration camp.
He injected acid into the genitals of unsuspecting women who came for routine gynaecological examinations without anaesthetic. They suffered excruciating pain and some begged him to kill them. Clauberg graciously obliged by letting them die on the table.
Sources: www.idnes.cz, www.dotek.cz, https://timesofmalta.com/
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