Message from discussion The Superpower's Medical Terrorism

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From: jaspar200...@yahoo.com (Jerry Aspar)
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Subject: The Superpower's Medical Terrorism
Date: 12 Mar 2003 10:50:38 -0800
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-----Under the March 6th headline
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-----------Guantanamo Facility To Open Mental Ward
-----------------------For Prisoners
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-----Associated Press reports:
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--------The psychiatric wing of about 35 cells will open
--------this month with a staff of psychiatrists, psycho-
--------logists and nurses....
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--------Patients will be held in [8-foot-by-7-foot] indi-
--------vidual cells, but some cells will be twice as large
--------to allow treatment and counseling, and some prison-
--------ers will be shackled....
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-----Below I present excerpts, formatted for readability,
-----from the Statement by
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----------------------LEO ALEXANDER, MD
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---------------------DOCTORS OF INFAMY:
------------the Story of the Nazi Medical Crimes
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-----Here's Dr Alexander's preliminary remarks:
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-----In the Summer of 1945, as an officer in the United
-----State Army, it became my duty to investigate medical
-----and research activities carried out in Germany during
-----the war, particularly in the field of diseases of the
-----nervous system and in related fields of physiology.
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-----I examined many documents, records and reports.
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-----I saw the concentration camps with their dispensaries
-----and laboratories.
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-----I interrogated surviving witnesses, culprits and others.
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-----I embodied my findings in a number of official reports
-----and [in] contributions to scientific journals.
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-----In 1946 I returned to Nuremberg as a Consultant to the
-----Secretary of War, on duty with the Office of the Chief
-----of Counsel for War Crimes.  I served into the following
-----year and had a chance to acquaint myself still more
-----thoroughly with the subject matter of this book.
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-----I can therefore vouch for the authenticity of the
-----documents it includes and for the truth an accuracy of
-----virtually all the statements made.
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-----Now Dr Alexander gets down to the substance of the
-----matter:
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-----Science under dictatorship becomes subordinated to the
-----guiding philosophy of the dictatorship.
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-----"Rational utility" and corresponding doctrine and
-----planning replace moral, ethical, and religious values.
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-----Nazi propaganda was highly effective in perverting
-----public opinion and public conscience in a remarkably
-----short time.  In the medical profession this expressed
-----itself in a rapid decline in standards of professional
-----ethics.
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-----The experiments performed in concentration camps
-----represented not merely a ruthless and callous pursuit
-----of legitimate scientific goals.
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-----An important feature is that they were motivated by
-----sinister, practical, ulterior political and personal
-----purposes, arising out of the requirements and problems
-----in the administration of totalitarian rule.
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-----These cases [of careerism] illustrate an important
-----element of motivation, familiar in ordinary crime and
-----applying equally to war crimes and crimes against
-----humanity.
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-----Fear and cowardice --especially fear of punishment or
-----ostracism by the group-- are often more important
-----motives than simple ferocity or aggressiveness.
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-----The archcrime to which the SS was committed was the
-----genocide of non-German peoples and the elimination by
-----killing, in groups or singly, of Germans who were
-----considered useless or disloyal.
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-----In effecting this twofold program Himmler demanded
-----and received the cooperation of physicians and of
-----German medical science.
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-----I have proposed the term "ktenology," the science of
-----killing, for this trend of Nazi research.
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-----In the course of ktenological research, methods of mass
-----killing and mass sterilization were investigated and
-----developed, as well as
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-------methods for rapid and inconspicuous individual
-------execution.
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-----The triumph along this line --a method that would
-----produce autopsy findings indicative of death from
-----natural causes-- was the development of intravenous
-----injectionss of a suspension of live tubercle bacilli,
-----which brought on acute miliary tuberculosis within a
-----few weeks.
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-----As a means of further camouflage, so that the SS at
-----large would not suspect the purpose of these
-----experiments, preliminary tests on the efficacy of this
-----method were performed exclusively on children at the
-----Neuengamme concentration camp.
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-----Whatever methods he used, the physician gradually
-----became the unofficial executioner, for the sake of
-----convenience, informality, and relative secrecy.
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-----Medical science has always been an instrument of
-----military power, in that it preserves the health and
-----fighting efficiency of troops.  This essentially
-----defensive purpose is not inconsistent with the ethical
-----principles of medicine.
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-----As long ago as the first World War, however, the German
-----empire enlisted medical science as an instrument of
-----aggressive military power by putting it to use in the
-----development of gas warfare.
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-----It was left to the Nazi dictatorship to make medical
-----science into an instrument of political power, a
-----formidable, essential tool in the complete and
-----effective manipulation of totalitaian control.
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-----This should be a warning to all civilized nations, and
-----particularly to those individuals who are blinded by
-----the "efficiency" of totalitarian government,
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--------------------UNDER WHATEVER NAME.
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-----*Doctors of Infamy* was published by Henry Schuman Inc.
-----The above excerpts are at pages xxix, xxx, xxxi, xxxiii
-----and xxxiv in the front matter of the book.
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-----http://jaspar.blogspot.com
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