BACTERIA AS A WEAPON

Chronicle (Levin), 27 August 1946, Page 5

BACTERIA AS A WEAPON

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Use Planned by Germans REVELATIONS AT NUREMRERG

By Telearavh

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Received Tuesdav, 12.44 a.m. XURKM BFRG, Aug. 26. Hitler gave Goering all necessary powers for the preparatiou and direction of bacteriological warfare at a. secret conference in Julv, 1943, to wliich tlie Iligh Commaud summoneu representatives of the Army Medicai lnspectorate, said Major General Walter Schreiber, scientific expert, who was fl'own from a Soviet war prisoners camp near Moscovv to give evidenve be t'ore the War Crinies Tribunal. Schreiber added that a colonel who presided at the conference said that bev cause of the war situation, the Iligh Coninmnd had to take a* dif'ferent vievv of the question of the use of bactena as a weapon. Wituess said an institutv was established near Posen for the pro duction of cultures on a large scale The only factors wliich prevente.. operations were the lack of time for the production of tlie cultures aud for tlie development of serums for tlie protec tion of Gcrnmn soldiers. Another in stitute was being prepared at Thringia to consider the possibility of spreadiup bubonic plague. Things occurred on the Dennan sidv whic.li wero against the old laws an medicai ethics, admitted Schreibeu. H considered a thorough purge uecessarv in the interests of the Geruian people medicai science and the training of future doctors. Goering sat motionless, only onct smilino- faiutlv.