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Poison Injected Into Forty Clergymen' •
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Received Wednesday, 11.45 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 17. S.S. doctors at Dachau on one occasion injected noison into 40 clergymen to test their reactions, Henrich Wilhelm Stoehr told the Nuremberg court, whieh is trying 23 German doctors charged with conducting experiments on prisoners, says the Assoeiated Press' Nuremberp- correspondent Stoehr, a Bavarian member of the Social Democratic Party and now a member of the Bavarian Legislative, was imprisoned in 1934 as a political opponent of Nazism. He was liberated in 1945 when the French arrived at Dachau. He was employed in the camp as a male nurse. and saw some experiments on prisoners. The doctors injected poison into the clergymen in their search for a cure for a disease affecting the camp inmates. Stoehr told also of exoeriments in whieh the inmates were filled with sea water. Stoehr asserted that Luftwaffe officers and personnel conducted this experiment. A group of forty special victims, all near starvation, on one occasion rebelled and attacked the nurse assigned to force them to drink brine.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 December 1946, Page 5
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