DIPPED FOR 90 MINUTES IN ICE-COLD WATER

Chronicle (Levin), 23 December 1946, Page 3

DIPPED FOR 90 MINUTES IN ICE-COLD WATER

NAZI "SCIENTIFIC" ATROCITY Beueived yundnv, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, Dee. 22. Father Leo^ Michalowski testified at the trial of 22 Oerman doctors that he was chosen to .undergo nialaria ;expcrinients .aiul ice-water,.ixnmersion because he was'a Pole;;a>'Ca.thoiic and a priest, says the ;! ASspcistt.ed : Press' Nuremberg Corfespoh.lelit. Father yiielialowski, tvho is 36, 'said the-ice-water experiments .wefe made • in the interests of the- LufrwaiTe ■ atid two Luftwaffe dffieets:-ktteiidei 'theiti. ,Tlie>; priest said he was dressed in a Luftwaffe pilot's uniform, then dropped into frigid water where he remained for 90 minutes in acute pain and fnlly eonscious. He was forced to smoke half a eigarette and drink a glass of sclmapps and lukewarm grog during the experiment to tost the effeets on the body resistance. Afterwards he was warmed by sunlanipa. After the experiments he was told they werp a miiitary secret and he was warned to keep silent. Former inmates giving evidence at the Kavensbruek cam^) trial said they called Carmeu kiory the "Black Angel." They said she terrilied them. One witness said eveu the camp doctor was afraid of her.

The Daily Express's Hamburg correspondent says Nlory claims to be engaged to a former Britisli army captain, saying she met him while he was working in Germany for the Britisli intelligenee. She refused to give his uame, but her eounsel said she is hoping lie will come from England to help clear her on some of the charges. Fortv-eight-year-old Judge Hams Ehard, wlio as a young lawyer helped to prosocute Hitler and throw him into gaol after his 1923 putsch, has been elected Alinister-President of Bavuria for four yeara under the Liberal Cqpstition. Fhard, who is a member of the Fhristian Soeial Union, was elected \>y 121 votes out of 147. General McNarney stated that Russia so far had shown uo interest whatsoever in joning the zone fusion, s^ys Beuter's Frunkfurt correspondent. He added that information discus^ions ,on the xiroblem of German curreney reform are taking plaee but no attempt would be made to solve the problem in the British-Ameriean zoue alone as the question affeeted the whole of Germany. The Britisli News Service in Germany says Berlin biaek niarketeers are being tried within an liour of theTr arrest. The sentenees are then broadcast from loudspeakers on cars in the area where they were aTrested.