DEATH PENALTY FOR WAR CRIMES
Received Wednesdav. 11. .'10 p.m. XFRE.M BERG, August 20. The Fnited States Wur Crinies Tribunal senlenred to death Kuri Brandr, Hitler's personal pliysician who with 1-t otliers, was found guilty of war crinies iiicluding guineapig experiments and inercy killings. Otliers sentenced to death were Kar] Gebhardt, Himmler's jiersonal doetor and president of tlie Gfcnnan Red ('ross; Iiudolph Brandtj Himmler's admiuistrative adjtitant; •Toachiin Mugrowsky, chief of the S.S. Ilvgienic Instilute; Victor Brack, administrat ive chief of the Reich Chan-t-ellery; Waldemar Iloven, chief doctor of the Buchenwald conccntration camp. Other scnlences were: — Life imprisonment: -Siegfried Ilamllos, chief of the Wehnnacht niedical services; Gerhardt Rose, chief of the departinent of trojiical medicine; Kuri Genzkeu, chief ot Waffcn S.S. medical services; Fritz Fischer, assistant pliysician to Hiinrnler. Twentv years ' imprisonnient: Herman Becker-Freysing, chief of the departinent of aviation medicine; Herta Oberliauser, pliysician of the Ravensliruck concentration canip for women and the only woman amoug the guilty. Fifteen years' imprisonnient ; \Vi.lhelni Beigliioeck, T.uftwafFe consultani.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 August 1947, Page 5
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