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Dr. Karl Gebhardt
“Dr. Karl Gebhardt, Himmler’s childhood friend, had a green light from him for his vivisection of women at both Ravensbruck and Auschwitz. In the former camp, he admittedly operated on 60, but survivors of Ravensbruck put the number closer to 100, mostly Poles between the ages of fourteen and twenty-five. He was an SS Brigadefuehrer (Major General) and stated in May 1943: `I carry the full human, surgical and political responsibility for these experiments.’ He was shot as a war criminal in 1948.”
Extracted from “WOMEN IN THE RESISTANCE AND IN THE HOLOCAUST: THE VOICES OF EYEWITNESSES” Edited (and with introduction) by Vera Laska. Greenwood Press, Westport & London, 1983. LOC 82-12018, ISBN 0-313-23457-4, p. 225
