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German Doctor Tells How ‘Unworthy* DiedVnt'bFI)IJ. S. 12th Army Group Head- while a student at the University quarters—(U.R)—Dr. Gustav Wil- of Munich, helm Schuebbe said Monday the -Nazi annihilation institute at Kiev German Civilians killed from 110,04)0 to 140,000 per-! 111011 v',v IiailJIsons “unworthy to live” during the nine months he worked here. Schuebbe, captured by Firstarmy troops recently, admitted hehad murdered about 21,000 persons.He told his story voluntarily and showed no feeling of guilt but occasionally became evasive when he appeared to sense that his actions might be viewed as crimes.The annihilation institute was established alter the Germans captured Kiev in 1941. Schuebbe was there about five months before he became head of it.View Nazi AtrocitiesBY ELEANOR PACKARDA Concentration Camp, Near Landsberg, Germany — (U.P.) — German civilians were brought here Monday to look at the handiwork of the Nazis—the emaciated bodies of political prisoners killed bystarvation.Some 400 to 500 bodies, most of them Jewish males, have been discovered in this camp and others are being uncovered every hour. They had been inmates of the sickt'#11V1t(tIHe remained at the institute un- section, useless as slave laborerstil March. 1942.and the Nazis decided they were not worth wasting food on.Like Horror Museum(l]racesJews, members of foreign and gypsies, he said.Each doctor at the institute “pro cessed about 100 persons per day.!The doctors were aided by Nazi secret service men who were dress-] ed in the uniform of medical aid-men and whose job it was to hold the patient, “who naturally was ini bed.” !Schuebbe .admitted, after consid-j erable questioning, that “no-diseased'’ persons, meaning “politically unreliable persons, foreign nationals, Jews and gypsies were “hospitalized by the secret service.Corpses of the dead were “handled by mongols who were supplied for this purpose by the eity health department. The corpses were brought to a rearby crematorium, he said.Aware of Importance“Of course, we, the circle of German physicians at Kiev were aware of the importance of this job, Schuebbe said. “Aside from certain devious sideroads of this action 1 still maintain the follow-1'liat just like one prunes a tree—by removing old, undesirable branches in the spring, so for its own interest a certain hygenical supervision of the body of a people is necessary from time to time.This also includes sterilization.” Shuebbe joined the Nazi bund„v.- were brought to the camp.Lists “Unworth’'The persons “unworthy to live . „ . . , . , .. . , .. .. , ■. „ . A few had on the striped trousersincluded epileptics, schizophrenics, , ,... . . . h1 , , r * __ . of political prisoners, but mostwere naked. Their gaunt skeleton frameworks looked more like gruesome waxworks from a horror i museum than human beings.Approximately 600 of the leading German citizens from nearby villagesIt was hard to tell what the Germans felt as they marched past the bodies.“Why show this to me? seemed to be their attitude. “I didn't do it. I didn’t know about it. That was what the looks of most of them appeared to say.Others, especially the very old, appeared only bewildered and not quite certain why they had come.Some Germans expressed sorrow and astonishment, but one American soldier, standing near me, said: “I'd like to turn my tommy* un on the whole stinking bunch of them.”The mutterings were taken up by other GI’s and for a moment it seemed the situation might get out of hand. But the tension eased when Col. Edward F. Seiller, Lowell. Kv., head of the 12th armored’s military government, addressed the Germans, through a translator, Sgt. Max Beer. New York City.Example of “Culture”“This is a prime example of your vaunted German culture. Seiller said. “You may say you are not responsible, but you supported theorrmg
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