Book Exposes Nazi Medical Horrors;
Publisher Schuman Faces Libel Suit

I6—THE JEWISH NEWS

Full Steam Ahead

Friday, April 22, 1949

Extensive Benefits

Documented literature being other groups. - An introductory
collected to show the methods essay by Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, vice- Accorded Arabs By
that were used by Nazis to ex- president of the 'University of
terminate Jews has been incor- Illinois, concludes with the state- Israeli Governthent
p4rtaed in "Doctors of Infamy: ment that: "What happened to
NEW YORK (Palcor)
The
The Story of the Nazi Medical the medical profession of Ger-
Crimes," published by Henry many is stern testimony to the social and economic benefits
Schuman, Inc., 20 E. 70th St., fact that acceptance of or even acruing to Arabs who elect to re-
silence before the violation of main in Israel were detailed in
New York 21.
This uncensored volume shows sacred professional ethics, the a dispatch from New York Times
how Nazi victims, most of them service by medical men of any correspondent Gene Currivan
Jews, were tortured and killed goal but truth for the good of from Tel Aviv. Commenting on
under the excuse of medical ex- humanity, can lead to dishonor the Arab evacuation of the
perimentation. Doctors must read and crime in which the entire Falluja area to Arab controlled
this book in order to recognize medical prOfession of a country parts of Palestine, Currivan says
the horrors that were resorted to must in the_ jast analysis be con- that if these people -had been
in killing off entire populations. sidered an accomplice."
aware of what the Israelis have
Other chapters are contributed
The book reveals the instructions
done and plan to do for their
by
Brig.
Gen.
Telford
Taylor,
that were given for wholesale
Arab fellow-citizens, they would
Chief
of
Counsel
for
War
Crimes;
murders by a Nazi professor of
not have been "so easily stam-
anatomy who wanted to accumu- Dr. Leo Alexander, Consultant peded into leaving the country."
to
the
•
Secretary
of
War
at
the
late a collection of Jews' skulls.
"Mosques have been, restored,
The • Nazi instructions, which Nuremberg trials; and Albert
religious courts are again operat-
were carried out obediently, pro- Deutsch. •
ing and their archives re-assem-
vided that when Jews especially
bled under a special committee
selected for this purpose were
working for the restoration of
killed, the heads must not he
the holy places," Currivan writes.
injured. A Nazi junior medical
officer was to sever the head
"There is a sub-committee for
from the body and send it to a
Arab food control, 'which gives
central depot. Hundreds of Jews
preference to Arab merchants
were killed and beheaded in this
serving Arab areas. In the Beer-
way, as witnesses at the Nurem-
sheba area, at the top of the
berg trial of twenty prominent
Negev desert, where Bedouin
German physicians in 1947 testi-
tribes have been constricted and
fied.
prevented from indulging in their
The trial, held before an Ameri-
seasonal nomadic wanderings,
can m i l i t a r y tribunal, also
there is another committee that
brought to light other shocking
supplies staplt foods to them.
atrocities committed by German
"Ten consumers cooperatives
doctors on Jews in extermination
have been organized in towns as
-camps. All these atrocities are
Jaffa, Acre and Lydda. Four
recorded in "Doctors, of Infamy"
dollars and fifty cents daily are
in direct testimony and docu-
being paid to Arab • workers,
mentation presented at the trial.
against the previous scale of
The book is of great import-
$1.9. There are social welfare
ance, inasmuch as it "immortal-
programs operating now, and hos-
izes" the medical crimes of Nazi
pital clinics set aside for Arabs
Germany so that with the passage
with Arab and Israeli doctors
of time they will not be altogether
working side by side. There is an
forgotten.
ambulance service to remote
An attempt to keep Americans
Arab sections, and mobile clinics
from learning the truth about the
that reach every distant Arab
medical atrocities of Nazified
farm. _ •
German doctors has been de-
feated, according to Publisher
"Six thousand Arab children
An orphan child weeps bitter are attending 55 schools under
Schuman.
a
tears
in
i
the
arms
of
a
JDC
work-
Top-ranking • German doctors
budget of almost $250,000. Jaffa
were involved in. the "experi- er at a child care home main- has its. own Arabic newspaper and
ments" which made guinea pigs tained in Europe with funds the Israeli radio station transmits
out of human beings, said Mr. raised through the nationwide Arab news items and programs
Schuman. Since 1947, when the $250,000,000 campaign of the daily."
original German version of the United Jewish Appeal. Child
book appeared, desperate efforts „care programs continue to be a Improper language
have been made by the German major part of American Jewry's
A friend of mine assures me
medical profession to suppress it. responsibility. Europe's Jewish
Finally, under presSure . from children • ultiniatelY will be re- that he witnessed this, but I have
their colleagues, the two German settled in Israel and the USA. my doubts. Anyway, he says he
authors of the original book on Detroit Jews give to JDC through -was walking in Central Park, be-
which much. of "Doctors of In- the Allied Jewish Campaign.
hind an old Jew and a small boy
famy" is based (Dr. Alexander
and the old Jew turned to the
Mitscherlich and Fred Mielke),
USE OUR CLASSIFIEDS
youngster and said: "Zu a zay-
suddenly disavowed' the Ameri-
THEY BRING RESULTS!
den sagt men son of a gun?"
can edition -(which they .had
previously enthusiatically author-
ized), and even went so far as to
demand that the Alien Property
Custodian in Washington pro-
hibit publication. Despite this
amazing effort at suppres5ion, no
prohibitive action was taken, and
the book has been published as
scheduled.
"A legal representative of the
authors has intimated that I
may be sued by them," said
Mr. Schuman. If such a suit
PROTECTS AN ANT COSTUME
materializes, I think we can
cope with it. This would be
'Tasupax cannot "show, - even 'with
a good test case—to see whether
a playsuit or sheer evening dress*
those forces in Germany which
Invented by a doctor—worn
are trying to cover up the
'internally. Quick changing;
crimes of the Nazis are strong
easy disposal
enough to whitewash some of
the blackest crimes known to
history. I personally am con-
_.v.,.......th..
...pph,
fident they cannot succeed."
Doctors of Infamy is essentially
straight documentary, consisting
of testimony given at Nuremberg
O
in the trial of the 23 German
medical men accused of atrocities
under the guise of medical ex-
perimentation on Jews, political
prisoners, prisoners of war, wo-
men, the aged and feeble, and

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CARD OF THANKS
The survivors of Ruth Ein-
standig and her children, Marc
and Marcia, wish to express
sincerest thanks to relatives
and friends for the kindnesses
shown them in their recent
bereavement.
NEWTON S. EINSTANDIG
Husband and Father
MRS. ROSE LUBLIN and
MR. and MRS.
M. EINSTANDIG
Grandparents

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of Israel liner S. S. Negbah, signal the engine room of his ship as it
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carrying a large share of the 250,000 homeless European Jews who
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$250,000,000 United Jewish Appeal campaign power the ships
transporting homeless immigrants to the Jewish homeland.