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U.S. Investigates
German Doctor

New York (JTA) — The
Justice Department has
begun an investigation into
the wartime activities of a
German doctor who has been
elected president of the
World Medical Association.
The probe would deter-
mine whether Dr. Hans
Joachim Sewering, a former
member of the Nazi SS,
should be placed on the
"watch list" which bars en-
try into the United States.
The action by the Justice
Department's Office of Spe-
cial Investigations — its
Nazi-hunting division —
follows a request by the
World Jewish Congress.
The WJC said it was also
opening its own investiga-
tion into the case.
These actions came after a
campaign was launched to
ask Mr. Sewering to
withdraw his name from the
presidency of the World
Medical Association, to
which the 76-year-old doctor
was elected last October.
The American Medical
Association, a constituent
member of the world organ-
has asked Mr.
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Sewering
to step aside. A
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spokesman for the Chicago-
based group said if Mr.
Sewering did not withdraw
as president-elect, the
American group would op-
pose his taking office.
Under the rules of the
\„
world body, he is to become
president this coming Oc-
tober.
The campaign to bar Mr.
Sewering from the associ-
ation presidency was in-
itiated by Professor Michael
Kochen of the University of
Gottingen, in Germany, and
doctors from the United
States, Canada and Israel.
Mr. Sewering has ac-
> • knowledged that he was an
SS member before World
War II but denied accusa-
tions that he sent a tuber-
culosis patient to death as
part of the Nazi euthanasia
program.
Mr. Sewering, who lives in
Dachau, the site of a war-
time death camp, told the
New York Times, "I was 17
in 1933 when I had to join
the SS."
Later, he said, "I joined
the armed forces and was no
longer active in the SS ex-
cept in its cavalry branch,
the only part of the organ-
ization not accused of war
crimes."

Charges against Mr.
Sewering were first made by
the German magazine Der
Spiegel in 1978.
At that time, it was re-
ported that Mr. Sewering
was a doctor in 1943 at the
Schonbrunn tuberculosis
hospital.
"I still work at Schon-
brunn," the doctor told the
Times,emphasizing that the
hospital run by a Roman
Catholic order "never would
have suggested anyone who
was involved in the eutha-
nasia program as a can-
didate for the presidency of
the World Medical Associ-
ation."
Mr. Sewering said the pa-
tient in question had simply
been discharged on order of
hospital authorities and said
the Nazi euthanasia pro-
gram had been stopped in
1941.
The chairman of the Ger-
man National Chamber of
Physicians, in Cologne, told
the Times that the organiza-
tion remains behind Mr.
Sewering, whom it put for-
ward for president of the
world body.
Dr. Karsten Vilmar said
the charges against Mr.
Sewering "were proven
baseless in 1978, but they
keep coming up." He said
the organization would
never have suggested Mr.
Sewering for the post if the
charges against him were
true.
But Dr. Kochen, who op-
poses Mr. Sewering's nomi-
nation, told the Times that
"to say the charges are
baseless is simply a lie. "
Mr. Sewering would have
to have known what would
happen to a patient sent to a
known euthanasia facility,
Mr. Kochen said.

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Woman And Son
Killed In Holon

Jerusalem (JTA) — In an-
other possible case of terror-
ism, an elderly Israeli
woman and her son were
found beaten to death in
their home in Holon, near
Tel Aviv.
Police said they were not
certain whether the motive
for the killings was political
or criminal, but they pointed
out that the victims were not
robbed.

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