see ed net once we were celebrating easter at his place and it was all very nice although i didn t like the look of him. two. of us was in it but we had a very nice time we had to climb trees and hunt for eggs. on top. of the nuts while a concentration camp the prisoners lived under catastrophic conditions physical abuse hunger and disease were the norm all of this was ignored by the doctors from the rice university who continued their research. in addition to august here at two other professors from the racial hygiene department were granted permission by the racial heritage agency to carry out human experiments there ologist oig and haagen was working on a treatment for typhus. auto pick and box tested the poison gas fos gene in experiments that became ever more horrible to be made uku the utter bacon
an atomic institute was just a stone s throw away from the medical faculty headed by my grandfather. surely he must have known what was going on at this faculty and had been aware of the murders and human experiments it s a question to which our family still has no definitive answer. emotes soon from whom i believe that the murder of eighty six jews who helped had ordered from auschwitz for his skeleton collection was kept secret from other people in the university. in addition to being a university professor ellis was also a member of the s s ancestral research agency. so he had his own separate institute s. s. institute in with i could carry out these matters it s institute. in the. if you were taught.
journey from poland. the survivors wouldn t live much longer beginning on august eleventh twenty nine women and fifty seven men were killed with cyanide in the camps gas chamber. their bodies were taken by truck to the rice university s anatomical institute while still warm they were then stored in the basement here would never complete his project. is the only german university where these kinds of human experiments were carried out. with all the other experiments we know about what conducted by as as doctors in concentration camps. but in this case it was university professors who conducted these deadly human experiments to mention experimental. and tomko institute was just a stone s throw away from the medical faculty headed by my grandfather. surely he
seventeenth one nine hundred forty three department h. of the institute for military research met in strasbourg. and auto pic and reported on the results of their human experiments the meeting was attended by both of us and my grandfather you know hamish dying. there is further evidence suggesting that my grandfather took an interest in research on raw. biology in a letter dated july sixteenth one thousand nine hundred three he personally supported the idea of carrying out so-called racial examinations on indian prisoners of war. in june one thousand nine hundred forty four the allies landed in normandy in strasbourg it was clear that the war was drawing ever closer many more students
in my family my grandfather was always described as merely a fellow traveller a storyteller who loved music the fact that he was an active nazi and supporter of nazi racial hygiene who in all likelihood approved of the human experiments is something that his children still struggle with to this day. does not mean much. of often it was devastating. human not my neighbor consoled me and said i should separate my memory of my father from that of the nazi. nazi tightened us. in my heart that you could make him worse father right. but i never thought him capable of that. i suppose a lot of other people say the same thing and that s how it is that.