Germans give former SS doctor accused of killing 900 children a medal

UK Daily Mail ^ | 5/26/08 | Allan Hall

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Hans-Joachim Sewering: Accused of mass-murder

A former SS doctor accused of sending 900 sick children to their deaths under the Nazi euthanasia programme has been awarded a German medical association's highest honour.

The decision comes as Jewish organisations continue to press Germany to put 92-year-old Hans-Joachim Sewering on trial for mass murder.

He was given the Guenther-Budelmann medal by the German Federation of Internal Medicine for "unequalled services in the cause of freedom of the practice and the independence of the medical profession and to the nation's health system".

Sewering was a doctor at a tuberculosis clinic near Munich before World War II.

He allegedly signed orders sending 900 German Catholic children from the clinic to a "healing centre".

In fact, it was a killing centre carrying out a secret Nazi policy of murdering the handicapped who were declared "useless eaters" by the Nazis before the war.

Many of the Nazi participants in the programme went on to become death camp commandants and high-ranking officials of the Holocaust.

Four nuns who broke their vow of silence on the recommendation of the Archbishop of Munich in 1993 claim to have witnessed Sewering ordering the transfer of the children and signing documents to that effect.

The U.S. Anti-Defamation League, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and an independent committee seeking Sewering's prosecution claim he was an enthusiastic supporter of the euthanasia programme.

He has admitted to membership of the SS, an elite Nazi group, claiming he joined for "social reasons", but has always denied being responsible for euthanasia.

Sewering, former head of the German doctors' association, was designated in 1992 as chairman of the World Medical Association but had to withdraw the following year under international pressure because of the accusations against him.

Wolfgang Wesiack, president of the German Federation of Internal Medicine, said Sewering was honoured because "he deserved it".

He refused to talk about the Nazi allegations.

The case illustrates Germany's reluctance to pursue alleged Nazi war criminals.

Despite a flurry of trials after the war and a few in the early 1950s, Germany largely forgot about former Nazis, many of whom thrived in politics, the judiciary and the police.

A spokesman for the Committee to Bring Dr Hans-Joachim Sewering to Justice said he "symbolises the lingering legacy of Nazi medicine and the failure of a large part of the German medical community to take responsibility for their acts in the Third Reich".

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In fact, it was a killing centre carrying out a secret Nazi policy of murdering the handicapped who were declared "useless eaters" by the Nazis before the war.

If the culture of death wasn't so prominent, even a hint of this would keep him from getting an award.

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[Morgana]

Doch die Deutschen haben noch nicht gelernt. Warum?

[Scotswife]

Florida should recruit this guy to run their hospices.

[wagglebee]

The Germans are now giving awards to the "pioneers" in the killing of "worthless eaters."

Nazi Euthanasia

[wagglebee]

Translation please.

[sitetest]

He’d make a good Democrat presidential candidate.

Or, the way some were thinking this primary season, a good Republican one, too.

[SkyDancer]

Good - he can show it to all those other nazi’s who are in Hell what a great job he did .....

[traumer]

Und waz wrong wiz it ?

[SolidWood]

The Eugenic culture of death and nihilism is up and alive in Germany... and here as well. Disgusting.

claiming he joined (the Nazis) for "social reasons", but has always denied being responsible for euthanasia.

"Aber wir haben von nichts gewusst!"

[SolidWood]

Translation please.

"But the Germans have yet learned nothing. Why?"

[Radl]

Another one gets away with murder, just like those Turkish bastards.

[sionnsar]

(Approx:) But the Germans haven’t yet learned. WHy?

[narses]

But the Germans did not learn yet. Why?

[attiladhun2]

Germany embraced eugenics and the culture of death years before the Nazis took over. The eugenics program advocated by the Nazis was a principle reason the German intelligensia largely supported the regime.

[Morgana]

On August 3, 1941, a Catholic Bishop, Clemens von Galen, delivered a sermon in Münster Cathedral attacking the Nazi euthanasia program calling it “plain murder.” The sermon sent a shockwave through the Nazi leadership by publicly condemning the program and urged German Catholics to “withdraw ourselves and our faithful from their (Nazi) influence so that we may not be contaminated by their thinking and their ungodly behavior.”

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Well thank God somebody spoke out against it back then!

[count-your-change]

And an SS officer who used slave labor from the concentration camps was promoted by the U.S. to be the head of a NASA department. It seems the smell of death wears off quickly.

[SolidWood]

German Federation of internal infernal Medicine for "unequalled services in the cause of freedom (yeah freedom) of the practice and the independence of the medical profession and to the nation's health system"( Hillary take notes).

[Morgana]

I am sorry I forget not everyone speaks German.

However remember this term: Nie wieder!

It means: Never again!

Most Germans should remember it after WWII, that is if they have forgotten.

[SolidWood]

Irving Kristol put it brilliantly, although it's in regard to foreign policy:

"The Germans have learned the wrong lesson from WW2.

Instead of learning that Evil has to be fought, they learned that fighting is evil."

[count-your-change]

While LaGuardia was Mayor of New York his sister, Gemma, was imprisoned in the Ravensbruck concentration camp. She later wrote her memoirs and mentioned a group called Bible Students who were imprisoned because they would not aid the Nazi war effort. A couple thousand of their group died either by execution or in the camps, one of the under told stories of the war.

[J Aguilar]

The answer to why the Germans (and most Continental Europeans in general) haven't learnt it yet could be found here:

Germany's National Socialism

It is a side effect of Socialism.

[J Aguilar]

"The Germans have learned the wrong lesson from WW2. Instead of learning that Evil has to be fought, they learned that fighting is evil."

This is very good! I'll told to my fellow Spaniards!

[NavVet]

Because it is still a largely a liberal society.

[SolidWood]

I know. Excellent quote. However I think I have to correct the source. It seems it’s from Dennis Prager. However I have mostly heard it attributed to Kristol...

[pabianice]

What the f*** is wrong with Germany, anyway?

[J Aguilar]

They are Socialist, and they don’t admit that had something to do with what happened in WWI and WWII.

[floriduh voter]

What took so long? Judge Greer killed Terri in March of 2005 (his 3rd or 4th attempt) and he was ALREADY getting awards in May, 2005. His first award for bumping her off like a good nazi was a MANTEL CLOCK.

[Rudder]

Is this guy guilty of the allegations?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

If you are referring to the Armenian genocide, any Turks who took part are well over 105 years old, and are most likely long dead. The protests against the Turks are about national or racial guilt, not individual guilt.

[B4Ranch]

Is abortion legal in the UK? How many babies have been killed in the UK .......... in the past year, ten years? Yup, enough to fill a cruise ship from top to bottom and they are worrying about some Nazi Kraut getting a medal for killing 900?

Todays journalism is sick comedy.

[SkyDancer]

Remember, nobody gets away with anything ... there is a Higher Court with no appeals .....

[Radl]

Right. Unlike the Germans, those people got away with murder, never had to show any remorse and now have the nerve to say it never happen. Of course, being around the time of Lawrence of Arabia they are all dead.

[Lesforlife]

[B4Ranch]

Exactly what I was meaning!

[Rebelbase]

#29, in the context of the article......

[OKSooner]

"Germans give former SS doctor accused of killing 900 children a medal "

And this is a surprise how? We're talking about krauts here.

[BykrBayb]

#37, the Nazis are not pleased with your opposition to their pogrom, but the trolls forgot to ping you to their crap. Well, they didn’t actually forget. They went to the bother of deleting your name to insure you wouldn’t be pinged. But we’ve come to expect this behavior from the cowards.

[8mmMauser]

Pinged from Terri Dailies

8mm

[Constitution Day]

::eye rolls::

[Bokababe]

There is a guy in the San Francisco Bay Area who has spent over $100,000 of his own money and endless hours trying to bring this Mengele-wannabe to justice, with no luck. Instead, Germany gives the Nazi Dr. an "award". Sigh...

[Atlantic Bridge]

They are Socialist, and they don’t admit that had something to do with what happened in WWI and WWII.

Contemporary German or western European socialism (this includes Spain BTW.) has absolutely nothing to do with WWI or WWII. The thing is that most Europeans are used to a nanny government that is solving all social problems, is providing healthcare and equals the income. German National Socialism in the 30ties was the prearrangement for a war. Equal incomes, something quite crucial for contemporary European socialists, i.e. were no aim of the Nazis.

Therefore all fairy tales of nazi roots in actual socialism are simply BS.

The first European problem is rather the political systems that do not transmit the political will of the people. Switzerland i.e. is a real free country while this can not be said in so called "representative democracies" like Germany. The second problem are the people themselves. They simply love their socialism. No matter in which part of Europe you go: Poland, Spain, France or Germany.