Posted on 02/03/2018 8:45:55 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
A new documentary about the scale of Nazi medical experiments has reopened old wounds in France...trending on Twitter.
Dr Michel Cymes, the star of a French television medical advice programme, believes that the remains of some of the 86 Jews tortured and mutilated by SS doctor August Hirt may still be in the anatomy collection of the University of Strasbourg.
He first raised the theory in his 2015 bestseller, "Hippocrates in Hell",
The remains of Jews on which Hirt tested mustard gas at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp near the Alastian city were supposed to have been buried after it was liberated in 1944.
But after Cymes' claims, the university is now conducting an inquiry using outside experts into the contents of 20 boxes found in its collection which bear Hirt's name.
The Swiss-born anatomist was "one of the worst Nazi figures", according to Dr Raphael Toledano, a specialist on Nazi medical experiments.
He was convinced that the Jewish race was on the point of extinction and wanted to study the skulls of "Judeo-Bolsheviks".
Cymes, both of whose Polish-born grandfathers perished at Auschwitz, said he had little idea how extensive Nazi medical experiments had been until he started his own investigation.
His eyes were opened when he began looking in detail at the Nuremberg trials of 23 doctors which began in 1946, and in particular a postwar account of the Nazis' activities by the French naval physician, Francois Bayle.
When he came to write his own book Cymes said he tried to use his medical knowledge to "describe what the victims would have felt so that people would realise the suffering of these (human) guinea pigs".
Nearly 70 percent of German doctors were members of the Nazi party, according to Cymes' documentary.
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Well we at least want Japan now.
“special bombs designed to deliver millions of plague bearing fleas”
Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night was suppose to attack Northern California
The Japanese govt including currently under Shinzo Abe is notorious for historical revisionism. Much grief has been expressed by Chinese and Korean people over the lack of acknowledgment for atrocities like the rape of Nanking in China, and the lack of any voiced repentance over the brutal teatment Koreans received under Japanese occupation pre WWII.
It has a lot to do with shame/honor cultural sensibilities and the notion that confession implies surrender, defeat, or weakness.
Has also something to do with being a U.S. ally, in good economic standing, non-interventionist, and having been on the receiving end of nuclear weapons...which may give a sense of exoneration for their own crimes. (Because the “retaliation” was so massive.)
But honestly its just certain mainstays of toxic mentality that have never truly been erased or meaningfully confronted. Japan is also notorious for being the hardest country for Christian missionaries to have breakthroughs. I think it remains one of the least Christian countries in Asia. This has something to do with it definitely. Spiritual strangleholds where the Devil does not want to give up his grip.
Dr. Cymes is a sensationalist...the preserved bodies of the 86 victims of this experiment were discovered by Allied troops during the liberation of Strasbourg in 1944 and are buried in a Jewish cemetery there.
I just started reading “Samurai William”. I’m up to the point where the Portuguese Jesuits make Nagasaki their base.
We want Japanese economic ties and we want aircraft carrier Japan as forward basing to protect FON and contain China and Russia by various means and we want someone who owes us to fight with us as an ally if the balloon drops in Korea
About the only real deep “ values” shared by our cultures
Concern for all humanity is a veneer applied to the Japanese by the West
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Not sure why this should reopen old wounds in France. This was a German University for about 500 years until the end of WWI, and was a German University again at the time these experiments were going on.
“I have long been puzzled over the near-obsession with Nazi atrocities, while other horrors, such as those committed by the Japanese, are all but ignored.”
Two main things. One, the Japanese didn’t do the Holocaust—i.e. the attempted extermination of an entire race of people.
Two, the USA, esp. 75 years ago, had extensive European heritage...and very little Asian heritage. Hence European suffering meant a lot more to most Americans than Chinese, Philippine, or other Asian suffering. Asia was still quite alien to most Americans a couple generations ago...whereas most Americans were just a couple generations or so away from Europe.
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