A former “selection doctor” at the Auschwitz death camp, who is awaiting trial on charges of mass murder, testified yesterday that he set up the first death center in 1940 for Hitler’s “euthanasia” program to kill persons considered unfit to live under Nazi racial laws.
Dr. Horst Schumann, who was extradited from Ghana last year after a long legal battle, testified at the trial of three doctors here accused of participation in the mass murder of patients during the Nazi regime. He said he did not dare to refuse participation in the euthanasia program because he had been informed that this program was ordered by Hitler. The date for Schumann’s trial has not yet been set. The doctors on trial are Klaus Endruweit, Heinrich Bunke and Acquilin Ulrich.
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