Dr. Edwin Katzenellenbogen, 60, took the witness (##) today in the war crimes trial at Dachau to defend himself against charges of (##)ty to inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp where he served as camp (##) at the same time that he was an inmate.
Speaking in perfect English, the defendant did not answer a question as to (##)her he was Jewish, but replied instead that he had attended Catholic schools. (##)so denied any cruelty to prisoners, admitting, however, that he did not allow, (##)tes to sit around a campfire on winter evenings because “it was not good for (##).” The prosecution expects to complete its cross-examination tomorrow.
Katzenellenbogen was born in a village on the Austro-Hungarian border, and (##)ified as a physician in Leipzig. He emigrated to the United States in 1905, (##)e he married Aurelia Pierce, daughter of a Massachusetts Supreme Court justice, (##) whom he was subsequently divorced. He resided for several years in the United (##)es and claims American citizenship. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to (##)enwald, he was appointed physician of the notorious “little camp” where he (##)gedly sent thousands of inmates to their death through experimentation or neglect. (##)s charged that he obtained “confessions” from many inmates through hypnotism, (##)ch led to their murder.
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