{"id":26371,"date":"2015-09-05T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=26371"},"modified":"2015-09-05T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T12:02:41","slug":"26371","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=26371","title":{"rendered":"Remains of dozens of Jews used for Nazi experiments.."},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/m-online.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"25%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3166977\/Remains-86-Jews-used-Nazi-experiments-WW2-discovered.html?ito=social-facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Remains of dozens of Jews used for Nazi experiments..<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Peter Allen In Paris <\/strong>&amp;<strong>\u00a0Lydia Willgress for MailOnline<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Remains of dozens of Jews used for Nazi experiments during the Second World War have been found stored at a laboratory in Strasbourg<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Many killed in gas chambers in 1943 before body parts taken to laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Experts thought they had been buried in a common grave three years later<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Includes a jar containing skin fragments and bodies cut into pieces<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Jewish organisation has called for a full investigation and proper burial<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"i-123c8378d5d2a956\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2015\/07\/19\/10\/2AAB2D6E00000578-3166977-image-m-14_1437298760116.jpg\" alt=\"The remains of 86 Jews used for Nazi experiments by SS captain August Hirt (pictured) have been found at a laboratory in eastern France, it emerged today\" width=\"306\" height=\"428\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The remains of 86 Jews used for Nazi experiments by SS captain August Hirt (pictured) have been found at a laboratory in eastern France, it emerged today<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The remains of 86 Jews used for Nazi experiments have been found at a laboratory in eastern France, it emerged today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">They had been killed in German gas chambers in 1943 during the Second World War Holocaust before their corpses and body parts were taken to the legal medical institute in Strasbourg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It was thought they had been buried in a common grave in 1946, following the liberation of the city by the Allies two years earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">But the Strasbourg authorities confirmed many of the remains were, more than 70 years on, still being stored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The discovery has raised serious concerns, with one organisation, which represents the UK Jewish community, stating that &#8216;serious questions&#8217; needed to be asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A Board of Deputies of British Jews spokesman said: &#8216;This discovery raises serious questions about who knew about these remains and why they did not reveal this sooner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8216;We would expect a prompt and full investigation in to these matters, and the remains of these victims to be accorded a respectful burial in accordance with Jewish law as soon as possible.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">August Hirt, an SS captain and chairman of the Reich University in the city, originally built up the macabre collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It included \u2018a jar containing skin fragments of a gas chamber victim,\u2019 historian Raphael Toledano revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Some of the bodies were cut into pieces, or burned, while all were destined to be used in experiments by scientists working for the so-called &#8216;Master Race&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Test-tubes containing the intestine and stomach of a victim was also found.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Most were originally found in containers full of alcohol when Strasbourg was liberated by the Allies in November 1944.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">But Mr Toledano said many of the remains were then preserved by Camille Simonin, a forensics professor who was investigating Hirt<\/span>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"i-48bae58e3c4f3177\" class=\"blkBorder img-share aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2015\/07\/19\/12\/2AAB5E1600000578-3166977-image-m-21_1437304203318.jpg\" alt=\"All had been killed in German gas chambers in 1943 during the Second World War Holocaust before their corpses and body parts were taken to the legal medical institute (pictured now) in Strasbourg\" width=\"634\" height=\"455\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>All had been killed in German gas chambers in 1943 during the Second World War Holocaust before their corpses and body parts were taken to the legal medical institute (pictured now) in Strasbourg<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"i-13489d8a81a23fec\" class=\"blkBorder img-share aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2015\/07\/19\/10\/2AAB349600000578-3166977-image-a-12_1437299677201.jpg\" alt=\"All of the remains will now be released to the Jewish community in Strasbourg, so that they can be buried at the Cronenbourg Cemetery (pictured)\" width=\"634\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">All of the remains will now be released to the Jewish community in Strasbourg, so that they can be buried at the Cronenbourg Cemetery (pictured)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\"><video controls=\"controls\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\"><source src=\"http:\/\/video.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/1418450360\/2015\/01\/1418450360_4008836387001_nazi-1422095063670.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\" \/><source src=\"http:\/\/video.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/1418450360\/2015\/01\/1418450360_4008836387001_nazi-1422095063670.mp4\" type=\"video\/ogg\" \/>Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\">Simonin had been told to carry out judicial autopsies in order to \u2018establish the conditions that had led to the death\u2019 of the victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A letter written by Simonin in 1952 \u2018mentioned the jars containing the samples taken in the course of judicial autopsies carried out on the Jewish victims of the Struthof gas chamber,\u2019 a statement released by the institute claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It added: \u2018The labels identify each piece with precision and mention the register 107969, which matches the number tattooed at the Auschwitz camp on the forearm of Menachem Taffel, one of the 86 victims.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">All of the remains will now be released to the Jewish community in Strasbourg, so that they can be buried at the Cronenbourg Cemetery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Hirt committed suicide in July 1945 before he could be tried for crimes against humanity in Nuremburg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Up to 4,000 French Alsatian Jews were systematically murdered during the wartime Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; 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