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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 12, 1946
The Land of Plenty
Nazi Prisoner-Physician Strangled Poisoned More Than 3,000 Infants
New York. (UP)—A plump little woman sat in a sun-flooded New York apartment today and told how, as a prisoner-physician in a German concentration camp, she killed more than 3000 babies.
Her voice was calm, but her hands twisted nervously in her lap as she said:
"Some I strangled with my own hands. Others I poisoned."
As she gestured, the sun brought out clearly on her white left forearm the number tattoed in blue—A 25404—placed there by the Germans who held her in Auschwitz concentration camp from May, 1944, to the war's end.
"You understand," she said in rapid Hungarian, "I had to kill them, in order to save both them and their mothers from the gas chambers and the crematorium.
"I was placed in charge of the women's hospital—an old stable with no medicine and no instruments—in July, 1944. I saw immediately that all new born babies and their mothers were put to death.
"I began then systematically to abort all pregnant women, and to kill the babies of those who gave normal birth. I would work all day on the wounds of those who had been beaten by the Germans, and at night I would do one abortion after another.
Dr. Gizella Pearl, who was freed
"I was supposed to give the new babies to the Germans alive. I delivered them dead, to spare them pain in the experimental laboratories and the gas chambers."
"But I saved many women from otherwise certain death," she said.
by the British last September, said she had taken the lives of more than 3,000 infants.
The dark-haired, middle-aged woman who formerly operated with her husband a sanatorium at Sziget, Hungary, told then how her entire family-mother, father, husband, and 17-year-old son-had been killed by the nazis.
"I tried twice to commit suicide," she said. "They caught me each time. But now, in spite of the horrible things I have experienced, I want to live, I hope I can be useful."
Doctor Loses Trousers But Delivers Twins En Masse Nowadays
Hobart, Okia, (UP)—Dr. J. P Braun simply refuses to be distracted when delivering babies, especially twins.
A safety pin, on which he relied too heavily, gave way and he felt his trousers slipping. Unable to grab them, he wigged out of them and kicked them to one side.
"It was so early in the morning there wasn't much of an audience," the doctor said, "and anyway I had on a physician's
He retrieved the trousers after spanking the second identical twin son of Mr. and Mrs. Jewel Riley of Cooperton, Okla.
Flour Black Market Prophesied by Bakers
Washington. (UP)—The American Baking association said today a proposed Agriculture department order reducing millers' flour deliveries by 25 per cent "can mean only a black market for bread."
John T. McCarthy, president of the association, said he had learned of the planned order and had advised all state baking groups that it was expected soon.
McCarthy said the effect of the order in many areas would be to cut present production of bread in half "That can mean only a black mar-
A department of Agriculture spokesman said new measures are necessary because it is evident that the U.S. cannot meet its commitments to starving countries abroad with the present conservation program.
McCarthy said bakers would have no objection to measure made necessary by a genuine shortage of grain.
"But there is no shortage of grain," he said. "The situation has been by an administrative means the handling of meat and grain prices."
Keitel Admits Guilt
Nuernberg, (UP)—Marsshall Wilhelm Keitel admitted before the War Crimes court now that the fate of 50 British airmen, recaptured after their escape from a German war prisoner camp, was sealed at a conference of himself, Adolph Hitler and Heinrich Himmel.
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