He asked for medicine, not engineering. Maybe some Mengele quotes will help you you jackass.
CRAIG R. WHITNEY,
Published: January 16, 1993
The president-elect of the World Medical Association has acknowledged that he was a member of the Nazi SS before World War II.
But Dr. Hans Joachim Sewering, 76 years old, a leading figure in German medicine for many years, rejected accusations by opponents to his nomination that as a young physician during the war he had sent a 14-year-old tuberculosis victim to death as part of a Nazi euthanasia program.
"I was 17 in 1933 when I had to join the SS," Dr. Sewering said in a telephone interview on Thursday from his home in Dachau, site of a Nazi concentration camp. "But later I joined the armed forces and was no longer active in the SS except in its cavalry branch, the only part of the organization not accused of war crimes."
Prof. Michael M. Kochen of the University of Gottingen and doctors from the United States, Canada, and Israel have been campaigning against Dr. Sewering becoming president of the international organization next October. The American Medical Association is a member of the group.
Dr. Sewering's opponents say that his former membership in the Nazi Party makes him unsuitable for the international post.
The charges against Dr. Sewering were first made by Der Spiegel magazine in 1978. It reported then that as a doctor at Schonbrunn tuberculosis hospital in 1943, Dr. Sewering had sent at least one patient to Eglfing-Haar. According to Dr. Kochen, this was "a well-known euthanasia center of the Nazis."
Dr. Sewering responded that the Roman Catholic church authorities responsible for those institutions before and after the war had rejected Der Spiegel's charges soon after they were made, and that he had been cleared by the West German Government, which awarded him highest civilian honors in 1975, 1981 and 1986.
Dr. Karsten Vilmar, chairman of Germany's National Chamber of Physicians in Cologne, said in a telephone interview today that the organization maintained its support for Dr. Sewering as president-elect of the world group, which designated him last fall.
"The charges were proven baseless in 1978, but they keep coming up," Dr. Vilmar said. "We never would have suggested anyone who was involved in the euthanasia program as a candidate for the presidency of the World Medical Association." Resigned as Group Head
Dr. Sewering was president of the German physicians' group from 1973 to 1978, but resigned in 1978 after Der Spiegel made the original charges and wrote an article questioning his billing practices. He has never taken legal action to force the magazine to retract its charges, though he has done so to keep others from repeating them.
He said that the Catholic order that ran Schonbrunn had authorized the discharge of the patient, a 14-year-old girl named Babette Frowls, and that the Nazi euthanasia action had been stopped in 1941.
"I still work as a consultant to Schonbrunn," Dr. Sewering said. "The order would never have kept me on if I had done such a thing."
Dr. Kochen, also reached by telephone, said: "To say the charges are baseless is simply a lie. The Frowls case is simply the only one that ever became known. He had to have known what would happen if he sent the girl to Eglfing-Haar.
"His forthcoming presidency of the World Medical Association should be intolerable for the German medical community, especially in these times," Dr. Kochen said. "He isn't yet president, and there's time to select somebody else."
