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Berlin to bury prisoners' tissue kept by Nazi-era doctor
« on: May 13, 2019, 09:30:00 am »
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Berlin to bury prisoners' tissue kept by Nazi-era doctor

More than 300 tiny pieces of human tissue from prisoners executed in Nazi-era Berlin will be buried on Monday.

The samples were found in microscopic slides at a property that belonged to Hermann Stieve - an anatomy professor at the Charité university hospital.

Heirs of the doctor, who died in 1952, discovered the collection in 2016.

Researchers say Stieve systematically collaborated with the Nazis to receive the bodies of 184 people, mostly women, executed for political resistance.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48215894

One of the victims was Mildred Harnack, born in Wisconsin, the only American woman executed on Hitler's direct order:



More on some of the victims here in an accompanying article by the BBC.

Some of these people were involved with the Reds... but however, it worked, there were 300 victims. Not all were that way.

@Once-Ler   One might check this article out, this poor woman was born in Wisconsin, the only American woman Hitler personally had executed.



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