Category: Sterilization
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How One Woman’s Forced Sterilization Led To A Mayhem Charge and Exposed A Secret World of Medical Atrocities
In January 1936, twenty-one-year-old Ann Cooper Hewitt, the well-known San Francisco heiress, called a press conference alongside her attorney and announced that she was suing her mother, Maryon Cooper Hewitt. Ann claimed that she had been secretly sterilized at the behest of her mother, who paid two doctors to perform the procedure in order to…
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Phenol injections – originally used by the Nazis as part of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program – were used as a means of individual execution by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
The toxic effect of phenol on the central nervous system, causes sudden collapse and loss of consciousness in both humans and animals; a state of cramping precedes these symptoms because of the motor activity controlled by the central nervous system.[“Phenol”. Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Vol. 25. Wiley-VCH. 2003. pp. 589–604.] Injections of phenol were used as a…
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Rather than medical killing being subsumed to war, the war ‘itself was subsumed to the vast biomedical vision of which “euthanasia” was a part.’
The genetic and racial health or ‘purity’ of the Volk was as integral and inseparable a part of the scheme for eastern conquest as the destruction of Bolshevism, the desire for Lebensraum or the drive for raw materials, a master thread in a closely woven comprehensively Germanic ‘system’. At the psychic level it was probably…
