A German doctor who allegedly sent 900 children to a Nazi death camp has been
given a top medical award.
Dr Hans-Joachim Sewering, 92, a former SS member, was honoured
for “services to the nation’s health system”.
The doctor has always denied sending children to Eglfing-Haar, a facility south
of Munich where it’s alleged physically and mentally
handicapped children were killed.
Despite the allegations, Dr
Sewering enjoyed a brilliant career and is a former head
of Germany’s doctors’ association. The Nazis are known
to have coerced doctors into reporting disabled patients
during “Action T-4”.
Many alleged Nazi war criminals
have either died or disappeared with out a trace, but
Dr Sewering still lives openly in Dachau, north of Munich,
near the site of the concentration camp of the same name.
While established Nazi hunters
at the Simon Wiesenthal centre have launched 'Operation
Last Chance' in an attempt to track down any remaining
fugitives before they die, Dr Sewering has been the target
of a long, lone campaign led from the US by a fellow
doctor.
Dr Michael Franzblau has spent
tens of thousands of pounds of his own money to bankroll
an effort to see Sewering prosecuted.
“I would like the German medical
profession to recognize that they have a stain on their
honour by his continued presence,” he has said in speeches
in the US.
Dr Franzblau, who claims he
is motivated by a moral imperative as “a physician, an
American and a Jew” even took out a full page advertisement
in the New York Times costing more than £30,000 asking:
“Why is the German state of Bavaria harbouring an accused
war criminal?"
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