The Emperor Hirohito was the longest reigning monarch in Japan’s history (1926 –1989); his reign is known as the Showa era. The release of an official, 61-volumes (12,000 pages) biography of Emperor Hirohito, in preparation since his death in 1989, continues to maintain the fictional image of Hirohito as a…
Looking back one wonders where were the mass protests against the importation of Nazi doctors and scientists? These were villains of the worst kind; criminals who had actively planned and devised “scientific” methods of torture, and developed the chemical methods used to exterminate millions of people whom they deemed to…
Of note is the re-publication of Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy (2014; originally published in 1988) by Christopher Simpson who served as a member of the interagency advisory panel for the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The NARA…
References for Chronology Pt. 3 Japan Atrocities Jake Adelstein. The Uncomfortable Truth About “Comfort Women,” Nov. 1, 2014 Herbert Bix. Hirohito: String Puller Not Puppet. Op Ed, NYT, Sept 30, 2014 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, 2000 Daniel Barenblatt. A Plague Upon Humanity: The Secret Genocide of Axis Japan’s…
Hank P. Albarelli. A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments, 2009; CIA’s Denial of Protecting Nazis is Blatant Lie, Pt. 1, 2, 2010. Tom Bower in The Paperclip Conspiracy, 1987 Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair White-Out: The CIA, Drugs and the…
I am here in vigorous opposition to SF 2841 that would implement mental health screening for three-year-old children entering public school.
An avalanche of recent scholarship During the first three decades of the 20th century, Germany was the leading nation in all fields of science and technology (“the Mecca of science”). German medicine and medical research was the most advanced in the world; and Germany’s medical code of ethics for human…
The founder of German racial science, Alfred Ploetz, said that America was the “bold leader in the realm of eugenics.” The philosophical underpinning for the murderous Nazi policies that culminated in the Holocaust – was a racist crusade masquerading as the science of Eugenics, Rassenhygiene (“racial hygiene”). Eugenicists deemed specific…
Sept. 16, 1933: The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, headed by Professor Ernst Rudin, MD, had “received a bequest of $1,000,000 (from an American donor) . . . as a culmination of many previous gifts.” December 21, 1933: A front-page report in…
“The medical crimes of the Third Reich were the result of a dynamic triad involving the state, the medical profession, and an academic enterprise comprising the universities and the research institutes.” (Seidelman, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2000) Germany was the birthplace of modern medicine in the early 20th century. The…
Before the Third Reich, German anatomists relied on unclaimed corpses from hospitals, psychiatric facilities, and prisons; but prisons were a minor source because Germany executed fewer than 20 civilians a year between 1907 and 1932. After the Nazis gained control, the government meted out death sentences for even minor infractions,…
Extracts from Deutsches Ärzteblatt (Journal of the German Medical Association) Nov. 1932: Dr. Haedenkamp, executive director of the Hartmannbund (one of the two largest German medical associations); he is editor of its journal, Deutsches Ärzteblatt (DÄ) sent a petition to the ministry of the interior: “with the request that it…
