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To: Annette who wrote (210809)	12/17/2001 11:47:25 PM
From: JEB	Respond to of 769667

Nazi doctor used children's remains for research, decades after war By George Jahn Associated Press VIENNA, Austria - A Vienna doctor accused of the Nazi-era killings of disabled children used the remains of the victims for research up to the mid-1960s, researchers said Friday. The case of neurologist Heinrich Gross, who is being investigated on possible murder charges, was the subject of much of the discussion Friday at a conference on Nazi euthanasia in Germany and Austria. Like many other professionals, Gross evaded punishment for his alleged crimes after the war and went on to achieve prominence in his field. His case has come to symbolize a fresh attempt by the Austrian capital to grapple with the Nazi past and decades-long attempts to protect those involved in its atrocities. Gross stood trial in 1950 in connection with the euthanasia of some of the hundreds of children ordered killed by the Nazis at what is now Vienna's main psychiatric institute - the site of the two-day symposium. But the case was thrown out on a legal technicality, and the state prosecutor's office dropped the charges without explanation. German historian Mathias Dahl said his research showed that Gross published five articles between 1955 and 1965 based on research using the preserved brains of children killed because they were deemed handicapped or anti-social. Six other articles published by him also likely used the same specimens, Dahl said. Gross again was brought to trial in the 1980s, but evaded punishment because of a 30-year statute of limitations on manslaughter. After the war, he had gone on to head Vienna's main psychiatric institute and was sought as an expert witness at trials up to last year. Gross lives just outside Vienna but refuses to talk to journalists. He has argued he was not present at the Vienna neurological hospital at the time in the 1940s when most of the children were killed. But Austrian historian Wolfgang Neugebauer cited a letter in late 1944 from the head of the hospital asking for a bonus for Gross for coming to work at the hospital voluntarily while being on leave from the German Wehrmacht. "This ... voluntary participation in children's euthanasia negates the argument of Dr. Gross that he was opposed to euthanasia and had reported to the Wehrmacht" instead, said Neugebauer. Prosecutors are now investigating possibilities of a new trial on murder charges, which are not covered by a statute of limitation. The new investigations were launched after the city last year publicized the existence of hundreds of preserved brains taken from the children after their death and used in medical research well into the post-war era. Their existence had not been widely known. Austrians long were taught they were victims of Hitler's Germany, but many now believe that the country must shoulder a large part of the blame for the Holocaust and other Nazi horrors. onlineathens.com

To: Annette who wrote (210809)	12/18/2001 6:09:06 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Dear Annette: Takes a special person to elect to have a severely disabled child. I bet if you could look INTO your neighbors mind you would find that was BRAVADO TALK and what she was REALLY FEELING was a sense of FEAR. JDN

To: Annette who wrote (210809)	12/18/2001 8:12:37 AM
From: maried.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

yep, it's a no brainer. If it has it...it will be gone I can't imagine anyone ever making such a coarse remark! Any young couple that I know who has had a amnio to determine Downs Syndrome was visibly upset and reflective. One couple said no matter what, they would keep the baby. Another said that they would find out first and then decide. But I can't imagine any couple who were happy about having a child would simply say,"It's gone!" I assume this was a defense mechanism to survive. Marie