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Title

1st German ed. (1979)

{en} Günther Schwarberg. The Murders at Bullenhuser Damm: The SS Doctor and the Children, tr. Henri Nannen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

• English tr. by Henri Nannen. Der SS-Arzt und die Kinder: Bericht über den Mord vom Bullenhuser Damm <German> (Hamburg [Germany]: Gruner und Jahr, 1979).

Abstract

"On the night of April 20, 1945, 20 Jewish children who had been used in medical experiments at Neuengamme, their four adult caretakers and six Soviet prisoners were murdered in the basement of the school ... The twenty Jewish children (10 boys and 10 girls, age 5 to 12, from Poland, France, Italy and Slovenia) came from Auschwitz concentration camp. They were chosen by Josef Mengele and sent to Neuengamme as a "gift" to his colleague Kurt Heissmeyer, to be used as guinea pigs for experiments on tuberculosis"--Publisher description.

About the Author

Günther Schwarberg (1926-2008) was a German journalist and author whose 1979 series of articles in German news magazine Der Stern and subsequent book "The SS Doctor and the Children" brought the World War II era war crimes committed in Neuengamme concentration camp and Bullenhuser Damm School in Hamburg to the public's conscience in Germany, and the rest of the world.