" Nazi criminals " and philanthropic Americans

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In the Nuremberg judgement, the Germans were found guilty of having
subjected detainees in the concentration camps to " cruel experiments ".

" The inmates were subjected to [...] high altitude experiments in
pressure chambers, experiments to determine how long human beings
could survive in freezing water, experiments with poison bullets,
experiments with contagious diseases, and experiments dealing with
sterilisation of men and women by X-rays and other methods " [IMT,
vol.I, p.262].

However, on March 25, 1993, the French weekly VSD informed its
readersthat during the Second World War the Pentagon had exposed :

" between 8,000 and 10,000 American soldiers aged 17 and 18 to mustard
gas in order to test the efficiency of protective clothing and masks.
Those who refused [to submit to] the experiment were threatened with
forty-year prison terms and [charges of] high treason if they talked(p.49).

These followed a flood of similar revelations :

On December 29, 1993, it was announced in the French press that, in the
1950s, a great number of experiments had been done on human guinea pigs.
For example :

- mentally handicapped adolescents had been served radioactive meals.

- 751 pregnant women in Tennessee had, without their knowledge, received
pills giving thema dose of radioactivity thirty times greater than the
average...

Worse was still to come ; in the 60s, these experiments continued :

- hospital patients received small doses of plutonium for its progress
through the organism to be tracked. For the most part they were very
gravely ill and already doomed to die ; but not all could be placed in that
category. So it was that a workman with a leg injury received a dose of
plutonium 239. Three later, his leg was cut off and taken away for
research.

- In 1963, 131 Oregon and Washington prison inmates received strong
doses of X-rays to hte testicles for observation of the effects os sperma-
togenesis. The Oregon inmates were later vasectomised.

For all the foregoing, see La Haute-Marne Libérée, December 29, 1993,
article entitled " Tests nucléaires sur des humains : les USA aussi "
("Nuclear tests on humans : the U.S.A too") and Sciences et Vie n° 917,
February 1994, pp.53 sq: " Le scandale des cobayes humains "
("The scandal of the human guinea pigs").

Conclusion on this subject of experiments with human guinea pigs :

1°) If thes are carried out by " Nazis ", they are " pseudo-scientific
experiments proving Nazi sadism and contempt for man ". They
must be recalled incessantly so that the general public will always
revile " Nazism ".

2°) If they are carried out by American researchers : conventional
scientific procedures whose objective is to advance medical science;
Therefore, not in the least reprehensible, although it's better to
conceal their existence from the general public...

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