A French university confronts medical crimes and its Nazi past

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STRASBOURG, France - For decades, students at the prestigious University of Strasbourg swapped rumours that human remains from Nazi victims, preserved as anatomical or pathological specimens, were st

ill somewhere on campus.

"There is a real effort toward becoming more aware of our history," said Michel Deneken, president of the university."It's a turning point." "We tried to reconstruct in its full detail how a heavily Nazified university medical faculty functions, with its large numbers of students and a lot of research funding being pumped into it, plus access to bodies," said Paul Weindling, a commission member and research professor at Oxford Brookes University.

But that same year, Raphael Toledano, a Jewish doctor in Strasbourg who was researching the Nazi period, found a letter written by Camille Simonin, a medical examiner and professor. Controversy ensued, leading to the commission's creation. Toledano left the committee in 2018 after internal disagreements - he thinks the research could have pushed further. Still, he praised the report.

 

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