This is not new; I just saw it and almost fell off my chair.
http://www.wiesenthal.com/...
http://www.badnazidoctor.com/...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...
http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/...
Despite being linked to the savage murder of 900 children in the Nazi death camps, a former SS doctor is to be awarded the German Federation of Internal Medicine's highest honour.
For decades, 92-year-old Dr Hans-Joachim Sewering has been protected by the Bavarian government and judiciary, avoiding prosecution for crimes he committed against mentally and physically disabled children during World War II.
Now this man has been singled out by his fellow German physicians for the Federation's most prestigious award, the Guenther-Budelmann Medal.
More than 900 orders to transfer children to Eglfing-Haar were made by Sewering, undertaken in the full knowledge that Eglfing-Haar was an extermination camp where tens of thousands of children with mental and physical disabilities were murdered.
He practised as a chest doctor here for the rest of his career.
It was not until Sewering was elected president of the World Medical Association that his crimes caught up with him. In January 1993, four Catholic nuns, who had previously vowed to keep silent about what had gone on at the Schonbrunn Sanatorium, finally - and at the personal bidding of the Archbishop of Munich - came forward. They proffered evidence alleging that Sewering had tested children during the Nazis' notorious 'Wild Euthanasia' programme, and had effectively signed the death warrants of 900 of them.
And yet Sewering still escaped prosecution - this time because as a senator in the Bavarian parliament, he was guaranteed immunity from crimes against humanity.
And now he is being honoured yet again (other honors mentioned in article - dov12348), with the most senior award that can be granted by the German Federation of Internal Medicine.
The wording of the prize's citation states that it is being presented for 'unequalled services in the cause of freedom of the practice and the independence of the medical profession and to the nation's health system'.
A former SS doctor accused of sending 900 sick children to their deaths under the Nazi euthanasia programme has been awarded a German medical association’s highest honour.
He allegedly signed orders sending 900 German Catholic children from the clinic to a "healing centre". The nuns stated that everyone at Schönbrunn, including the children themselves, knew that transfer to Eglfing-Haar "Healing Center" was a ticket to death.
In fact, it was a killing centre carrying out a secret Nazi policy of murdering the handicapped who were declared "useless eaters" by the Nazis before the war.
He refused to talk about the Nazi allegations.
There is little that I can add except to register my nausea and disgust upon discovering this.
Oh, yes -- one thing:
Both the German Medical Association and the American Medical Association
are members of the World Medical Association.
What has the AMA had to say about this? Nothing that I can find. In any case, apparently they're just fine retaining their association with an organization that rewards and honors Nazi child murderers.