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Germany's doctors apologize for WWII experiments

The German Medical Association has apologised for the sadistic experiments carried out by Nazi doctors on Jews.

The body has admitted that many doctors under Nazi-rule during the Second World War were guilty of 'scores of human rights violations'.

German doctors performed pseudo-scientific experiments on concentration camp inmates, including at Auschwitz....

In a statement made in Nuremberg this week, the German medical association said 'these crimes were not the actions of individual doctors but involved leading members of the medical community'...

Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)