Germany's
medical association has adopted a declaration apologizing for sadistic
experiments and other actions of doctors under the Nazis.
In the
statement adopted earlier this week in Nuremberg, the association said many
doctors under the Nazis were "guilty, contrary to their mission to heal,
of scores of human rights violations and we ask the forgiveness of their
victims, living and deceased, and of their descendants."
In addition
to performing pseudo-scientific experiments on concentration camp inmates,
German doctors also were key to the Nazi's program of forced sterilization or
euthanasia of the mentally ill or others deemed "unworthy of life."
The medical
association says "these crimes were not the actions of individual doctors
but involved leading members of the medical community" and should be taken
as a warning for the future.
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