Editor in Chief Bill | 20 Jul 2015 3:26 p.m. PST |
A decade of investigating Nazi holocaust victims has led a researcher to the discovery of the remains of as many as 86 Jewish victims, in test tubes and a jar in a medical facility in France.Raphael Toledano – a researcher from Strasbourg — stumbled upon a 1952 letter from Camille Simonin, the director of the forensic science school at the University of Strasbourg, detailing the storage of tissue samples taken from some of the 86 Jews gassed for the experiments of August Hirt, a notorious Nazi anatomy researcher. The letter's brief reference to the samples began a hunt that finally ended this month, with the discovery of the jars and test tubes found behind a glass cupboard in a locked room at the Strasbourg Forensic Medical Institute in the eastern French city… link |
53Punisher | 20 Jul 2015 3:32 p.m. PST |
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abelp01 | 20 Jul 2015 5:27 p.m. PST |
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Ashokmarine | 20 Jul 2015 6:56 p.m. PST |
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morrigan | 20 Jul 2015 7:22 p.m. PST |
Yet it's ok that the Russians had a piece of what they said was Hitler's skull…… |
Lascaris | 20 Jul 2015 8:44 p.m. PST |
I don't think the russians were doing any experiments on Hitler before he was dead, unlike the remains of the poor people in the article. |
Dn Jackson | 20 Jul 2015 10:37 p.m. PST |
Morrigan, no offense, but how can you draw any sort of moral equivalence between the two? One is sick, twisted, brutal man who was responsible for the deaths of millions, the other the victims of a sick system. |
jpattern2 | 21 Jul 2015 5:16 a.m. PST |
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morrigan | 21 Jul 2015 5:36 a.m. PST |
My point is that if one set of human remains is to be treated with respect, then shouldn't all human remains be shown the same courtesy? I'm not sure that who the person was in life should affect that. |
Winston Smith | 21 Jul 2015 6:23 a.m. PST |
Hitler's remains should not be treated with respect. |
RavenscraftCybernetics | 21 Jul 2015 7:55 a.m. PST |
Intellectually, I want to agree with morrigan.
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nazrat | 21 Jul 2015 9:17 a.m. PST |
I don't think the way the remains were treated is the problem. It's the fact that these poor people were EXPERIMENTED on that brings up the revulsion. Hitler (every piece of hime no matter where it may lie) can rot in hell for all I care. His remains have NOTHING to do with this. |
Razor78 | 21 Jul 2015 10:43 a.m. PST |
"I still wish Osama Bin Laden's body had been stuffed in a pig carcas prior to disposal." What makes you think it wasn't? |
Patrick Sexton | 21 Jul 2015 11:06 a.m. PST |
Morrigan, on this subject, I could not disagree with you more. AND, much as I wish OBL was sewn into a pig carcass and thrown overboard, I don't think he was. Which is a shame. |
floating white bear | 21 Jul 2015 11:20 a.m. PST |
I fail to see the relevance of this posting to miniature gaming. More Dawghouse bait for the cheerleaders? |
Gwydion | 21 Jul 2015 4:28 p.m. PST |
Interesting piece Bill. Morrigan what relevance has the Russian/Hitler comment? No-one was saying anything about collecting bits of dead mass murderer. Murdered and tortured innocents in a racist bloodbath are a different matter. This isn't about respect for remains. This is about respect for humanity. Get a grip. |
Winston Smith | 21 Jul 2015 6:53 p.m. PST |
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Editor in Chief Bill | 21 Jul 2015 7:54 p.m. PST |
I fail to see the relevance of this posting to miniature gaming. More Dawghouse bait for the cheerleaders? Historical discussion has always been part of miniature wargaming on TMP. |
Editor in Chief Bill | 21 Jul 2015 8:04 p.m. PST |
I don't think the russians were doing any experiments on Hitler before he was dead, unlike the remains of the poor people in the article. From the article, it's not clear if the experiments were done before or after death, but the fact that people were killed so they could be used as specimens is appalling. |
David Manley | 21 Jul 2015 9:38 p.m. PST |
Don't ask too many questions about where a lot of data in everyday use today regarding human tolerability to injury has come from…… |
Dn Jackson | 21 Jul 2015 10:30 p.m. PST |
"My point is that if one set of human remains is to be treated with respect, then shouldn't all human remains be shown the same courtesy?" I have to disagree. The remains of innocent victims of an evil dictatorship, killed for medical experiments should be treated far better than the remains of a mass murderer. |
Weasel | 21 Jul 2015 11:32 p.m. PST |
Morrigan what relevance has the Russian/Hitler comment? No discussion on the internet can involve Nazi atrocities without someone piping in to remind us that they really weren't all that bad. |
morrigan | 22 Jul 2015 5:17 a.m. PST |
I put a thought out there about the treatment of human remains Weasel. Please don't talk like you know me. |
Weasel | 22 Jul 2015 9:43 a.m. PST |
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