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December 23, 2005
The Good Die Young
Sorry about this but I thought I'd spread some holiday cheer by reminding us all how everyone finally gets their due in this world, and how justice prevails. Here's how it works: you torture and murder children you deem inferior. You get away with it. You publish papers using the data. You live to be 90. Cases against you get thrown out on technicalities, statute of limitations, and false claims of dementia. You die in bed.
VIENNA, Austria - Dr. Heinrich Gross, a psychiatrist who worked at a clinic where the Nazis killed and conducted cruel experiments on thousands of children, died Dec. 15, his family announced Thursday. He was 90.Gross, who was implicated in nine deaths as part of a Nazi plot to eliminate "worthless lives," had escaped trial in March after a court ruled he suffered from severe dementia. No cause of death was given in a brief statement issued by his family.
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He became a prominent neurologist after the war and was awarded the prestigious Austrian Honorary Cross for Science and Art in 1975. He was stripped of the medal in 2003.
He was put on trial three times, but all the cases were dismissed. In a trial in the 1950s, the case was thrown out because of legal technicalities. A second case in the 1980s was dismissed because the 30-year statute of limitations on manslaughter had expired.
A third trial in 2000, in which Gross was accused of complicity in the murder of nine handicapped children who died as the result of abuse, was suspended after a psychiatrist testified he was unfit for trial because of advanced dementia.
Immediately after the suspension, Gross gave lively interviews in a local coffeehouse.
Isn't it grand?
Posted by zeynep at December 23, 2005 01:26 PM