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	the effect that the accused took sections of the internal organs of the freshly murdered victims (Lebendfrisches — Material) and suitably prepared them. That action the accused explained by his interest in the changes which occur in the human body as a result of starvation. Doctor Wirthe had allowed him (Kremer) to collect the material which interested him, from prisoners put to death by injections of phenol. So the accused Kremer watched the prisoners who, among those destined "for liquidation", particularly interested him and on every occasion instructed the sick?bay attendants to reserve those prisoners for Kremer. On the appointed day the accused Kremer came, and, after the prisoner had been laid on the table, he asked for the details he needed to know, after which the sick?bay attendant gave the prisoner on the table an injection of phenol. After the death of the victim a doctor prisoner took from the body sections of the liver and the pancreas; the accused Kremer took those, suitably prepared them and sent them to Muenster. The accused Kremer also admitted that deputizing for the camp doctor he, on several occasions, carried out examinations (selections) as a result of which a group of weak persons condemned to death were "dispatched": (Vol. 59, p. 26). There can be on doubt therefore that the accused Kremer selected for death the so-called "Moslems" who were being-killed off in masses in the camp. The witness Stanislaw Glowa (Vol. 59, p. 27) stated that he remembers the accused well and that the accused carried out in the "sick block" (hospital) selections of the prisoner in as ruthless a manner as that of the other SS doctors. At the selections Kremer did not examine the sick, he assessed them by their appearance. At selections he often used the junior officers of the sanitary services (Klehr, Scherpe). Another witness. Ludwik Nagraba (Vol. 61, p. 242) who worked in a "special brigade" (Sonderkommando), stated that the accused Kremer took part in selections on the station platform and was on duty in the crematorium. It is impossible to name the exact number of victims for whose death the accused is responsible. If it were assumed that in every gassing operation there perished only several hundred people (and there was one when 1,600 victims died) then on the basis of Kremer's diary alone it can be assumed that he is guilty with others of the deaths of at least several thousand persons. It is also made clear in the accused Kremer's diary that he, as a phy- (...sician)
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