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More than 300 tiny pieces of human tissue from prisoners executed by the Nazis have been buried at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery

Berlin, May 13 2019.

Dr Sabine Hildebrandt is a German-born anatomist who published a book about ethical transgressions and anatomical science in the Nazi period.

In 2013 she explained to the BBC that Stieve exploited their policies  including the increased use of the death penalty as a punishment.

“Before 1933, he was able to source the bodies of executed men, but no women; Germany was not executing women,” she said.

“Then, suddenly, during the Third Reich, women were being executed too.”

Because he was not a member of the Nazi party, Stieve was not prosecuted after World War Two.

In a statement, Dr Karl Max Einhäupl, CEO of the Charité, said the burial was part of an effort by the hospital to confront its – and German medicine’s – difficult relationship with Nazism.

“By burying the microscopic specimens at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery, we want to help restore to the victims some of their dignity,” he said.

 

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The samples were found in microscopic slides at a property that belonged to Hermann Stieve – an anatomy professor at the Charité university hospital.

Heirs of the doctor, who died in 1952, discovered the collection in 2016.

Researchers say Stieve systematically collaborated with the Nazis to receive the bodies of 184 people, mostly women, executed for political resistance.

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The tissue pieces – most less than a millimetre long – were discovered at Stieve’s estate, stored in small black boxes, including some labelled with names.

Once found, they were handed to Berlin’s Charité university hospital, who tasked staff at the German Resistance Memorial Center (GDW) to research their history.

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The burial ceremony on Monday took place at Berlin’s Dorotheenstadt Cemetery. The grave is near an existing memorial to victims of the Nazis.

The samples were interred in one small coffin measuring 30cm x 30cm x 40cm (12ins x 12ins x 16ins), GDW director Johannes Tuchel told the BBC.

Some of the people dissected by Stieve were high-profile – including 13 women from the Red Orchestra anti-Nazi resistance group.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48215894

Stieve, who worked at the University of Berlin, received the bodies of German anti-Nazi fighters for dissection, sometimes just minutes after they were killed at the Berlin-Ploetznesee prison.

He is thought to have received 182 victims, 174 of whom were women. Among his subjects were 13 of the 18 women decapitated by the Nazis for their work in the Red Chapel resistance group, Bildreported.

Some accounts of his work suggest he used record-keeping from the prison to evaluate how the women had coped with their prison sentence and reacted to their death sentences.

Work fueled many false rumors

However, reports that Stieve ordered the death of prison inmates according to their menstrual cycle, or that SS officers were encouraged to rape some prisoners to help study sperm migration, have been debunked.

After Stieve dissected the bodies, they were mostly cremated and interred, sometimes in mass graves.

Source: https://www.dw.com/en/human-remains-kept-by-nazi-doctor-set-for-berlin-burial-report/a-48322302

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