[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 30, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1403-E1404]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        RESOLUTION TO BRING DR. HANS JOACHIM SEWERING TO JUSTICE

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                          HON. LYNN C. WOOLSEY

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 30, 1996

  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, today, I am introducing a concurrent 
resolution with Senator Rick Santorum calling for an official 
investigation of Dr. Hans Joachim Sewering by the German Government. At 
the time of Hitler's reign in Germany, Dr. Sewering was a member of the 
Nazi SS and the medical director of the Schenbrunn Sanitarium in 
Bavaria, Germany. During his tenure at this clinic for mentally and 
physically handicapped children, Dr. Sewering ordered the deaths of 909 
innocent children.
  After the war, Dr. Sewering was not punished. His crimes were never 
even acknowledged by the German Government. In fact, Dr. Sewering went 
on to achieve a successful medical career in the German State of 
Bavaria. He thought that the world had forgotten the children that he 
sent to death.
  But, in 1993, four Franciscan nuns who were witnesses to this 
atrocity broke their vow of silence in order to bring Dr. Sewering to 
justice. Yet, to date, the Bavarian Government refuses to investigate 
this matter or press charges.
  Thanks to the Anti-Defamation League and my constituent, Michael 
Franzblau, M.D., the world has not forgotten the helpless children who 
dies at the hands of this man.
  Dr. Hans Joachim Sewering must be exposed for what he is, a Nazi war 
criminal.

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Please join me, and this resolution's 10 original cosponsors, in 
calling for the investigation and prosecution of Dr. Sewering for his 
crimes against humanity during the Second World War.

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