from the outset the an atomic or institute in strasbourg was a center for in fumin experiments planned and perpetrated within a university setting. sitting in the front row at that opening ceremony was johann is shine my grandfather. as dean of the medical faculty for responsibility for everything that happened there. what was his response to hear its plans. even on family photos he always posed in uniform later after the war our family would say that he was only a fellow traveler to the regime far too absent minded and cerebral to be involved in anything political his daughter is my mother and she suspected that this couldn t be the whole story. what does.
so it is possible that my grandfather had known about the murder jews but he certainly must have known of some other crimes committed at the university on march seventeenth one nine hundred forty three department h. of the institute for military research met in strasbourg august here and auto pic and reported on the results of their human experiments the meeting was attended by both of us and my grandfather you know hamish dying. there is further evidence suggesting that my grandfather took an interest in research on ray. szell biology in a letter dated july sixteenth one thousand nine hundred three he personally supported the idea of carrying out so-called racial examinations on indian prisoners of war.
occupied a table at home until late into the night. legal scholar and. was among those invited to strasbourg for a preliminary interview at the restaurant he described the evening in his memoirs. the meal was of assumptions less beyond anything we knew the white house station wine a super burgundy and elegant champagne and in between the brutal armagnac. and stored up who was a preeminent legal expert serving the third reich his most significant work was a synthesis of nazi constitutional law which sought to provide a legal underpinning for the regime. the book was typical of who in that it was an overwhelming compilation of material and it was a perfectionist in many respects and try to take everything into consideration including regulations that for example address the exclusion of jews and some of
in june one thousand nine hundred forty four the allies landed in normandy in strasbourg it was clear that the war was drawing ever closer many more students were drafted into the german armed forces the professors were already making plans to bring their families to safety. that not mine it an ordinance my parents brought us to my antolin del so my top and when he stayed behind for a while longer. i think they also wanted to find a safe place for their furniture. to prevent it from being destroyed should have been hit our house. once us hollis. three pm on aug eleventh one nine hundred forty four trust book experienced its first major air raid. live on. when we were in the cellar and my brothers and sisters stayed in their rooms up in the attic. it monday. the bin it ran up and
students had fought for their beliefs and for freedom. that cost them their lives. as in tucson to this death what was interesting is that the right university of strasbourg was also one of the very few examples of resistance of analytical resistance to the nazi regime front a resistance has been largely forgotten by historians and quite on fairly so including in strasbourg. beach. meanwhile the tide had turned on the eastern front and the. war was also making itself felt in strasbourg with fuel and food now in ever shorter supply daily life became less comfortable the newspaper provided tips on running a more efficient household. almost forty percent of the professors had now been drafted into service by grandfather janusz was also sent to the eastern front. here