Friday, December 03, 2004
Italian Doctor Who Fooled Nazis - BBC News
A retired Italian doctor has revealed for the first time how he invented a fictitious disease which ... terrified the Nazis and saved 45 Roman Jews. ...
As other Jews were being rounded up, Dr Sacerdoti admitted anyone who could reach the hospital as patients - and diagnosed them with a dangerous disease.
"We would write on their medical forms that the patient was suffering from K Syndrome," he said. "We called it K after the German commander Kesserling - the Nazis thought it was cancer or tuberculosis, and they fled like rabbits." ...
A retired Italian doctor has revealed for the first time how he invented a fictitious disease which ... terrified the Nazis and saved 45 Roman Jews. ...
As other Jews were being rounded up, Dr Sacerdoti admitted anyone who could reach the hospital as patients - and diagnosed them with a dangerous disease.
"We would write on their medical forms that the patient was suffering from K Syndrome," he said. "We called it K after the German commander Kesserling - the Nazis thought it was cancer or tuberculosis, and they fled like rabbits." ...
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