The Doctor chose to be a Nazi

(Undated photo of Dr. Hans-Joachim Sewering)

If you were a Jew living in Germany in the 1930s, you lost the right to make decisions for yourself. You didn't chose to become a Jew, that's just what you were. You quickly became aware that people hated you because you were a Jew and as the years grew more violent you realized that the Nazis intended to kill you because of who you were, even though you did not chose to be a Jew.

In 1933, Dr. Hans-Joachim Sewering chose to join the Nazi SS. Back in 1993, the doctor told reporters "he had joined the SS Cavalry Corps in order to protect his medical career, but later admitted that he was a member of a regular SS batalion."

So, we know that the doctor is a liar, and was a Nazi. In 1934, he signed up with the Nazi Party, and in 1942 "he worked as a doctor in a special hospital for tuberculosis patients in Schoenbrunn near Dachau, Germany, where handicapped children were put to death in the Nazis' so-called euthanasia program."


The doctor's past would not be an issue today if it were not for the fact that he "was one of four physicians honored with the top award of the Professional Association of German Internists, known as the BDI, on March 30."

This isn't the first time Dr. Sewering's past has created a problem for him. He was investigated by prosecutors from Munich, but was not charged with a crime and the investigation was closed in 1993. Also in 1993, he was up for the presidency of the World Medical Association, but declined that particular honor when the World Jewish Congress threatened to lead a boycott of the WMA.

The BDI, 25,000 strong, is defending its choice of Sewering for this prestigious award. BDI president, Wolfgang Wesiack claimed that Sewering has made many contributions to the "freedom of the medical profession" in Germany.

Sewering, now 92 years of age, was unable to attend the awards ceremony.


Germany's Central Council of Jews was unhappy with BDI's decision. "This is absolutely wrong and it's a scandal," said Stephan Kramer, general secretary of the Central Council.

Sewering has served as president of the German Medical Association and is still an honorary member of that organization. He has always insisted that he was never took part in any murders. But we have proven that Dr. Sewering is a liar, so he is not to be believed.

But even if that were the case, as Efraim Zuroff, the Israel director of the Wiesenthal Center, said: "...the nurses working with Dr. Sewering knew that the patients sent to the killing center at Eglfing-Haar would very likely be murdered," so Sewering most likely knew as well."

In fact, four nuns alleged in January of 1993 that Sewering not only knew what was going on but participated "in the transfer of 900 German Catholic children from Schonbrunn Sanitarium to Eglfing-Haar ... where they died."

As Mr. Zuroff said, the BDI award is "an insult to his victims and their famililes, and is incomprehensible in the light of his record."


We agree. Giving this award to this doctor is indeed incomprehensible. To pretend that a doctor working at Schonbrunn did not know what was happening to children sent to Eglfing-Haar is disingenuous at best, unbelievably naive and criminally stupid.

Of all the physicians in Germany, you'd think the BDI would be able to find four that didn't include a doctor who chose to become a goddamn Nazi!

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