sandoz and medical fascism

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 "swiss companies were deeper involved into nazi crimes than one had assumed up 
 to now. for example, the swiss chemical company sandoz [where albert hofmann  
 came across lsd at about the same time, kfl] was detailedly informed about the 
 nazis' euthanasia program and did even execute clinical experiments among 
 mentally handicapped and epileptics. in an internal sandoz note of late 1942,  
 which sounds completely like nazisprech, the hope to find new probationers gets 
 expressed like this: 'although the clinics for epileptics like bethel, liebenau 
 etc got cleared away in the course of the extermination of valueless human   
 material [vernichtung lebensunwerten menschenmaterials] and replaced by other 
 projects, there, however, will certainly be many new cases of traumatical 
 epilepsy because of the war'. with this, as the historians who now did research 
 for the swiss government write in their final report, sandoz had integrated the 
 nazi murders into their 'business calculation'." 

                        --- "der spiegel", 36/2001, p. 137, own translation ---

kfl