(AFP) In a new documentary shown on French TV this week about the scale of Nazi medical experiments, Dr. Michel Cymes says the remains of Jews tortured and mutilated by SS doctor August Hirt may still be in the anatomy collection of the University of Strasbourg. Hirt tested mustard gas on Jews at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, 31 miles southwest of Strasbourg. Cymes said he had little idea how extensive Nazi medical experiments had been. "I knew about doctors like Josef Mengele and Carl Clauberg and I thought there were two or three others like that, but then I discovered how vast the phenomenon was." 23 doctors were tried at the Nuremberg trials which began in 1946.
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