Buchenwald was a
Class II concentration camp for political prisoners, who were mainly Communists.
It was not a death camp where Jews were brought to be systematically killed.
Buchenwald was for hard-core anti-Fascists who were considered more dangerous to
the German state than the political prisoners sent to Dachau or Sachsenhausen,
which were both designated as Class I camps.
General Patton also mentioned that
Buchenwald had "a number of allegedly eminent physicians" who were performing
"some very abominable experiments on their fellow inmates."
The only medical experiment that Patton cited as an example was one in
which 800 prisoners in the camp were "inoculated with anti-typhus vaccine and
then inoculated with the typhus bug." The vaccine was a failure, and 700 out
of the 800 died of typhus.
America had a typhus vaccine and
all the American soldiers had been vaccinated before going overseas. According
to the March 1945 issue of the Red Cross monthly bulletin, American soldiers
held as POWs in German camps were given booster shots of typhus vaccine, which
was delivered by the Red Cross and distributed by the Germans. Since this
vaccine was only given to Americans, the Germans were working to develop their
own vaccine for the rest of the prisoners and for the German Army.
General Patton's observation that
the camp was run by the "slaves" was basically correct. When the camp was
originally opened, the Nazis brought common criminals from the Sachsenhausen
camp near Berlin to run the camp internally. But after the first Commandant,
Karl Otto Koch, was relieved of his duties and sent to Majdanek, the new
Commandant, Hermann Pister, allowed the Communists to take over.
Buchenwald Survivors
Typhoid Fever (more a disease of adult life) is evolved by feeding and medicating acute indigestion and the treatment should be the same as for any of the foregoing so-called infectious fevers. Children: Their Health and Happiness by J. H. Tilden (1928)
In the U. S. Army in France in 1918, in several camps where sanitation and hygiene were grossly neglected, typhoid vaccination proved to be little or no protection, and it has been officially admitted to be a great failure, as typhoid epidemics prevailed extensively in said camps with a high death-rate among the well vaccinated men. See official report on this subject from the Chief Surgeon of the v A. E. F. in U. S. Public Health Reports of March 28, 1919, entitled, 'Typhoid Vaccination no Substitute for Sanitary Precautions." [1920 USA] HORRORS OF VACCINATION EXPOSED AND ILLUSTRATED BY CHAS. M. HIGGINS
Indeed, it is admitted in official reports that a similar careless practice as to false diagnosis and incorrect report of cause of death exists in some cases in the U. S. Army where, for example, actual typhoid fever in vaccinated men had been reported as "Influenza" and where death of vaccinated men from typhoid was entered as due solely to one of the complications such as "Peritonitis," "Broncho-Pneumonia. [1920 USA] HORRORS OF VACCINATION EXPOSED AND ILLUSTRATED BY CHAS. M. HIGGINS
The office of the Surgeon General of the U. S. Army in answer to my request for information on this point admits that many cases of sickness have been caused by smallpox and typhoid vaccination in the Army in the year 1917, but states that no deaths have been caused by any form of vaccination in said year 1917, and that the data for the year 1918 are not yet available. The figures admitted for sickness from the two forms of vaccination stated seem to be serious and significant and are now given below in the words of the letter addressed to me from the Surgeon General's office, March 15, 1919, as follows:
"The number of men admitted to sick report during 1917 for typhoid vaccination was 10,549, or a rate of 15.54 for each one thousand men.
"For smallpox vaccination the number admitted was 9,059, or a rate of 13.35 for each one thousand men.
"The total number of days lost as the result of typhoid vaccination was 28,679 and for smallpox 34,814." [1920 USA] HORRORS OF VACCINATION EXPOSED AND ILLUSTRATED BY CHAS. M. HIGGINS
It is well known that typhoid and cholera are both due to
sewage-contaminated food or water. By means of sanitary improvements, Britain got rid of
all of its cholera and most of its typhoid without any vaccines; and officials who now
recommend their use must be suspected of having dirty, stupid and slipshod minds and dealt
with accordingly.
...We were told that Wright’s
vaccine practically banished typhoid from the Gallipoli campaign. We know that
when men got typhoid after vaccination it was called "paratyphoid".
.....but the main fact....is that 96,684 men were invalided out from
Gallipoli
with enteric disease, which means that the health of the troops was many times worse than
it was during the Boer War. Insanitation (including vaccination) was, of course, entirely
responsible for this.
[1965 book] THE BLOOD POISONERS BY Lionel Dole]
How many of the 13,000 preventable deaths in the Boer War were due to inoculations for enteric ? It is well known that a potent cause of physical breakdown and failure in the field of large numbers in our army engaged in the late war in South Africa was the widespread inoculation for enteric. Dr. J. A. Jones, writing in the "British Medical Journal" in 1907, page 1767, states that in General Oku's vast army in the Russo-Japanese War, "there were less than 200 cases of enteric fever, and less than 400 of dysentery, and only 40 deaths," whereas in the Boer War "we lost more than 13,000 men from preventable disease alone." LEICESTER: SANITATION versus VACCINATION BY J.T. BIGGS J.P.
"These diseases (typhoid and pneumonia) are nothing more nor less than a cleansing process - a struggle of the vital powers to relieve the system of its accumulated impurities. The causes of the diseases are constipating foods, contaminated water, atmospheric miasmas, and whatever clogs up the system or befouls the blood. And the day is not far distant when a physician who shall undertake to aid and assist (suppress) Nature in her efforts to expel impurities, by the administration of poisons (drugs, medicines, shots, radiation, etc.) will be regarded as an insane idiot. But now this practice is called medical science."----Trall
"You cannot have a very severe round of typhoid fever unless you have a "first-class" physician to give it strength to down you...... I have not lost a case in 15 years (including typhoid and pneumonia), and I have treated hundreds. Fatality is attributable to the medication "----Tilden
"What can one do, for instance, about the idiotic boost which vaccine was given when a news bulletin included a story of how, when the drains in Tobago were damaged by hurricane "Flora", a typhoid epidemic was averted by mass immunization, "which seems to have been successful"—this, if you please, only about four days after the damage? We know that typhoid fever takes from 7 to 14 days to incubate, and the "shots" take from 10 to 20 days to "take" properly!" --Lionel Dole