Medicine: Health Under Hitler

The doctor whom Hitler appointed to be Führer of National Socialist Health turned out to be a naturopath. He licensed faith healers and all manner of quacks. Last year this Führer, Dr. Gerhard Wagner, died. His successor is not, as strongly rumored in U. S. medical circles, a veterinarian, but is in fact a well-trained pediatrician named Leonardo Conti, son of Hitler's solidly buxom "Führerin of Midwives."

Preparing to celebrate the end of his first year as Nazi Health Führer, Dr. Conti distributed to U. S. teachers and doctors good-looking statistics on German health....

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