Arrogant SS General Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal surgeon, had had a pretty good idea of what was coming. In the courtroom at Nürnberg last year, while his trial droned on, he doodled on a sheet of paper. On one sheet he drew a wooden gallows with 13 steps leading to the rope and noose. Beneath it he wrote: "Heil Hitler, ich komme bald" (I'm coming soon). Last week, in the courtyard of the Landsberg prison, Karl Brandt went to his gallows.* With him went six other Nazi doctors and SS officers, including Karl...
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