Isiah
65:17 “For
here I am creating new heavens and a new earth; and the former things
will
not be called to mind, neither will they come up into the heart"
Children
To make a child
God spilled
out sunshine
It pooled beneath
His Hand
to form a smile
Their eyes He
formed from
dewdrops in the morning
So sadness could
just linger
there awhile
God knit the
child's frame
together with a spring breeze
So in their every
movement
there would be grace
And warmed their
heart with
kindling made of kindness
So all would see
the caring
in their faces
And then God
wrapped them
gently in a rainbow
Spun for their
spirit - beautiful
to see
And said:
"Whoever looks
upon a small
child
Shall know, deep
in his heart,
that he's seen Me.
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In
2002, Joe Berlinger
set out on a journey to Vienna, Austria to be witness to a burial. Joe
also had plans to find and hoped to be able to interview a man,
Heinrich
Gross. This was no ordinary burial and Heinrich was no ordinary
man.
Joe's
documentary about what
he learned and saw is called "Gray Matter". In what is considered to be
the actual beginning of the Holocaust, a man who, I, myself have a hard
time calling a Doctor, was running what was referred to as a "clinic of
euthanasia" at the Spiegelgrund mental hospital. Heinrich Gross, was a
doctor in charge of this clinic and by his own hands, there were over
700
who died. Not all of the children who were there died,
there were some
survivors. Some of those survivors took part in interviews and
the burial.
While
conducting what are
said to be supervised eugenic experiments, Heinrich Gross murdered over
700 children and then conducted
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experiments on the brain
tissues of
these
children while working for the Austrian Government.
As late as 1998,
this
man was legally able to continue this disgustingly atrocious kind of
experimenting
on the brain tissue of his victims. His experiments have earned him the
nickname of the Austrian Dr. Mengele.
In the
documentary are several
people who actually survived the experiments which were done
on these
children. These experiments included needles being put into their
brains while
they were still awake, for x-rays. At times, the child would move
and
the needle
would break, this is only one way in which some of
them died. One
woman describes
how she was taken from her home due to her family being
members of the
Jehovah's Witnesses and refusing to honor Adolf Hitler by saying
Heil Hitler.
<>"I was a legitimate child,
but, an orphan.
I was abandoned Because of neglect and abuse,
I
was taken
away from the foster family and brought to a
temporary
children's home.
From there I was sent to
Spiegelgrund for
20 months. We all wet our beds because of
the psychological
stress, fear, cruelty, punishment and
sadism"
Elfriede Durnecker
In his
documentary, Joe Berlinger
is granted access to the Spiegelgrund Hospital in the room where the
brains
and brain tissue samples of these children were stored. In row upon row
of jars, we see brains and parts of brains, which have been on the
shelves
for years, preserved and were just left on the shelves.
Through
painstaking efforts,
and with the utmost of care, each brain and tissue sample was
identified
as to which child it belonged to and in 2002 these children were
finally
able to rest in peace as each was buried and remembered properly. There
was a ceremony where the picture of each child was displayed above
their
name and age, held up by caring people, as a memorial where even some
of
the victims who had survived could walk along and view the pictures.
Some
of the victims could recognize the faces in the pictures as a relative
or a friend they had had back all those years ago.
Heinrich Gross
was never successfully
prosecuted for his crimes against these children, in fact, he was
honored
with awards and now lives off of a government pension. Heinrich claimed
he was never there when most of children were killed and in 2000 he was
still claiming his innocence during an interview:
"I was
always against
euthanasia. I never sped up anyone's death,
nor did I
assign anyone
to do so"
Update:
There were at
least two known
criminal actions brought against Heinrich Gross for what he did
to these
children. One took place a few years after the end of World War II.
That trial
resulted in a conviction for manslaughter, though it was later
overturned
on a technicality.
Another
attempt was made to
convict him for his proven involvement in deaths of nine children.
That case
was suspended indefinitely due to claims that he was senile and also
because of
his advanced age. Heinrich was found to be unfit to stand trial. MANY
people
disputed his claim since he gave an interview shortly after he was
found unfit
to stand trial. He seemed mentally sound to those who were there and
they say he
was able to understand the charges against him and that he would
have been able
to participate in his own defense.
In 2003, the
Honorary Cross
For Science And Art, which had been presented to him in 1975, was
stripped
from him.
Heinrich Gross
died on December
15, 2005.
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