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 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 ligitimate 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 manslaguther, though it was
later overturned on a technicatlity.
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. |
