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“I am desperate to communicate with the past, but so much of it is elusive, scattered, unknowable. I’m all too familiar with the frustration of sifting through fragments of truth and possibility for answers to my questions.”

Using some 700, mostly Jewish women as subjects, the non-surgical sterilization method developed by Clauberg consisted of introducing into female reproductive organs a specially prepared chemical irritant that produced severe acute inflammation. Within several weeks, the fallopian tubes grew shut and were blocked, and x-rays were performed to check the results.

In June 1943, Clauberg wrote:
“The non-surgical method of sterilizing women that I have invented is now almost perfected… As for the questions that you have directed to me, sir Reichsführer, on the time necessary to sterilize a thousand women in this way, I can today answer them in the way that I had anticipated: if the research that I am carrying out continues to yield the sort of results that it has produced so far (and there is no reason to suppose that this shall not be the case), then I shall be able to report in the foreseeable future that one experienced physician, with an appropriately equipped office and the aid of ten auxiliary personnel, will be able to carry out in the course of a single day the sterilization of hundreds, or even 1,000 women.”

In 1621, Wampanoag Indians investigated gun and cannon fire at a Pilgrim settlement to see them celebrating a successful harvest. The Indians — all male warriors, were fed as a gesture of peace. The act was not repeated annually.

In 1636, when a murdered man was discovered in a boat in Plymouth, English Major John Mason collected his soldiers and killed and burned down the wigwams of all the neighboring Pequot Indians who were blamed for the murder.

The following day, Plymouth Governor William Bradford applauded the massacre of the 400 Indians, including the women and children. The Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, William Newell, proclaimed: “From that day forth, shall be a day of celebration and thanks giving for subduing the Pequots.”

For the next 100 years, every Thanksgiving Day ordained by a governor was in honor of the bloody victory, thanking God that the battle had been won.

A Dutch pediatrician studied children with celiac who became healthier while they were starving to death because Nazis blocked food shipments. Thanks to his dedication to his patients, we now know that celiac disease is caused by gluten. He saved many lives.

Because of his work, Europe takes celiac disease very seriously and children are screened as a routine practice. During the same time, an American doctor was touting an "all banana diet" for children with celiac (which was effective only because bananas are gluten-free), and claimed this was curative, so children could grow into adults who could eat gluten (consequently getting very sick again).

The Dutch pediatrician was never taken seriously in the U.S. because of Dr. Banana's fame, and this is likely why the U.S. is so far behind in celiac testing and treatment compared to Europe.

He was being considered for a Nobel prize for this work, but unfortunately passed away before the winners were announced, and prizes are not awarded posthumously.