The program officially started in 1936 with the opening of a Lebensborn home - complete with decor and prospective mothers hand-picked by Himmler himself - in a little village outside Munich. ![]() Today, Tono - who was tasked with cleaning the blood off the floor - runs a maternity clinic, and displays documents in hopes the airmen won't be forgotten. Doctors stood trial, but no one was ever punished. The bodies were originally preserved in formaldehyde for further study, but evidence of the crimes was destroyed as the war came to a close. One man had part of his brain removed to see if it would be an effective treatment for epilepsy. Tono, the only surviving eyewitness to the vivisections, said the grisly experiments included injecting seawater into the men to see if it could be used like a saline drip, and removal of organs and parts of organs to see how long they could survive. Tono told The Guardian, "I did wonder if something unpleasant was going to happen to them, but I had no idea it was going to be that awful." Slowly, the POWs were escorted to the pathology department of the medical school. Four of the 12 died before they could be captured, and the others were taken to Fukuoka. ![]() ![]() The men were captured after the crash of their B-29 Superfortress (like the one pictured).
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