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05/30/2008: "Protests Erupt Over German Medical Group's Award to Ex-Nazi"

A spokesman for Germany's Central Council of Jews called the decision by the Professional Association of German Internists to honor Nazi doctor Hans-Joachim Sewering "a scandal."

On Saturday, May 24, Sewering was honored with the top award of the German internists group, known as the BDI.

The award was presented for having "perfomed unequalled services in the cause of freedom of the practice and the independence of the medical profession, and to the nation's health system," according to a BDI press statement.

But Stephen Kramer from the Central Council of Jews said Sewering's Nazi past was well known. In 1993 he was publicly pressured to decline the presidency of the World Medical Association because of his alleged Nazi activities.

[ So it is "alleged". He is found guilty on the basis of rumor. That's the real scandal. ]

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3366676,00.html