| Ernst Gunther Schenck |
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Prior to writing his Memoirs , Schenck was interviewed by O'Donnell for his account of Hitler's end, '' The Bunker ''. Schenck's encounter with Hitler came when he volunteered to work in an emergency casualty station located in the Reich Chancellory in April of 1945 , near the Fuehrerbunker . Although he did not have much experience with Surgery , he nonetheless helped out with a hundred or so major surgeries, without having access to proper supplies and instruments. During these surgeries, Schenck was aided by Dr. Werner Haase , who also served as one of Hitler's private physicians. Although Haase had much more surgical experience than Schenck, he was dying of Tuberculosis , and often had to lie down while trying in vain to give verbal advice to Schenck. Due to the combination of terrible conditions and his own inexperience, after the war, Schenck told O'Donnell was unable to track down a single German soldier he had operated on who had survived (he kept records of the operations). According to O'Donnell's composite account, Schenck only saw Hitler in person twice, for only a brief time - once when Hitler wanted to thank him for his emergency medical services, and once during the "reception" after Hitler's marriage to Eva Braun . Additionally, Schenck was actively involved in the creation of a large herbal plantation in Dachau concentration camp, which contained over 200,000 medicinal plants, from which, among other things, Vitamin supplements for the Waffen SS were manufactured. During the creation of this plantation in 1938 over 100 people died, according to recollections of prisoners. In 1940 he was appointed as inspector of nutrition for the Waffen SS. In 1943 Schenck developed a protein sausage, which was meant for the SS frontline troops. This was tested before its adoption on 370 prisoners, some of whom died. In his memoirs Schenck, stated that his only concern was to improve nutrition and fight hunger. However a report in 1963 condemned Schenk for "treating humans like objects, guinea pigs". In the Federal Republic Of Germany Schenck was not allowed to continue his medical career. Ernst-Günther Schenck died on December 21 , 1998 in Aachen . EXTERNAL LINKS He is mentioned in the book, '' The Nazi War on Cancer '', and there is [http://www.dropbears.com/b/broughsbooks/military/heinrich_himmler.htm] a book he wrote in German .
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