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You actually expect that bunny has *read* his sources?
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I can assure you when I do read them I deal with them honestly. I had not quoted from any Dr Neander article aside from the conference paper in German which states clearly there was no trial. After a good deal of time and effort I tracked down the article Matthew Ellard dishonestly truncates his quote from
At least twice, in May 1947 and in February 1948, Spanner was reported to the police.
I would suggest there is a huge difference between "being reported to the police" and a trial. Dr Neander then goes through all the different investigations none of which suggested either a trial or a crime being committed.
Dr Neander has put a one or two of Dr Spanner's statements online including this
Excerpt from the interrogation of Prof. Spanner before the Hamburg, Germany, Criminal Police, May 13, 1947, page 4: (in German, maybe you can give a good translation into English, I do not know the special terminology)
"Beim Verlassen des Instituts sind die elektrischen Heizpatronen abgestellt, und deshalb schwimmt eine ca. 8-10 cm hohe, gelblich dicke, fettige Schicht an der Oberfläche, die hart ist und die der Schreiber des Artikels in 'Sowjet News' als Seife ansah. Ich weise nochmals besonders darauf hin, daß ja jede Mazeration mit Kalilauge bzw. Natronlauge einen Verseifungsprozeß zur besseren Auflösung des den Knochen anhaftenden Gewebes hervorruft."
Very roughly
"When we abandoned the Institute the electric heating units [for skeleton preparation baths] were turned off and there was swimming a a circa 8-10 cm high, yellow, fatty layer on the upper surface, which is hard and which the writer of the article in the Soviet News viewed as soap. I again would like to especially point out, that every maceration in calcium or sodium lye for the better removal of tissue clinging to the bones results in a soap creation process"
(thats a rather literal translation rather than a good translation
Doesn't look like he is confessing anything here. To the extent you might get some congealed substance, I might have been too hasty in dismissing Dr Neander's view; you can get all kinds of peculiar residues but these are hardly the type of residues once scraps off and uses as soap and I believe Spanner stated as much.
To the extent he admitted anything regarding injection into joints or ligaments, I assume he was just doing normal specimen preparation that with a bit of wink wink, nudge, nudge was used to evade the Soviet hate propaganda without directly confronting it.
The stakes were high for Prof Spanner, if he could find a formula that saved the face of the victorious Allies and avoided extradition, then I can't see why he wouldnt use it.
Mr Ellard, I think a lot of time would have been saved if you had just been a little more honest and said "OK I was wrong, he didnt face any trials but he did give statements to the police"
Would that have been so hard?
