MME. VAILLANT-COUTURIER: As to the experiments, I have seen in the
Revier, because I was employed at the Revier, the queue of young
Jewesses from Salonika who stood waiting in front of the X-ray room for
sterilization. I also know that they performed castration operations in
the men’s camp. Concerning the experiments performed on women I am well
informed, because my friend, Doctor Hadé Hautval of Montbéliard, who has
returned to France, worked for several months in that block nursing the
patients; but she always refused to participate in those experiments.
They sterilized women either by injections or by operation or with rays.
I saw and knew several women who had been sterilized. There was a very
high mortality rate among those operated upon. Fourteen Jewesses from
France who refused to be sterilized were sent to a Strafarbeit kommando,
that is, hard labor.