English Translation

34 - 18 - In individual cases, apparently with even more advanced pregnancies, the accused Jew Dr. Kafka used the so-called small caesarean section. Here, above the chamois, the body was opened by a cut through the peritoneal membrane, then the opening of the uterus and the removal of it by means of a rubber-handled hand or with the fingers. Pregnancies of more than 6 months were interrupted in such a way that he initiated the early birth by the introduction of laminaria pens or also by the method Metrerrynther. Dr. Kafka made interruptions of pregnancy to ten women without the indication of another doctor and these are the cases : 17. of Justine Amalie Schmidt from Hof, 51. Martha Diwecka from Prague, 56th Marianne Hieke from Fischern, 57th Anna Sangel from Altenteich, 58th Eva Pleischer from Leipzig, 59th and 60th Emma Uhl from Königswart, 6th Julie Reinl from Bärringen, 62th Berta Pindor from Kitzbühl, 64th Anna Lang from Elbogen. In the remaining 54 cases, the defendant requested Jude Dr. Kafka of women in charge of pregnancy interruption alone for the purpose of presenting a medical certificate, for which a reason for the interruption of pregnancy should arise. He used to point out to women from the old kingdom that also in Czechoslovakia the abortion was not allowed without further permission and he was bound to the law. He then sent most of the women with a short inscription on his business card to the co-defendant Dr. Hoch- berger. He often also communicated to Dr. Höchberger by telephone, daB