STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2337, sig. 109-11/139

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The defendant Dr. Hochberger subjected the women to a medical examination, drew up the indication certificate and handed it over to the women in a sealed envelope to comply with Dr. Kafka. The Jew accused Dr. Kafka then interrupted the pregnancies in 54 women on the basis of the diagnoses he did not examine in individual cases, also due to the certificates of other doctors such as Dr. Kuklik, Dr. Löwenbein, Drs. Stern, etc. The average price of the accused Jew Dr. Kafca's for an abortion carried out on a woman from the Old Reich was 250 to 300.- RM. In some cases, such as Marianne Patzschke, Hildegard Morgenstern, Erika Wildhage and Ehrentrude Ruser, he received amounts up to looo.- RM, which he also demanded. The defendant had Dr. Kafka, as a rule, is the doctor's certificate to pay the inn and the costs of the sanatorium, as well as the assistant doctor who has been brought in to interrupt pregnancy. However, most of the fee received remained with him. While in all of the cases described so far, after the defendant's admission, the witnesses' information and the medical expert's report Dr. Weimann and Dr. In the case of Justina Amalie Schmidt, Wagner was certain that there was a pregnancy in the interrupted women. The same applies in the case of the Käthe Hermann, in which the possibility of the existence of a pregnancy on the basis of the results of the proof procedure was no longer verifiable. In these cases it must be assumed in favour of the defendant Dr. Kafka that a pregnancy did not exist and that these women, as well as also the accused Dr.Kafka only with the