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

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Dr. Hochberger, in line with this request, examined the women, then issued a certificate on the result of the examination, which he sent to the women in a sealed envelope to the above-mentioned co-accused gynaecologists Dr. Kafka and Dr. As a rule, Dr. Hochberger was paid by the women themselves with amounts from 30.- to 50.- Ktsch, in a case with the amount of 60.-Ktsch. The findings are based on the own information of Dr. More beautiful, on the credible statements of the witnesses, as well as on the transcripts of the indication certificates, which were secured by the defendant Dr. Hochberger. Hochberger is responsible for the fact that the conditions prevailing in former Czechoslovakia almost forced him to submit indications. The submission of expert reports for the purpose of the pregnancy interruption was by no means pleasant to him, but since he had been the chairman of the Karlovy Vary District Medical Association, most doctors had followed him on this question. He had repeatedly made the proposal for the formation of an expert opinion, but it had never been achieved. He had treated each case individually and by no means stencilically. As a doctor he had thought purely medically and always expressed the view that this was to be reconciled with the view at that time. According to the results of the taking of evidence, it is possible that the defendant Dr. Hochberger had undoubtedly made an effort in the exhibition of the indication test. With an almost pedantic accuracy, he has listed the circumstances which seem important to him in the findings and has also carried out investigations which, according to the experts Dr. Weimann and