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(1948) [MARC] Author: Folke Bernadotte
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asking if it really was right to lengthen the lives
of these people if one knew that they would never
regain their health, But Professor Schönbauer
rejected this observation very firmly: the science of
medicine, he said, should not give up, it is the duty
of every doctor to do everything to prevent death.
He confessed that there were cases when even a
doctor would lose faith. But in any case one schould
not digress from the duty of medical science to
maintain life as long as possible. Look at Naziism,
he said, they started to introduce the principle of
killing off incurables and look at the horrible
consequences,

What is the nature of Russian policy in Austria?
It was this question which, before everything else,
before all the internal, social and economic
problems, was debated in the leading circles in Vienna.
I was told of an illuminating episode., It was
suggested on one occasion by high-ranking Russians
that the Austrian government should acquire
dictatorial power. The reply was that Austria wanted to be
governed according to democratic principles: The
Russians answered that even a democratic state
must apply dictatorial Principles in order to achieve
lasting results.

The Russians aimed quite openly at the
confiscation of as many of the Austrian possessions and
resources as possible. In so doing, they referred to
the decision of the Potsdam Conference in 1945,
according to which all Austrian possessions which
had been in the hands of the Germans were to be
surrendered to the occupation authorities as war
indemnity. But, should one count as former Ger-

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