Attorney’s account of tonsilectomy
According to the parents, the early childhood years of the accused were not completely without incident.
When she was only 12 years old and received a small dose of anesthetic for an operation to remove her tonsils, she developed such severe convulsions that the head nurse expressed extreme concern to the parents at the time.
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Source: April 7, 1943 petition from Karl Götz to People’s Court