The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-06
French Resistance Physicians Give Nazi Medicos a Headache
Self-induced Ills Fooled Germon
 Medical Service
By ROSETTE HARGROVE NEA Staff COrrespOndent

NEA SLAH NOETcSpOHuCht
 Paris, Feb. 6-Another of the now it can be told" stories of the German occupation of France re- veals how doctors and surgeons of the medical council of the Resist ance movement outwitted the NaZis. The medical services of the Todt or- ganization, in charge of the physi- cal examination of Frenchmen rounded up for deportation to the Reich, were thWarted from the out set by shrewd devices employed by the French.
 Mass deportation of French slave labor by the hated Boches was des- tined, as everyone fully realized, to help the enemy forge more weapons of war against the Allies. Every man who thought it likely he would be caught in the net was determined to escape by every means in his power.
 This is where the doctors got busy. Incidentally, it has since been proved that there were very few, if any, doctors in France who collaborated with the enemy While every member of the med- ical register cannot be said to have played an active part in the Resistance, the great majority were always ready to help any Frenchman defy the Nazi.
 It was common knowledge that tuberculosis in al its forms in- spired a hallowed fear in the minds of the German authorities. Any man showing the slightest tract of the dreaded baccilli was automatically barred from the lists of the s. T. O. (Service of Forced Labor). This immediately resulted in an astonishing increase in Frenchmen of multiform lesionS and Hung spots" of every kind. They did not all die but countless hundreds were stricken.
 "UNDESIRABLES"
 The Boches, however, only judged on evidence. Every suspect was passed through the Horoscope and the latter impartially revealed at the top of the patients lungs a ser ies of small black spots which im- mediately classe dthem in the cate gory of "undesirables."
 A first-year medical man would never have fallen for this If he had had modicum of critical sense and was wise to the general situation. But the one-track mind- ed Swastika medicos, with all the seriousness of udges, seldom saw through the dodge. For months on end they classified as germ-car- riers men who were perfectly healthy and whose spots on the lungs were the very simple result of an injection of lipiodol given to them by a Resistance doctor ust prior to the medical examination
 Came a time when conclave of solemn Herr Doktors became a lit tie surprised at the number of germ carrying Frenchmen appearing be- fore them. They knew the race was decadent, but not that decadent. It was therefore decided to make ad- AAVANAAHA OSoVDp Cck(NSAuA1y UllC test. The results were even more astonishing. More than 20OO French men, all residents of the same Paris district, were found to be car- riers of enough Koch baccilli to contaminate the entire Ruhr basin. NAZIS HORRIFIED
 A doctor at Labriboisere-one of the largest Paris hospitals now talk en over by our medical services tells the story of 6-foot welder who came up for his medical one day. Although he looked the picture of health his body was shaken by spasms of violent coughing. He was examined by the German doctor who,-on looking ta the results of the tests, recolied in horror. He called in his colleagues on duty at the time to look through the micro scope. They were equally mortified. The slide showed something like 400, ,000 Koch baccilli. The patient was sent back home on the spot, laughing up his sleeve of course.
 This episode convinced French doctors that Berlin had by no means sent the fine flower of her medical faculty with the army of occupation. Most of the men on