1. Rene Juchli was a medical doctor and American soldier who was the Medical Chief for the Nuremberg war crime trials held in Germany after World War II.
21 Facts About Rene Juchli
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Rene Juchli was born in Zurich, Switzerland on September 25,1889, the oldest of five children to Reinhard Rene Juchli and Anna Elizebth Stilli.
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Rene Juchli served as a lay preacher for a year then he went to Frankfurt, Germany where he attended the Methodist Theological Seminary, graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity degree.
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Rene Juchli served in Germany for a year as assistant pastor of nine country congregations of the Methodist Church.
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Rene Juchli enlisted in the Army in 1917 and served at the Army Medical School in Washington, DC and in North Carolina, where he was promoted to sergeant.
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Rene Juchli returned to Amsterdam, NY where he was employed as a X-ray and clinical specialist for Dr Lew Finch.
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Rene Juchli served as a radiologist in New York City and St John's Newfoundland until 1943, when he was promoted to major and transferred to the office of the Surgeon General, Washington DC, to serve as chief liaison officer of the Provost Marshal General.
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Rene Juchli was responsible for the health of prisoners of war held in the continental US.
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Rene Juchli was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed as chief of medical staffs at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Rene Juchli was responsible for the medical care of Hitler's most famous Nazi leaders who were on trial for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and committing atrocities against their citizens in World War II.
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Rene Juchli was fluent in German and was able to personally examine the famous Nazi prisoners who were on trial; Robert Ley, Hermann Goring, Hitler's Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, grand admiral Karl Donitz, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, field marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Baldur von Schirach, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Julius Streicher, generaloberst Alfred Jodl, and Franz von Papen.
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Rene Juchli found Goring good-humored and he had to constantly remind himself of the atrocities that he had committed in order to keep himself from liking him.
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Rene Juchli committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule the night before he was scheduled to be hanged.
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Rene Juchli refuted this saying "the case is strange as Hess does not remember his flight to Britain but, in his next statement, complains that we are not treating him as well as the British did".
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Rene Juchli committed suicide by hanging himself in Spandau Prison in 1987.
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Rene Juchli returned to his medical practice in Amsterdam, NY.
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Rene Juchli was a member of the Society of Military Surgeons, a charter member of the New York Academy of Medicine, a member and former secretary and president of the Medical Society of the County of Montgonery.
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Rene Juchli was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and an honorary member of Theta Kappa Psi, medical fraternities.
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On May 12,1923, Rene Juchli married 21 year old Eva Shobe in Alva, Oklahoma.
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Rene Juchli was known to his friends and family as Hardy.
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Rene Juchli died on November 2,1965, in Amsterdam, NY and is buried in Fairview Cemetery, Amsterdam, NY.