Jürgen Thorwald

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Jürgen Thorwald


Born
in Solingen, Germany
October 28, 1915

Died
April 04, 2006


Jürgen Thorwald was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his works describing the history of forensic medicine and of World War II.

Thorwald was a native of Solingen, Rhenish Prussia, and attended the University of Cologne. He started his career in 1933 in Nazi Germany, writing for publications such as Die Braune Post ("The Brown Mail"), the SS journal Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps") and the NSDAP paper National-Zeitung. During the war he worked as a propaganda writer focusing on the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine and the general German war effort.

After the war, he used the pseudonym Jürgen Thorwald in order to be able to work under Allied occupation. In 1947, he legally adopted the new name.

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“Nazywała się Eufame MacAlyane. Była Szkotką, mieszkała w Edynburgu i miała dwadzieścia sześć lat. Kiedy w 1591 roku wydała na świat drugie dziecko, popełniła grzech śmiertelny, za który została pogrzebana żywcem.
Jej przewinienie polegało na tym, że poprosiła akuszerkę Agnes Sampson o przygotowanie napoju z kaczych jaj i mleka, aby złagodzić nim bóle porodowe. Tym samym wykroczyła przeciwko Słowu Bożemu, skierowanemu do Ewy w biblijnej historii stworzenia świata. Król Szkocji Jakub wydał wyrok śmierci. Biegli w Biblii Szkoci wykopali grób. Kiedy ziemia zakryła już usta Eufame, a ona wciąż jeszcze błagała o litość, wdeptali jej głowę pod ziemię, i kobieta się udusiła.”
Jürgen Thorwald, Ginekolodzy

“Dwustu lat (1616-1835) potrzebowali katoliccy teolodzy, aby uznać udowodnioną tezę Kopernika o tym, że Ziemia krąży wokół Słońca. Za to nieudowodnionemu twierdzeniu o bezpłodnych dniach kobiety przyklasnęli pośpiesznie, pięćdziesiąt lat wcześniej, zanim okazało się, że dni bezpłodne wprawdzie istnieją, ale znacząco różnią się od tych wskazanych przez Poucheta i Lecomte'a, i że fatalną pomyłką było biologiczne porównanie kobiety z suczką.”
Jürgen Thorwald, Ginekolodzy

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