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Robert Hegglin

Swiss physician (1907-1969) · Switzerland · On the map · Doctors · Died at 62

Robert Hegglin was a Swiss medical doctor, responsible for the characterization of May Hegglin anomaly.

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Robert Hegglin is also noteworthy for his diary entries during World War II that describe the genocide on Jews committed by German Einsatzgruppen and local collaborators in the Baltics: He had taken part in a humanitarian mission of the Swiss Red Cross in Riga, Daugavpils and Pskov in June - September 1942 and learned from "German soldiers, officers and Latvians...that 100,000 Jews have been shot in the Riga area since the German occupation".

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Country
Switzerland
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1907 to 1969 · aged 62