By STEPHEN W. HOUGHTON II
Dr. John K. Lattimer, one of the doctors who supervised the
treatment of the prisoners tried by the International Military Tribunal at
Nuremberg, will be speaking at 7 p.m. today at the
Robert H. Jackson Center. Lattimer will speak on the his observations
about the prisoners and his thoughts about how
Hitler’s deteriorating medical condition caused him to make
decisions that contributed to the German defeat during World
War II. A surgeon and ballistics expert, Lattimer served in the
army during the war treating casualties and eventually
becoming chief of surgery at the 98th U.S. Army General Hospital
in Munich. While there, he consulted on the treatment of the
prisoners and was able to come to know them. In addition to his first-hand
experience with the war criminals, Lattimer is a collector of documents and
artifacts from the Nazi government and that author of Hitler’s Fatal
Sickness and Other Secrets of the Nazi Leaders. After the war, Lattimer served
as president of the American Urological Association and the International
Society of Urology. He is an authority on forensics and has written books
on
the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations. Greg Peterson, president of the Jackson
Center, said ‘‘The center is proud to host Dr. Lattimer and looks
forward to his contributions to our knowledge
of the Nuremberg trials and of Robert Jackson.’’