Le mercredi 10 mai 2000 à 09:00:00 UTC+2, Alexi Dubois a écrit :

Bob Marley & the Nazi Doctor
From: The Covert War Against Rock,
by Alex Constantine,
Published by Feral House, 2000
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[...]
Marley consulted physicians [about his cancer] in Miami, briefly
returned to Sloan-Kettering, then Jamaica, where he met with Dr. Carl
"Pee Wee" Fraser, recommended to him by fellow Rastafarians. Dr. Fraser advised that Marley talk to Dr. Josef Issels, a "holistic comprehensive immunotherapist" then practicing at the Ringberg Clinic in
Rottach-Egern, a small Bavarian village located at the southern end of Tegernsee Lake. Marley traveled to Bavaria and checked into the clinic.
Dr. Issels met him, looked him over and allowed, without naming
sources, łI hear that youąre one of the most dangerous black men in the world.˛1
The portrait offered by publicity releases from the Issels
Foundation is imposing enough: Dr. Issels, born in 907, founded the
first hospital (financed by the estate of Karl Gischler, a Dutch
shipping magnate2) in Europe for comprehensive immunotherapy of cancer
in 1951. "He was the Medical Director and Director of Research."
All well and good, perhaps ... until it is considered that by this
time Dr. Issels was 44 years old. There is a gap in his bona-fidés. His medical career did not begin in 1951. During WW II, Dr. Issels could be found plying his "research" skills in Poland, at the Auschwitz
concentration camp, working with Dr. Joseph Mengele, no less, according
to several of the Wailers who have investigated the German łalternative˛ practitionerąs past. Bob Marley, the racial enemy of right-wing
extremists everywhere, placed his life in the hands of a Nazi doctor, Mengeleąs protegé, an accomplice of the "Angel of Death" in horrific medical atrocities committed against racial "subhuman" minorities.
Lew-Lee recalls that Marley rejected conventional cancer
treatments, "wanted to do anything but turn to Western medicine. This
may have been a mistake, maybe not. Dr. Issels said that he could cure
Bob. And they cut Bobąs dreadlocks off. And he was getting all of this crazy, crazy medical treatment in Bavaria. I know this because Ray Von Evans, who played in Marleyąs group, we were very close friends. Bob was receiving these medical treatments, and Ray would come by every two or
three months ‹ 1979-80 ‹ and told me: łYeah, mon,theyąre killing Bob. They are KILLING Bob.˛ I said, łWhat do you mean Śthey are killing Bob?ą˛ łNo, no, mon,˛ he said. łDis Dr. Issels, heąs a Nazi!˛ We found
out later that Dr. Issels was a Nazi doctor. And he had worked with Dr. Mengele."3
Dr. Issels would then be one of scores of Nazi practitioners to
escape the attention of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Michael Kater, a
professor of history at York University in Canada, found that physicians
of the Hitler period were steeped in Nazi racial doctrines at medical school, and that many of them continued to practice undisturbed by war
crime tribunals: "it was in a conventional medical culture infiltrated
from one side by a science alienated from humanity and from another by charlantry that young physicians in the Third Reich were raised to learn
and prepare for practice, with many predestined to practice after 1945."4
Dr. Issels first offered his alternative cancer therapies in this
atmosphere of ruthlessness and quackery. In the 1930s, chronic cancer patients consulted Dr. Issels and received his experimental "combination therapy," a regimen of diet, homeopathic remedies, vitamins, exercise
and detoxification, among other holistic approaches to healing. (Today
his clinic offers training in cancer immunization vaccines, UV blood irradiation, oxygen and ozone therapy, łbiological dentistry˛ (pulling teeth), immune elicitation by mixed bacterial vaccine, blood heating, etc.32)
The medical establishment, particularly in the UK, has long objected to
some of his therapies. Gordon Thomas, a former BBC producer, discovered
that Issels was arrested in September, 1960. The warrant stated, łthe accused claims to treat ... cancer.... In fact [he] has neither reliable diagnostic methods nor a method to treat cancer successfully. It is contended [that] he is aware of the complete ineffectiveness of the so-called ... tumor treatment.˛ The arrest warrant noted that Issels was
a flight risk, that łhe had prepared for all contingencies by depositing huge amounts in foreign banks.˛5
Marley was placed on a regimen of exercise, vaccines (some
illegal), ozone injections, vitamin and trace minerals, and other alternative treatments. In this period, Dr. Issels also introduced
torture. Long needles were plunged through Marleyąs stomach through to
the spine. The patient-victim was told that this was part of the łtreatment.˛ The torture continued until Marley foundered on the brink
of death.
Cedella Booker, his mother, visited him three times in the course
of the łtreatments.˛ She found Dr. Issels to be an łarrogant wretch˛ with the łgruff manners of a bully˛ who subjected her dying son to his bloodless brand of łhocus-pocus˛ medicine. Mrs. Booker: łI myself witnessed Isselsą rough treatment of Nesta [Marley]. One time I went
with Nesta to the clinic, and we settled down in a treatment room.
Issels came in and announced to Nesta, ŚIąm going to give you a needle.ą˛ Standing over Marley on the examination table, Issels łplunged the needle straight into Nestaąs navel right down to the syringe.
[Marley] grunted and winced. He could only lie there helplessly,
writhing on the table, trying his best to hide his pain. ŚJesus Christ,ą
I heard myself mumbling.˛ Issels yanked out the needle and strolled casually out of the room. Marley was left groaning with pain. łI went
and stood at his side and held his hand.˛6
łWith every visit,˛ she recalls, łI found him smaller, frailer,
thinner. As the months of dying dragged past, the suffering was etched
all over his face. He would fall into fits of shaking, when he would
lose all control and shiver from head to toe like a coconut leaf in a breeze. His eyes would turn in his head, rolling in their sockets until
even the white jelly was quivering.˛7
Marleyąs torment was aggravated by starvation. łFor a whole week sometimes,˛ Booker laments, Marley łwould be allowed no nourishment
other than what he got intrtavenously. Constantly hungry, even starving
he wasted away to a skeleton. To watch my first-born shrivel up to skin
and bone ripped at my motherąs heart.˛ Marley weighed 82 pounds on the
day of his death.8 The starvation diet must have devastated his immune system and rushed his demise. It also caused him intense pain. łIt would drag on so, for one long painful month after the other, and every day
would be a knife that death stabbed and twisted anew in an already open, bleeding wound.˛ The agony łwrapped him up like a crushing snake.˛38 Starvation left Marley with a knotted intestine, and Dr. Issels was
forced to operate the clear the obstruction.
The cancer finally claimed Marley on May 11, 1980. In Jamaica, the
20th was declared a national day of mourning, and Marleyąs wake at the National Arena was attended by some 30,000 people.
[...]

1) Cedella Booker and Anthony Winkler, Bob Marley: An Intimate
Portrait by his Mother, New York: Viking, 1996, p. 191.
2) "Josef M. Issels, MD," Issels Foundation release, Future
Medicine Publishing, Inc., November 7, 1997.
3) Lew-Lee interview, October 30, 1997.
4) Michael H. Kater, "Doctors Under Hitler,˛ Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1989, p. 235.
5) Gary Null and Leonard Steinman, "Suppression of Alternative
Cancer Therapies: Dr. Joseph Issels," Penthouse, August, 1980, p. 186.
The article canonizes the late Dr. Issels with lavish praise founded
largely on the hostility of the medical establishment toward him. The authors glance inexplicably over the German doctorąs activities during
the war years. Gary Null continues to consider Issels to be alternative medicineąs answer to lee Salk. Null has endorsed the clinic in a
November, 1999 fundraising appearance on KCET, the PBS affiliate in Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
6) Ibid, p. 179.
7) Ibid., pp. 189-91.

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