Sherlock Holmes and the last Nazi doctor.

In this contribution, we present an original modern-day detective story that we have created based upon Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H. Watson, both fictional characters created by the British author and physician, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). In our tale, an elderly woman is slowly going deaf and experiencing vertigo. Her physicians are unable to determine the etiology of her symptoms but suspect that she was exposed to an ototoxic agent while a prisoner at the Ravensbrück concentration camp during World War II. The patient was a forced subject in Nazi medical experiments, but theNazis destroyed the information about thems at the War's end. Holmes and Watson travel to Germany to interview the last living Nazi doctor in a desperate effort to save the lives of the patient, and possibly other family member, by finding out exactly what ototoxic agent was injected into the patient while she was an inmate at Ravensbrück. All the characters in this story are fictitious as are the details of the Nazi medical experiment described herein. In a postscript to this contribution, we address internet speculation concerning whether such an experiment took place at Ravensbrück.