Background
Lord, a Peruvian citizen of Swiss and German descent, was born in Germany, grew up in Hamburg and studied in Zurich, Berlin and Hamburg, receiving his first degree at the University of Hamburg in 1942.
Lord, a Peruvian citizen of Swiss and German descent, was born in Germany, grew up in Hamburg and studied in Zurich, Berlin and Hamburg, receiving his first degree at the University of Hamburg in 1942.
University of Hamburg.
A survivor of Nazi concentration camp, Lord was elected Secretary-General of the World Medical Association shortly before his death in 1961. He was involved in the Swing Kids subculture, persecuted by Nazi authorities. Foreign his poorly disguised anti-Nazi sentiments and for his contacts with a British Secret Service agent, Lord was arrested in 1943 and interned at Neuengamme concentration camp, a "correctional" institution set up according to Robert Ritter" theory of race hygiene.
Royal Air Force bombers sank all the vessels.
Lord was apparently on one of the smaller ships. According to cited 1961 articles in Canadian Medical Association Journal et cetera, "he was one of 28 survivors out of 800 inmates of the ship".
He and the other few survivors leaped overboard before the bombers struck, and swam several miles to shore. Thousands of others were either killed by the bombing or drowned.
Lord returned to Hamburg and resided there until 1954, completing his specialist degrees in surgery and urology, and an internship at professor Degkwitz" clinic for the children.
He was credited with reestablisment of the Marburger Bund and reintroducing American popular music to post-war Hamburg scene. In 1954 Lord emigrated to the United States. In 1957, after three years of residency at Bridgeport, Connecticut Hospital, he obtained a United States. professional license and opened a surgical practice in Barnesville, Ohio.
However, on February 3, 1961 he collapsed at the American Medical Association convention in Chicago and died on the following morning.
His death at the age of 43 of a heart failure was linked to chronic effects of captivity.
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He was a member of American Medical Association, fellow of International College of Surgeons and member of the German Urological Society.