Robert Hegglin (5 May 1907 – 22 November 1969) was a

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medical doctor, responsible for the characterization of

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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

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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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* 1907 births 1969 deaths 20th-century Swiss physicians {{Switzerland-med-bio-stub