Richard Foregger received a B.A. degree from the University of
Virginia and an M.D. degree from Marquette University School of
Medicine. He was an Intern at the famous Charity Hospital of
Louisiana at New Orleans and a resident anesthesiologist at the Queen
Elizabeth Hospital, Montreal, Canada and at the University of
Wisconsin. When he was ordered by the War Department to a general
hospital in Waco, Texas, he instead requested an overseas assignment
and was transferred to the First U.S. Army where he served as a
combat area medical officer during the Normandy invasion and in the
campaigns in northwest Europe, 1944-1945. During 1943 while
waiting for the invasion, he was assigned to the Nuffield Department
of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, England. Following the
Second World War, he was elected to the Royal College of
Anaesthetists, London, England. He was a practicing anesthesiologist
for 46 years as well as an author of more than 75 articles in medical
science, military history and the Holocaust. While carrying on a
medical practice, Foregger was also a student at Marquette University
School of Engineering where he studied advanced mathematics and
at the University of Wisconsin where he studied economics, statistics,
accounting, investment finance and political science. He now does
independent research at the University of Wisconsin, Medical College
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Public and Marquette University libraries.
The author was never employed by or affiliated with the Foregger
Company.