[2] She studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg and trained in psychiatry at various psychiatric facilities in France and Switzerland.
When her request was denied, she chose to cross into the German zone illegally; she was arrested and jailed in Bourges with a number of Jewish prisoners.
[1] At Auschwitz, chief doctor Eduard Wirths asked Hautval to practice gynaecology; she agreed until she discovered that medical experiments were being performed on Jewish women with the intention of sterilizing them through the use of x-rays or surgical removal of the ovaries.
While Dering claimed that doctors who refused to comply with Nazi experiments would have been killed, Hautval testified that she had rejected orders from Auschwitz officials and had still survived.
[1] The British judge presiding over the trial, Justice Frederick Lawton, described Hautval as "perhaps one of the most impressive and courageous women who had ever given evidence in the courts of this country".