13 Medical Staff (Holocaust: Auschwitz)
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This article is from the Holocaust FAQ, by Ken McVay kmcvay@nizkor.org with numerous contributions by others.
13 Medical Staff (Holocaust: Auschwitz)
Testimony from German court records relating to the trials of SS men
charged with medical killing at Auschwitz is now available from our
archives. The source for this data, Nauman, is listed in Section 6.1,
Recommended Reading.
(http://ftp.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?camps/auschwitz/auschwitz.010)
Clauberg, Karl. Pursued his experiments on live specimens in
Auschwitz. Involved in sterilization projects there. (Laska, 222)
Dr. Wladyslav Dering. Dering was a Polish prisoner
Dr. Entress
Gebhardt, Karl. Involved in vivisection projects at both Ravensbruck
and Auschwitz. Shot as war criminal in 1948. (Laska, 225)
Hantl
Klehr
Kremer, Johannes Paul. Vivisection. Sentenced to death in a Crakov
trial, but later recieved amnesty.
Mengele, Josef (1911- ?). Mengele was appointed chief doctor at
Birkenau by the Camp Garrison Doctor in 1943. He joined Drs. Klein,
Koenig, and Thilon in running the selection process. Bibliography:
Gerald L. Posner and John Ware, "Mengele: The Complete Story", New York,
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1986.(Snyder) Mengele is believed dead,
but his fate remains unknown. (See the 1991 "Children of the Flames,"
for citations regarding Mengele's experimentation on twins)
Muench, Hans. SS Untersturmfuehrer.
The doctor and former SS-Untersturmfuehrer Hans Muench was among
the 40 members of the Auschwitz camp personnel indicted and tried
in Krakow in Poland 1946-1947. The trial led to some 20 death
sentences, but Muench was acquitted.
He had taken part in gassings but had refused to assist in the
so-called selections. Some ex-prisoners also testified in his
favour. After his release, Muench returned to Germany where he
continued his medical practice. In 1964 he testified at the
Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt am Main. He agreed to an interview
with Swedish television in 1981, against the wish of his family.
It has been broadcasted twice on Swedish TV, in 1982 and 1992.
A translation of this television interview may be found at
ftp.nizkor.org, in the directory pub/people/m/muench.hans, as
swedish-television-interview (our thanks to a Swedish user for
providing this text). Snippets from court testimony are
also available in the same directory.
Oberhauser, Herta.
Scherpe
Schumann, Horst.
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