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Aribert Ferdinand Heim (28 June 1914 – 10 August 1992), [1] also known as Dr. Death and Butcher of Mauthausen, was an Austrian Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor. During World War II, he served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, killing and torturing inmates using various methods, such as the direct injection of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims.
Pokorny's entry into the NSDAP in 1939 failed because of Lilly Pokorná's (his ex-wife) Jewish origins. Gustav Wilhelm Schübbe: March 31, 1910: April 12, 1976: While Schübbe was a witness during the Nuremberg trials, he also self admitted to killing thousands of people. He was never a party member himself, and charges against him were later ...
In autumn 2009, his hunt for Aribert Heim, who committed war crimes in the Mauthausen concentration camp, was the subject of a BBC documentary entitled The Search for Dr Death, and a fifth documentary Tzayad ha-Natzim ha-Acharon (The Last Nazi-Hunter), was broadcast on Israeli Channel 10 on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2012.
Heim is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Albert Heim (1849–1937), Swiss geologist; Aribert Heim (1914–1992), Austrian doctor and formerly one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals
Known as "Dr. Death", Heim killed and tortured inmates at Mauthausen through various cruel methods. He fled Germany in 1962 when he was outed as a war criminal. Heim's whereabouts remained unclear, although in 2009 it was reported that he had been living in Egypt and had died in Cairo in 1992, which was confirmed by a court in Baden-Baden. The ...
Aribert Heim conducted similar medical experiments at Mauthausen. [4] After the war, these crimes were tried at what became known as the Doctors' Trial, and revulsion at the abuses perpetrated led to the development of the Nuremberg Code of medical ethics. The Nazi physicians in the Doctors' Trial argued that military necessity justified their ...
Aribert Heim (1914–1992), physician ("Dr. Death") in the Mauthausen concentration camp; Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), leader of the Nazi Party and Nazi Germany; Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946), high ranking SS officer and Nazi war criminal; Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892–1946), Reich Commissioner of the Netherlands; Otto von Habsburg
Aribert Heim, Austrian physician and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who committed medical atrocities at the Mauthausen concentration camp during The Holocaust and was referred to as "Dr. Death"; in Bad Radkersburg, Austria-Hungary (present-day Austria) (d. 1992) [citation needed]