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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.
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.
Aribert Heim (1914–1992), Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011), American physician who assisted terminally ill people to commit suicide during the 1990s
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 .
An 88-year-old former boxer has been found not guilty in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder in Japan, ending his ordeal as the longest-serving death row inmate ever.
Melissa Lucio was two days away from being put to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter when an appeals court intervened in 2022. Now, a judge says Lucio never committed the ...
A man believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court at age 88. On Thursday, Sept. 26, the Shizuoka District Court announced the verdict of Iwao ...
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