Aribert Heim
Posted on 10/15/2005 11:29:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
JERUSALEM -- A Nazi war criminal known as "Dr. Death" for sadistic experiments that killed hundreds of prisoners during World War II has been tracked down to Spain, an Israeli newspaper's Web site said Saturday. Spanish police said they had not yet found the man.
The German weekly Der Spiegel said Spanish investigators believe the 91-year-old suspect, Aribert Heim, has been in Spain recently.
Police said they had not found Heim during searches after receiving indications that he was living in the northeastern province of Girona.
"We haven't detained anyone with that name," said Joan Lopez, a police spokesman in Girona. "All we know is that he may have been in the area of Palafrugell recently."
Heim has been a fugitive since he was charged by German authorities in 1962 with killing hundreds of concentration inmates in Germany and Austria with lethal injections. He is thought to have evaded capture in Germany, Argentina, Denmark, Brazil and Spain.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said Heim would be arrested soon by Spanish police.
Its Web site quoted a spokesman for the Nazi watchdog Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stephen Clem, as saying the center had evidence that Heim is still alive and has amassed more than $2 million in a Berlin bank.
A call to the center's Israeli branch requesting comment was not immediately returned.
Der Spiegel said Spanish investigators think a relative of Heim transferred about $363,000 to an acquaintance in Spain over the past five years and are looking into the possibility that at least some of it may have been used to support Heim.
The magazine said Spain was suspected as Heim's possible hiding place as long ago as the mid-1980s and there had been increasing indications in recent weeks that he might have until recently lived somewhere near Denia on the Mediterranean coast.
During the war, Heim earned the nickname of "Dr. Death" for experimenting on inmates at the Buchanwald and Mauthausen camps. The research included performing surgery without anesthesia and injecting prisoners with gasoline, poison and lethal drugs to see how much their bodies could take before dying, Haaretz said.
Although Heim never completed medical training after studying at the University of Vienna, after the war he worked as a doctor in southern Germany until he was indicted. German authorities have offered a $159,000 reward for his arrest and the Wiesenthal Center $12,200.
Ping.
Didn't know that there were any left still alive!
I will have to follow up on this after we get back from the supermarket.
Man, these sadistic killers sure live long. Hang him before he dies of natural causes.
"He vas only following orders"...
Hang him before he dies of natural causes.
I think death by injection would be more humane.
I'll bet that gasoline is really going to sting !
If he has Alzheimers he'll never realise what's going on or why. If they find him, I hope he's mentally fit.
What a misleading headline...he hasn't been "found". Only speculation on his location! "Police said they had not found Heim during searches after receiving indications that he was living in the northeastern province of Girona."
I sure would hate to have his soul!
Aribert Heim
Are they expecting he would be using his real name?
The high level Nazi's pretty much gave their souls over to satan willingly and with enthusiasm....I am sure they are where they wanted to be....
Nazi doctor who killed hundreds found in Spain:
"During the war, Heim earned his nickname of "doctor death" for performing especially sadistic experiments on inmates at the Buchanwald and Mauthausen camps. The research included surgery without anesthesia and injecting prisoners with gasoline, poison and lethal drugs to see how much their bodies could take before dying, Haaretz said."
"Spanish investigators believe a relative of Heim has transferred about US$363,000 (euro300,000) to an acquaintance in Spain over the past five years and are looking into the possibility that at least some of it it may have been used to support Heim, Der Spiegel reported."
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Time to pay the piper before he meets his SS comrades - in Hell.
Liberty Post is deeply saddened, I'm sure. So is the IHR.
Boo hoo.
Hang 'em.
Maybe it's time to forgive and let the rest of the Nazi regime just die away on their own.
Me thinks that someone wants his 2 million!
While the legal system does not support "an eye for an eye" death sentence, I hope the inmates in whichever prison he is placed, are provided with this information. In prison, sentences are often meted out by fellow prisoners. Armed with this info, the prisoners will ensure that Dr. Death lives in daily fear for his life; he will be hunted down by them like an animal.
I look forward to confirmation of his justly deserved painful demise.
If he had been funded for his efforts by US taxpayers, some may have defended his actions as they do Kinsey.
An interesting point.
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