Report: Nazi Doctor Who Killed Hundreds Found

KSAT ^ | October 15, 2005

[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.

[SJackson]

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[Muzzle_em]

God gives them a nice long life, which is actually a blink in time since they will spend an eternity in Hell.

[wardaddy]

You're mighty soft homeo.

Some folks need killing no matter how old they are.

Geez.

[wardaddy]

However, after 60 years, we look almost as sick and demented hunting down old geezers in their 90's for crimes they may or may not even remember.

[Alter Kaker]

Maybe it's time to forgive and let the rest of the Nazi regime just die away on their own.

Never forgive, never forget.

[Valin]

Maybe it's time to forgive and let the rest of the Nazi regime just die away on their own.

I DON'T THINK SO.

http://www.11tharmoreddivision.com/history/mauthausen/mauthausen_camp.htm
The 11th Armored Division is pleased to post the following article written by 12 year old Kendra Dickinson, granddaughter of veteran Dale Dickinson, A575AAA. She prepared it as a 7th grade history class project. Our congratulations go to Miss Dickinson for her very thorough research, and for producing a work of exceptional (A+) quality.

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Purpose:
I intend to describe the purpose of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp during World War II, the liberation of the camp by the American Army, and Mauthausen as it is today.

I. Mauthausen

A. What type of camp
B. What the prisoners did
C. How the prisoners were treated / killed

II. Liberation of Mauthausen

A. Who
B. When
C. How
D. What was found

III. Mauthausen today

A. What is like

A very dark time in the history of the world occurred during World War II. Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany, had conquered much of Europe. Hitler built concentration camps to contain the people that he used as slave labor to work in mines, factories, farms, and other activities. One concentration camp was the Mauthausen Concentration Camp located twenty kilometers from Linz, Austria. I intend to describe the purpose of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp during World War II, the liberation of the camp by the American Army, and Mauthausen as it is today.

A concentration camp is a place where selected groups of people are confined, usually for political reasons and under inhumane conditions. During World War II, more than four million people died in the German concentration camps ("Concentration Camp," 1). The Mauthausen Concentration Camp was established on August 8, 1938, as a forced labor camp. In a forced labor camp the prisoners were worked to death. The highest number of prisoners in Mauthausen was 19,800 ("Mauthausen (Austria)," 4). Mauthausen, the only concentration camp classified as Stage III, became one of the most dreaded concentration camps. A Stage III camp was the fiercest category and for the prisoners it meant extermination by work ("Mauthausen-Gusen," 2). The prisoners were slave labor for the nearby Weiner Graben stone quarry ("Mauthausen (Austria)," 1).

Mauthausen was selected as the site for a concentration camp because of the granite quarries that were there. "The German SS-owned 'DEST' company was to purchase the quarries and to exploit them economically. The prisoners of the concentration camp were to be used as a cheap labor force in the quarries. In the initial stage of the camp, the prisoners were confronted with utterly inhuman conditions as they had to work in setting up the camp and in the quarries" ("The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938-1945," 1a). "Many people, most of whom were innocent of any crimes, were tortured to death in its rock quarry. The policy of death through work was instituted by the Chief of the SS. Prisoners were to be given only the most primitive tools, and also, whenever possible, they were to work with their bare hands" ("Mauthausen-Gusen," 1). The prisoners that worked in the Wiener Graben stone quarry were divided into two groups; one that hacked the granite into slabs and the other that carried the slabs up the 186 steps to the top of the quarry ("Mauthausen (Austria)," 2).

Prisoners that worked in the camp crematory were relieved and replaced every three weeks. The prisoners that were replaced were then killed by shots through the neck because they knew too much ("Mauthausen (Austria)," 5). My grandfather, Dale Dickinson, recounted that "when a prisoner died or was killed, the other prisoners would take his blanket and clothes to keep themselves warm" (Dickinson).

"Killing in Mauthausen took place in various ways: the SS beat prisoners to death, hanged them, shot them, administered heart injections, poisoned them with gas, or let sick prisoners or those unfit to work simply freeze to death or die of hunger" ("The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938-1945," 1a). "A total of 200,000 people of different nationalities were sent to Mauthausen because of their political activities, their criminal records, their religious beliefs, their homosexuality, their race, or because they were prisoners of war. About half of them were either murdered or died as a consequence of the inhuman conditions of their imprisonment" ("The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938-1945," 2a).

"Prisoners were forced to climb the 186 steps of the Wiener Graben quarry with large blocks of granite on their backs. Often the blocks would fall, crushing limbs and bodies of those following, sometimes killing. The SS guards invented competitions betting on which prisoner would make it to the top first. Those surviving the ordeal would then be forced to jump from the edge of the quarry to their death below. This particular spot at the edge of the quarry was known as 'The Parachute Jump"' ("Mauthausen-Gusen," 1). Prisoners were also taken to the top of the cliff at the quarry and told to fight. They were told that when two prisoners fell to the rocks below, the victors would go free. When two prisoners had been thrown over the cliff, the German soldiers immediately pushed the victors over the cliff to join the losers ("Mauthausen (Austria)," 2).

The death bath was another method for killing prisoners: "The inmates were selected for the 'bath' during the appeal: prisoners unable to work or ill. They were then sent to the 'bath room' and had to stay naked under the showers. Then icy water under high pressure fell from the showers. The temperature of the bodies fell down and caused a long and painful agony. Often, the prisoners died after a half-hour" ("Mauthausen-Gusen," 3). Another method of killing used by the SS was when "prisoners were driven into a fence made of charged high-tension wire. Others were literally torn to pieces by the dog named 'Lord' belonging to the camp commander who sicced it on the prisoners" ("Mauthausen (Austria)," 17a). The German SS guards were trained on the rifle range where prisoners were used as targets ("Mauthausen (Austria)," 18a). A gas chamber was also used at Mauthausen. All dead prisoners were then taken to the camp crematory ovens where the bodies were burned to ashes.

The Mauthausen Concentration Camp was liberated by the First Platoon of Troop D, 41st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized of the 11th Armored Division (Kosiek, 1). On May 5, 1945, the First Platoon was out on patrol when a motorcycle and a white touring car with a red cross on the hood drove up. The Germans in the vehicle said that the Mauthausen Concentration Camp was down the road and the Germans guarding the camp wanted to surrender. When the First Platoon got to the camp, the prisoners started cheering. They were so happy to see Americans. The First Platoon calmed the crowd, and the German guards came and surrendered to the Americans. The American soldiers told the Germans to give up their weapons, but the Germans said that if they did that, then the prisoners might not listen to them. The Germans were more afraid of the prisoners hurting them than they were of the Americans. There was a riot that started in the kitchen, and Sergeant Kosiek cleared up the situation by firing a few rounds from his pistol into the kitchen ceiling. He got the prisoners to go back to their quarters. The 23 men of the First Platoon returned to their base camp with 1,800 German soldiers that had surrendered (Kosiek, 1-3).

In addition to the liberation of Mauthausen, American soldiers had to go and round up the prisoners that had left the camp. A few that could walk left when the German guards surrendered or fled. My grandfather, Dale Dickinson, was a member of the 11th Armored Division during World War II. He was at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp a few days after it was liberated. The Americans had to bring the prisoners back to Mauthausen so the doctors could give them medicine and get them on a healthy diet again (Dickinson).

Some of the things found in the camp were very unpleasant. After the Mauthausen Concentration Camp was liberated: "fifteen thousand bodies were buried in mass graves. Due to diseases and starvation, three thousand prisoners died in the weeks that followed after the liberation" ("Mauthausen (Austria)," 3). Sergeant Kosiek described what he saw in the camp, “In the back courtyard were bodies piled up in one mass. You would not think they were human beings if you did not recognize certain features. They were being chewed up by rats and no one seemed to care. Then we were shown where they gassed the people, and then cremated them in big ovens. We were told they shot Americans because they wanted them to be honored by shooting instead of gassing or other means of death. I never saw so many dead people lying around in all my life. I saw things that I would never have believed if I had not seen them with my own eyes. I never thought that human beings could treat other human beings in this manner. The people that were alive made me wonder what kept them alive" (Kosiek, 3).

In talking with my grandfather, Dale Dickinson, about what he experienced at Mauthausen shortly after the camp was liberated, he stated that the smell when you walked in the camp was horrible. There were a lot of dead bodies lying around that had to be put in a mass grave. He saw an American bulldozer making its fourth pass digging a mass grave the length of the camp soccer field. The prisoners that were still alive looked like walking skeletons. They were all skin and bones (Dickinson).

Today, the Austrian government has preserved some of the original Mauthausen Concentration Camp and has turned it into a Mauthausen Memorial. "On the area, there is the quarry, an important factor for choosing this location, and, at the same time, through its function as an instrument of exploitation and extermination, a symbol for Mauthausen; on the site, there are also numerous original buildings. Several cemeteries, as well as the 'ash dump', last resting place for victims hailing from almost all parts of Europe are situated on the site of the Memorial and form the core of this 'place of commemoration’” ("The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938-1945," 1).

This report describes the purpose of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp during World War II, how the concentration camp was liberated by the American Army, and the Mauthausen Memorial today. It is amazing how any of the prisoners could have lived through the conditions that they were put through. The words of Sergeant Kosiek, who led the First Platoon in the liberation of Mauthausen jumped out at me. He said, "I never thought that human beings could treat other human beings in this manner." We need to learn from history and do our best to keep anything like this from ever happening again.

[RWCon]

I wish that people eould agree that WWII is over. The British
dug up Cromwell's bones and hanged them. Will they be doing
that the the the NAZIS?

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thank you, bump.

[muir_redwoods]

I don't care how old the bastard is, run him to ground and string him up. May his children and their's watch it happen.

I hope it hurts and he is very afraid. May his last minutes be terrifying.

[F.J. Mitchell]

At last we have an ancient living evil specimen to disect and study in our search for the answer to why the good die young.

[F.J. Mitchell]

maybe when the last living Nazi monster has been dealt with, we can at last devote full time to bringing the surviving monsters of communism to justice. Well,maybe not full time, because we have those increasing numbers of muslim monsters still avoiding their just desserts.

[freeforall]

He better not go to Toledo! (sorry) (ohio)

[Calpernia]

>>>>I am now convinced that those admonitions, continually repeated by generations of armchair philosophers, are nothing more than a social conditioning mechanism contrived to convince us to "Move On". I think the objective is to allow those who are made uncomfortable by evil to escape confronting it.

Very well said!

And it isn't just armchair philosophers. Some have been in positions to mold the terrorists of today. Take Karl Popper as a perfect example.

[Alter Kaker]

I wish that people eould agree that WWII is over. The British dug up Cromwell's bones and hanged them. Will they be doing that the the the NAZIS?

Cromwell didn't murder tens of millions of people. The Nazis did. But no, I don't support executing dead Nazis, only living ones.

[RWCon]

Napoleon may have caused the death of as great a proportion
of Europe's population as did Hitler, yet the British chose
to exile him (twice!). I think they were correct in doing so.
The Kaiser was exiled. I remember seeing him in a newsreel
in the thirties chopping wood in Holland. I think that it
was a great mistake to try the leaders of the defeated powers
after WWII. After all the Russians, who killed more people
that the Gemans, got offf scot free.

[BykrBayb]

Are they expecting he would be using his real name?

I read in another article that he had requested a tax refund from the German government, because he's living abroad. I don't think it will take much longer to get him into custody.

[onyx]

Maybe it's time to forgive and let the rest of the Nazi regime just die away on their own.




Congratulations.
You have penned the most disgusting post I have ever read on FR.

[BykrBayb]

I guess I should have provided this link, to back up such an incredible claim.

Hunt is on for Nazi doctor Aribert Heim - Science Daily

In 2001, Heim reportedly asked the German tax authorities to reimburse capital gains tax because he was living abroad.

[Alter Kaker]

Napoleon may have caused the death of as great a proportion of Europe's population as did Hitler, yet the British chose to exile him (twice!).

Hitler was empirically different from all of the other dictators who had come before him since the dawn of time, with the single possible exception of the Central Asian warlord known as Timur the Great (Tamerlaine).

A lot of people died in the Napoleonic Wars, but Napoleon never systematically exterminated whole peoples. After the Napoleonic Wars, a lot of Russians decided that Napoelon was worth admiring, even though he was an enemy and an invader. After the Second World War, not one Russian admired Hitler. And there's a reason for that discrepancy.

I remember seeing him in a newsreel in the thirties chopping wood in Holland.

It was Denmark. And the Kaiser was a bad man, no question. But the Kaiser didn't run Buchenwald. Hitler was so much worse the comparison simply falls apart.

After all the Russians, who killed more people that the Gemans, got offf scot free.

So? And some murderers are never punished. Should we let all murderers go unpunished? I never thought I would live so long that I'd hear men clamoring for clemency for Hitler.

[BykrBayb]

I agree with most of what you said, but not this... in order to try to avoid confronting evil. I think it's in order to avoid admitting that a particular act is evil. If we all learn to accept it, as we've been told to, what's to stop it from happening again?