Language:
French
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah
Angaben zur Quelle:
165 (1999) 163-184
Keywords:
Münch, Hans Wilhelm,
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
Traces the figure of Hans Muench, who was an SS physician in Auschwitz and the only one acquitted in the Krakow trial in 1947. He refused to participate in selections, and saved the lives of ten women on whom he had performed medical experiments. For these reasons, a legend arose that he was the only "human" doctor in Auschwitz. A recent interview (in "Der Spiegel, " 1998), and other research, shows that he was and has remained a Nazi ideologue up to the present. His refusal to participate in selections was only a technical problem, and not a moral one. His Nazi credo has not changed, and in a very cynical and perverted way he now banalizes and relativizes Auschwitz. He saved some Jewish women because he needed them for medical experiments, and he was pleased that he could perform experiments that were impossible in other times.
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