The pharmacist of Auschwitz: the untold story of Victor Capesius
"This is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. There he dispensed drugs for horrific medical experiments, managed the...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. There he dispensed drugs for horrific medical experiments, managed the poisonous gas that killed millions, and performed life and death selections of arriving transports of Jews. He also stole valuables stripped from the prisoners and gold ripped from the mouths of corpses. Based in part on previously classified documents, [the author] reveals how British and American forces captured and freed Capesius after the war." |
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| 505 | 8 | |a "Pharmacist uncle" -- The Farben connection -- I. G. Auschwitz -- Enter Capesius -- Welcome to Auschwitz -- The dispensary -- "Get to know the devil" -- "Bayer's poison" -- "An unambiguous smell" -- "The hungarian Jews" -- Dental gold -- Impending end -- "Under automatic arrest" -- "What crime have I committed?" -- No one knew anything -- A new beginning -- "Innocence before God" -- "The banality of evil" -- "I had no power to change it" -- "Perpetrators responsible for murder" -- Uninspired bureaucrats -- "No cause for laughter" -- The verdict -- "It was just a bad dream". | |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS INTRODUCTION..........................................................................1 AUTHOR’S PREFACE................................................................... 5 1. “PHARMACIST UNCLE”........................................................9 2. THE FARBEN CONNECTION.......................................... 13 3. I. G. AUSCHWITZ................................................................. 19 4. ENTER CAPESIUS................................................................. 24 5. WELCOME TO AUSCHWITZ............................................35 6. THE DISPENSARY................................................................42 7. “GET TO KNOW THE DEVIL”..........................................52 8. “BAYER’S POISON”..............................................................61 9. “AN UNAMBIGUOUS SMELL”..........................................65 10. THE HUNGARIAN JEWS................................................... 71 11. DENTAL GOLD..................................................................... 80 12. IMPENDING END................................................................ 86 13. “UNDER AUTOMATIC ARREST”......................................90 14. “WHAT CRIME HAVE I COMMITTED?”...................... 100 15. NO ONE KNEW ANYTHING.......................................... Ill 16. A NEW BEGINNING ......................................................... 120 17. “INNOCENCE BEFORE GOD”........................................ 126 18. “THE BANALITY OF EVIL”.............................................. 140 19. “I HAD NO POWER TO CHANGE
IT”.......................... 152 20. “PERPETRATORS RESPONSIBLE FOR MURDER” ....160 21. UNINSPIRED BUREAUCRATS........................................ 165
22. “NO CAUSE FOR LAUGHTER”......................................170 23. THE VERDICT....................................................................183 24. “IT WAS ALL JUST A BAD DREAM”..............................191 EPILOGUE.................................................................................... 197 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS........................................................201 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.................................................. 204 NOTES.......................................................................................... 210 INDEX........................................................................................... 245
INDEX A Adenauer, Chancellor Konrad, 124 Agfa, 11,14,121-22, 211«, 233« Albert, Roland, 24, 28, 30, 46, 52,65, 67, 74, 80, 101, 168,195 Allied Military Government Denazification Division, 95 Ambros, Otto, 19,62,112-114, 118-119,121, 212» Institute for Hygiene, 63 selections of arriving prisoners, 35-37 sub-camps for German industry, 20-21 Trial (1953-65), 165-191 Aussiger Verein, 15 Austin, John, 109 В Selection of I.G. Auschwitz site, 16 Ansco, 14 Baer, Richard, 147-148, 161, 163, 238« Antonescu, Marshall Ion Victor, 26-28 Bardeanu, Dr. Alexandro (formerly Apotheke zur Krone, 23, 91 Auschwitz, 1,4, 7-8,11,19, 31-38, 4-42, Rotbart) 108, 214«, 230« Bauer, Fritz, 124-25, 127-28, 140, 177, 51-54, 85, 116-18, 156, 176-77 180, 183, 191-93, 236« as profit center, 18, 20 arrest and trial of Gestapo/Political Auschwitz I, 32 Department SS officers, 128, 161, Auschwitz II (see Birkenau) 171 Auschwitz III (see Monowitz, also assistance to Israel regarding Adolf Farben/I.G. Auschwitz Division) Eichmann search, 140-42 Canada, storage warehouses 44, 71, State Attorneys office, 124, 125 87 authority to prosecute all Auschwitz corruption endemic to,71-73 crimes, 127 Crematoriums and gas chambers, SS hierarchy that created the 47-48, 74; Capesius description of, “Auschwitz complex” on trial, 141 47-48 Baretzki, Stefan, 144, 161,175, 185, 188 dental gold, 2, 20, 35, 74,82-84,86 BASF, 11,122,211« Disinfection Command/Unit, 48, Bayer. 2, 8-9, 11,14, 25-26, 28-30, 38, 136 51, 53-55,60-61,63,76, 97, 100, 103, origins, 31-32 106, 115, 122,129-130, 132,149, Hungarian Jews to, 7, 73-75 174, 178
“Illness”, 70 Board of Directors, 121
246 ‘IT WAS ALL JUST A BAD DREAM’ Romigefa S. A. (Romanian holding attempt to influence witness company), 25,214и testimony, 129-30,144-47 Bayer, Friedrich, 25 childhood and education, 23-24 Becker-Freyseng, Dr. Hermann, 102 claimed to bribe other doctors for Becker, Hermann Josef, 33,131, 157 ramp duty, 134-35,138, 154 Bednarek, Emil, 161-162, 188 collection of drugs at camp railhead, Belzee (camp), 38 41,44,131, 133 Bergen-Belsen (camp), 85, 88, 92-93, 179 conspiracy view of testimony against him at trial, 176, 178,195 Berner, Dr. Mauritius, 7-9,29, 53,174, 177 denazification hearings of, 104-06, 109, 116-117 Bild-Zeitung, 176 detention by British, 90 Birkenau (Brzezinka/Auschwitz II), 32, 41-42,44,46,74,83, 131,134 drafted into Waffen-SS, 29 escape from Auschwitz, 87-89 Bischoff, Heinrich, 128, 161, 183 inmate nicknames of, 43,178 Bock, Richard, 161 inmate workers of, 41-42 Boger, Wilhelm, 126-128, 130,157,161, Jewish customers (prewar) of, 29, 56, 172,175, 188 149,174 Böhm, Dr. Gisela, 9, 29, 53,65 justifications for Auschwitz service, Böhm, Ella (see Ella Salomon) 194-96 Bosch, Carl, 13-14 lies about Auschwitz service in, Broad, Pery, 128, 144,161, 171,175, 185, 190 98-99, 106 life and death selections of arriving Breder, Libuša, 71 Jewish prisoners, 52-59, 130,134-35, Breitwieser, Arthur, 161, 188 146, 149,155-56,175, 184-87 Bucharest, 23, 26, 29, 54, 174,178 odd behavior during criminal trial, Capesius buys condominium in, 26 Buchenwald (camp), 31, 88, 92 173-174, 176, 180 pharmaceutical Auschwitz Bucovina (province), 69, 146 dispensary of, 40-42 Büteflsch, Heinrich,
18, 112, 115, 118, postwar businesses, 120-21 121,182 promoted to chief pharmacist at C Capesius, Victor (see also Zyklon В), 2-3,5, 8,23-26, 32-33, 37-43, 46-50, 51-59,62-63,67-69, 76-78, 79-84, 86, 91-94, 97-98, 100-01, 103-04, 106, 115, 117,120, 122-23, 126, 128-39, 141, 144-51, 153-55,158-59, 171-82, 187-88,190, 191-96,200 arrest by Americans, 129-30 Auschwitz, 40 release from prison, 192-93 supplying Evipan for medical experiments, 100,136, 139,149,155 theft of dental gold, 82-84, 86, 97, 120, 140,146,171, 176,177,180-81 transfer to Auschwitz, 32-33 views about Jews, 28-29
THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ Capesius, Friederike (Fritzi) (née 247 DuBois, Joshua Jr„ 112-114, 116,119, Bauer), 23-25, 29-30, 54, 66,79,91, 122 94,122,164,193-195 role in setting prosecution case Capesius, Christa, 26,29, 159,193, 194» against Farben defendants, 113 Dürrfeld, Walter, 112, 118-119 Capesius. Ingrid, 26, 29,159,164,194» DÜX, Judge Heinz, 150-156,160, Capesius, Melitta, 26,29,122, 159,173, Dylewski, Klaus, 128,161, 171, 190 193,194» E Central Medical Stations (SS/Warsaw and Berlin), 30, 42, 86,109, 117 Central Office of the State Justice Ministries for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes of Ehrenfeld, Albert, 29,56-57, 174 Eichmann, Adolf, 73-74, 141-143 capture of, 141-142 “deaths traffic cop”, 73 trial of, 148,150-152,157 Violence, 125 Cernavodă (army hospital), 26 Czekalski, Leon, 97-98 Chełmno (camp), 32,38,73 Chemie Grünenthal, 121 Chemische Werke Hüls AG, 121 Eichmann, Nicholas, 142 Eisenhower, Dwight, 112 Eisler, Hanns, 129, 139 Einsatzgruppen, 38 Evipan, 51,100, 136, 139, 149,155 F Citron-Bard, Éva, 42, 80, 86,92 Clauberg, Dr. Carl, 100,141 Fabritius, Fritz, 66-67 Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg in Farben, I.G. (Interessen-Gemeinschaft German), 23,26, 93,227» Comité International de Camps, 190 D Dachau (camp), 30-31, 33-34,63, 89, 98-99,103-104,108, 131, 156 Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung), see Zyklon B. Denazification, 95-98,102-107, 109, 111, 116-117,120, 130, 132 proceedings, 95-96, 98,104, 106, 111, 130 Department for Aviation Medicine (SS), 33 Der Spiegel, 128 Der Stürmer, 12 Dobrzański, Tadeusz, 46, 145 Farben), 2, 8,
11, 13-16,31-32 destruction of company documents, 87-88 directors of Zyklon В manufacturing subsidiary, and 112-113,115-116 directors claimed to know nothing of the Final Solution, 114-116 dismisses all Jewish employees and scientists, 14 dissolution of company, 121-122 Farben-Bayer (see Bayer) funding of concentration camp medical experiments, 38,61 I.G. Auschwitz division, 17-22, 113 high cost of construction, 18; prices paid to SS for forced laborers; 19 number of forced slave laborers, 22
248 ‘IT WAS ALL JUST A BAD DREAM’ human trials, untested Farben medications, 61-62 initial resistance to Hitler, 13-14 postwar indictment of 24 top executives, 112 confession about mass killing sent to Vatican, 39 Glück, Josef, 29, 56-58,152-153,174, 177 Goebbels, Josef, 4 slave labor reliance on, 21-22 Göppingen, 2 synthetic rubber (Buna) and oil, 16,18 Goring, Hermann, 15,112, 148 technical innovation, 11-12 Grese, Irma, 101 verdict in war crimes trial, of 118-119 Groning, Oskar, 72 Großmann, Hans, 164 Faragó, Ladislas, 125 Grosz, Dr. Ferdinand, 42, 76,129 Fejkiel, Władysław, 47 H Ferencz. Benjamin, 21 Final Solution, 22, 32, 87, 91, 142,160, 169,177, 183-184 decision made at Wannsee Conference (Berlin), 38 directors knew nothing of (see Hanti, Emil, 161 Harel, Isser, 142 Hermann, Lothar, 142 Himmler, Heinrich, 15,18-20,22, 30, 32, 38, 72-73, 85, 90,115-116 directive to eliminate all evidence of Farben) first confirmation of, 39 of the Jewish Question, 38, 164 Fischer, Dr. Horst, 65, 80, 144,191 Forester, Hans, 165 Final Solution, 87-88 Hitler, Adolf, 12-14,16, 24, 26, 38 Höcker, Karl, 65, 161-162, 185,189, 190, 240 Hoechst, 11,122 Frank, Hans, 100 Frank, Dr. Willi, 46, 52, 65, 83-84,101, 120,144, 146,161-162, 171,191 possible looting of dental gold with Capesius, 120, 146, 171 Frankfurter Allgemeine, 172 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 183 Frankfiirt District Court, 149,163,166 Fragebogen, 91, 95, 98-99, 103-106 Frymark, Bolesław, 43 Hofmann, Franz, 128,161 Hofmeyer, Judge Hans, 165-166, 173, 175-180, 185-188,197 Hörlein, Heinrich, 13,112, 115 Hoss, Rudolf, 35,
38,49,64-65, 72-74, 82, 100, 143,147, 161 Hoss, Ingebirgitt Hannah, 64 Hotel Zentral, 30 Hotz, Judge Walter, 166 Hoven, Dr. Waldemar, 60 G Hull, Secretary of State Cordell, 81 Gajewski, Fritz, 121 I Generał Aniline, 14 Gerber, Gerhard, 43, 52, 67, 86, 144-147 Gerstein, Kurt, 39 ligner, Max, 121, 140 International Auschwitz Committee (IAC), 126-128 International Military War Crimes Tribunal, 100
249 THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Purity (Frankfurt University), Krauch, Karl, 22, 118,120, 121, awarded Knight’s Cross by Hitler, 112 36 Institute für Cosmetologie (The Cosmetics Institute), 122 J Jackson, Robert, 111 Jähne, Friedrich, 122 Jurasek, Kurt, 43,46,48-49, 154 К Kaduk, Oswald, 128, 161-162,170-172, 176, 188 trial (U.S.A v. Carl Krauch), 111 Krausz, Adrienne, 54, 57, 174 Kriegel, Vera, 37 Kromer, Adolf, 32, 39-40, 42, 131,157 Krupp,32 Kügler, Joaquim, 128, 146, 156-157, 164 arrest of Robert Mülka, 147-148 prosecution of Capesius, 130-132, 134-135-138, 149, 154-155, 174-175 Kulka, Erich, 52, 175 L Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Hereditary Teaching and Genetics (Berlin), 31, 36, 101 Kaul, Friedrich Karl, 167 Kesselring, General Hans, 140 KGB, 143 King Ferdinand I University (Romania), 23 Klageschrift, 106 Klarsfeld, Serge and Beatte, 142 Klehr, Josef, 45, 47-48,101,136,161, 172,188 as chief of camp Disinfection Command, 48 Klement, Ricardo, (see Adolf Eichmann) Klein, Dr. Fritz, 9, 37,41, 53,67, 80, 92, 93, 100,138, 149, 153-154, 157, 178-179,190 Langbein, Hermann, 80, 126-127, 146, 191 Capesius plan to undermine credibility of, 146-47 effort of to revoke Capesius’s pharmacy doctorate, 191 pursuit of Nazi war criminals, 126-29 reaction to Auschwitz Trial verdict, 190 witness at Auschwitz Trial, 170-171 Laternser, Hans, 140,145,152, 171-172, 178,181, 183-184, 188 prediction Capesius would never return to jail, 192 Levi, Primo, 22 Ley, Robert, 14 Liebehenschel, Arthur, 143 Lilje, Archbishop Lars, 125 Lill,
Lotte, 79-80, 157 Kohl, Helmet, 142 Lingens, Dr. Ella, 36,172, 179 Koch, Dr. H„ 108 Lolling, Enno 30, 32,40, 100,145 König, Dr. Hans, 36 macabre obsessions of, 31-32 Kraft, George, 92-93 Lucas, Dr. Franz, 161-162,179-180, Kraków, 31,42 188,191 Ludwigsburg Detention Camp, Kramer, Josef, 100 Kremer, Dr. Johann Paul, 37,70, 140 103-104,109
“IT WAS ALLJUST A BAD DREAM” 250 M Mahlgut, Erich, 104 Mann, Dr. Wilhelm, 62, 112,115 personal approval of payments for Mengele medical experiments, 118 Majdanek (camp), 32,198 Markt-Apotheke (Market Apothecary), Neubert, Gerhard, 161, 183 Neumann, Karl (see Mulka, Robert) Neues Deutschland, 165, 190 Nierzwicki, Hans, 161 Nuremberg Law, 108 Nyiszli, Dr. Miklós, 48-49, 74, 76 Conclusion about Capesius theft of inmate goods, 76 120, 122, 190 Mauthausen (camp), 1, 86, 90 Medical Services and Camp Hygiene recounting of single survivor in gas chambers, 48-49 О (SS Division), 31 Meldebogen, 95-96,104 Oberhäuser, Dr. Herta, 51 Mengele, Irene, 65-66 Oberländer, Theodor, 124 Mengele, Dr. Josef, 4, 8-9, 36-37,40 Operation Osavakim, 102 medical experiments conducted by, Operation Paperclip, 102 37-38 Ormand, Henry, 173, 179,195 murder indictment of, 128 P Mengele, Rolf, 4, 6 Merck, Heinrich Emanuel, 25 Paisikovic, Dov, 47 McCloy, John, 121 Pajor, Dr. Paul, 53,174,178 Mikołajski, Zdzisław, 46 Pander, Rudolf, 116-117 Ministry (German) for Political Pendas, David, 163 Liberation, 106,109 Perseke, Judge Josef, 166 Minskoff, Emanuel, 113 Persilschein, 96-97, 104,106, 108 Monowitz (Buna-Werke), 20-22, 31-32, Pharmaceutical Industry, 25 35, 37, 42-43, 49, 60, 79, 81, 85, 87, German dominance of, 25 112-116, 191 testing of experimental drugs on severe forced labor work conditions, human guinea pigs, 32, 36 Phenol (as used in lethal injections), 21-22 Morgen, Lt. Col. Konrad, 72-73 31,45,130,136,155, 173, 187 Mulka, Robert, (aka Karl Neumann), dispensed by Capesius, 136, 155, 173 147, 161-162,
175, 185-186, 188-190 Polakewitz, Moritz, 163 Mulka, Rolf, 147 Polanska, Zoe, 63 Münch, Dr. Hans, 37 Posner, Gerald, 4-5 N Nationalsozialistische Selbsthilfebewegung, 66 Naumann, Bernd, 42 Nebel, Sarah, 54-55, 174,178 Neuengamme (camp), 34-35, 93 Prokop, Wilhelm, 42,48-50, 83-84, 176-177, 180 identities Capesius for theft of prisoner valuables, 76, 77-78, 84 Puzyna, Dr. Martina, 86
THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ R Raff, Monika, 117-118 251 Schneider, Christian, 112, 115, 121 Schoberth, Johann, 161,188 Shake, Chief Judge Curtis, 118 Rankin, John, 111 Ravensbrück (camp), 51 Red Army (Soviet), 5, 79, 82, 87-88, 94 Red Cross, 8, 35, 42, 46-47, 91,123, 149 Reitelsberg Apotheke, 118 Scholz, Ernest, 65 Schul, Wilhelm, 56 Schulen, Karl Heinz, 29, 106 Schumann, Dr. Horst, 191 Schlesak, Dieter, 194 Reußmarkt, 23, 92 Sertürner, Friedrich, 25 Rheini Steel, 121 Rögner, Adolph, 126-127, 157-158 Röhde, Dr. Werner, 36, 51, 65, 100, 134, 136, 138-139, 144, 149-150, 155 Shake, Curtis, 118 Sibiu (Hermannstadt in German), 23 Siemens, 32 Sighişoara, 23-24, 26, 29 Romania, 2 ethnic Germans in and considered second class, 24, 26, 30 history of anti-Semitism, 27-28 Rommel, Erwin, 74 Roosevelt, President Franklin, 81 Rump, Dr. Armin, 69, 129,146, 157 Sikorski, Jan, 40-41, 43-45, 52, 57, 77, 83-84, 86, 176-177 Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1, 191, 198, 202 Skodawerke-Wetzler (Skoda), 15 murder of Isador Pollack, 15 Sobibor (camp), 32, 38, 73, 197-98 Ruhr-Chemie, 121 Sola River, 48,65 S Sachsenhausen (camp), 30-31, 33 Salomon, Ella (née Böhm), 9, 53, 57, 172, 174 Solahütte (SS recreation camp), 65 Sonderkommando, 35,47, 82, 126 expansion of, 74 uprising and execution of, 80 Sarin Gas, 62 Soviet Army, 5 Schässburg, 9 Spruchkammer, 95, 97 Schacht, Hjalmar, 102 Stangi, Franz, 142 Schatz, Dr. Willi, 46, 52,67-68, 83-84, Stark, Hans, 128, 161, 190 101, 120,144,146, 161-162, 171, 185-186,188-189 Steinacker, Fritz, 140, 145,149-150, 152-157,171,184 possible looting of dental gold with
Steinberg, Karl-Fritz, 47 Capesius, 120,146, 171 Sterilization, 34,63, 100,191 Scheerer, Moritz, 108 Schering, Ernst Christian Friedrich (Schering AG), 25 Stoffel, Hans, 66-69, 86,97, 103, 104, 129,146,192 home used as weekend getaway by Scherpe, Herbert, 161 Capesius, 67 Schkopau, 16 prewar investments with Capesius, Schlage, Bruno, 161, 190 Schlinger, Dr. Lajos, 55,174 Schmitz, Hermann, 121 66 Stoffel, Hildegard, 66-69, 86, 97,103, 104, 129,146, 192
252 IT WAS ALL JUST A BAD DREAM’ visit to Auschwitz, 68 Strauch, Fritz Peter, 42,46, 135, 144-145,155, 158 Wiesel, Elie, 22 Wiesenthal, Simon, 1,142, 148 Willner, Marianne, 93-94 Sulikowski, Maciej, 84 Wirths. Dr. Eduard, 34-36, 39-40, 52, Szabó, Martha, 58, 177 80-81, 100, 104,131, 134-135,138, Szewczyk, Dr. Tadeusz, 42, 46, 77 145,153 identification of Capesius for Wirths, Dr. Helmut, 34 stealing prisoner valuables, 77 Wirtschaftswunder (Economic T Miracle), 123 Wolff, Karl, 18 Tabun (gas), 62 Wolken, Dr. Otto, 74 Taylor,Telford, 111 ter Meer, Fritz, 87,112,114, 118, 121-122 Theresienstadt (camp), 52 Thilo, Heinz, 33 Treblinka (camp), 32, 38, 73, 142, 189, 198 Wörl, Ludwig, 43, 45-46,77, 136-137, 177 identification of Capesius for stealing prisoner valuables, 77 World Jewish Congress, 128 Wurster, Carl, 112,115, 122 z Trukenmüller, Judge A., 130 U Universitatea Politechnica Timisoara (Romania), 123 University of Vienna, 23,191 Institute of Pharmacology, 23 U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC), 98, 99,103, 104-105 V Vetter, Dr. Helmuth, 60, 61,100 Zieger, Erich, 98-99 Zierold, Willard, 98-99 Zyklon В, 2, 38, 45,49,62 as the approved poison for gas chambers, 38 contribution to record company profits, 39, 115-116 Degesch directors of, 112, 115-16, 121 distribution by Capesius of, 46-47 Vogel, Georg Friedrich, 128, 164 eyewitness accounts of Capesius von Bismarck, Otto, 147 oversight of Zyklon В, 46, 48 Von Braun, Werner, 102 failed effort at cost reduction for Von Oven, Wilfred, 4 gassings, 48 von Verschuer, Dr. Otmar Freiherr, last day of use at Auschwitz, 85 low supplies
near end of war, 49 36-37,101 w Walken, Dr. Otto, 170 Walter, Bernhard, 176 Wasitzky, Dr. Richard, 23, 108 Weber, Dr. Bruno, 51,63,166 Wiese, Gerhard, 164 ownership by Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Schädlingsbekämpfimg), 38-39, 115116 patents on, 38
THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ removal of eye irritant at request of SS, 39,115 storage and supervision by Capesius of, 45-46,187,195,217-218« Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München 253
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| contents | "Pharmacist uncle" -- The Farben connection -- I. G. Auschwitz -- Enter Capesius -- Welcome to Auschwitz -- The dispensary -- "Get to know the devil" -- "Bayer's poison" -- "An unambiguous smell" -- "The hungarian Jews" -- Dental gold -- Impending end -- "Under automatic arrest" -- "What crime have I committed?" -- No one knew anything -- A new beginning -- "Innocence before God" -- "The banality of evil" -- "I had no power to change it" -- "Perpetrators responsible for murder" -- Uninspired bureaucrats -- "No cause for laughter" -- The verdict -- "It was just a bad dream". |
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| indexdate | 2024-07-10T08:11:42Z |
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| spelling | Posner, Patricia Verfasser (DE-588)1243692138 aut The pharmacist of Auschwitz the untold story of Victor Capesius Patricia Posner [London] Crux Publishing 2017 253 Seiten, 14 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Portraits, Karte (schwarz-weiß) txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Pharmacist uncle" -- The Farben connection -- I. G. Auschwitz -- Enter Capesius -- Welcome to Auschwitz -- The dispensary -- "Get to know the devil" -- "Bayer's poison" -- "An unambiguous smell" -- "The hungarian Jews" -- Dental gold -- Impending end -- "Under automatic arrest" -- "What crime have I committed?" -- No one knew anything -- A new beginning -- "Innocence before God" -- "The banality of evil" -- "I had no power to change it" -- "Perpetrators responsible for murder" -- Uninspired bureaucrats -- "No cause for laughter" -- The verdict -- "It was just a bad dream". "This is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. There he dispensed drugs for horrific medical experiments, managed the poisonous gas that killed millions, and performed life and death selections of arriving transports of Jews. He also stole valuables stripped from the prisoners and gold ripped from the mouths of corpses. Based in part on previously classified documents, [the author] reveals how British and American forces captured and freed Capesius after the war." Capesius, Victor 1907-1985 (DE-588)119367025 gnd rswk-swf Konzentrationslager Auschwitz (DE-588)4003697-2 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1944-1945 gnd rswk-swf Apotheker (DE-588)4002475-1 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Capesius, Victor 1907-1985 (DE-588)119367025 p DE-604 Konzentrationslager Auschwitz (DE-588)4003697-2 b Apotheker (DE-588)4002475-1 s Geschichte 1944-1945 z Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030601129&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030601129&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Register // Gemischte Register |
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