August 23, 1918 - Karl Babor

A physician who turned medical knowledge into a method of killing, Babor carried out phenol injections at Gross-Rosen concentration camp — a technique used across the SS system to murder prisoners without the overhead of conventional execution. His postwar years trace a familiar arc of evasion: a brief capture, a resumed career, and years of freedom before former survivors identified him. Simon Wiesenthal's intervention brought international attention, but Babor died before he could face trial, his body recovered from an Ethiopian river in 1964.

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Karl Babor (23 August 1918 – 18 January 1964) was an Austrian Nazi, SS doctor of the Third Reich, and officer at Camp Gross-Rosen with the rank of Hauptsturmführer. He was an expert in assassination by syringe of phenol.

Biography

In 1945, Babor was arrested and taken prisoner by the French, and spent several months in a camp before being returned to Vienna, Austria. He finished his studies without being arrested until 1952, when he was identified by former deportees at Gross-Rosen. He fled from Vienna and Austria, and was later found in Ethiopia. In the meantime, his wife returned to Germany and denounced him. She contacted Simon Wiesenthal, who alerted the world press (in 1963).

Babor died without being found: his body was recovered in January 1964 from a river infested with crocodiles. Police found that he had a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head.

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