June 28, 1914 - Aribert Heim
Among the SS physicians stationed at concentration camps during the Second World War, Heim stands out for the particular cruelty documented at Mauthausen, where he is alleged to have performed fatal injections and lethal surgeries on prisoners without anesthetic. He evaded postwar justice for decades, living under an assumed identity in Cairo — and perhaps elsewhere — while remaining on wanted lists across multiple countries. The uncertainty surrounding even the most basic facts of his death, disputed by his own family members and unresolved to the satisfaction of Nazi-hunting organizations, reflects how thoroughly some perpetrators succeeded in disappearing.
From Wikipedia
Aribert Ferdinand Heim (28 June 1914 – 10 August 1992), also known as Dr. Death and Butcher of Mauthausen, was an Austrian Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor. During World War II, he served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, killing and torturing inmates using various methods, such as the direct injection of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims and removing the organs of victims without anesthesia. He also was responsible for a high but unknown amount of deaths due to the experimentation.
After the war, Heim lived in Cairo, Egypt, under the alias of Tarek Farid Hussein after his conversion to Islam. In February 2009, after years of attempts to locate him, German television network ZDF had found Heim's passport and other documents in Cairo. It was then reported that Heim had died there on 10 August 1992 from complications of rectal cancer, according to testimony by his son Ruediger and lawyer. This information, though set forth by a German court, was questioned by Efraim Zuroff, a leading Nazi hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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