"It was 1941, and an 18-year-old Jew had been sent to the clinic with a
foot
inflammation. Heim asked him about himself and why he was he so fit. The
young man said he had been a soccer player and swimmer.
Then, instead of treating the prisoner's foot, Heim anesthetized him, cut
him open, castrated him, took apart one kidney and removed the second,
Lotter said. The victim's head was removed and the flesh boiled off so
that
Heim could keep it on display.
"He needed the head because of its perfect teeth," Lotter, a non-Jewish
political prisoner, recalled in testimony eight years later that was
included in an Austrian warrant for Heim's arrest uncovered by The
Associated Press. "Of all the camp doctors in Mauthausen, Dr. Heim was the
most horrible."
But Heim managed to avoid prosecution, his American-held file in Germany
mysteriously omitting his time at Mauthausen, and today he is the
most-wanted suspected Nazi war criminal on a list of hundreds who the
Simon
Wiesenthal Center estimates are still free.
Heim's file in the Berlin Document Center, the then-U.S.-run depot for
Nazi-era papers, was apparently altered to obliterate any mention of
Mauthausen, according to his 1979 German indictment, obtained by the AP.
Instead, for the period he was known to be at the concentration camp, he
was
listed as having a different SS assignment.
This "cannot be correct," the indictment says. "It is possible that
through
data manipulation the short assignment at the same time to the
(concentration camp) was concealed."
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Concentration camp doctor heads list of top 10 wanted Nazis
By DAVID RISING, Associated Press Writer
BADEN-BADEN, Germany - Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital
at
Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time
he
watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man.
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Dr. Heim wasn't even at the camp, according to the files:
"Heim's file in the Berlin Document Center, the then-U.S.-run depot for
Nazi-era papers, was apparently altered to obliterate any mention of
Mauthausen, according to his 1979 German indictment, obtained by the AP.
Instead, for the period he was known to be at the concentration camp, he
was
listed as having a different SS assignment.
Austrian authorities sent the 1950 arrest warrant to American
authorities
in Germany who initially agreed to turn him over, then told the Austrians,
in a Dec. 21, 1950 letter obtained by the AP, that they couldn't trace
him.
What happened next is unclear, but in 1958 Heim apparently felt
comfortable
enough to buy a 42-unit apartment block in Berlin, listing it in his own
name with a home address in Mannheim, according to purchase documents
obtained by the AP. He then moved to the nearby resort town of Baden-Baden
and opened a gynecological clinic - also under his own name, Heister said.
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"He needed the head because of its perfect teeth," .."
A Jewish camp inmate injured his foot, goes the the camp infirmary, where
an evil Dr. saw his perfect teeth, and coveted them, so: "Heim
anesthetized
him, cut him open, castrated him, took apart one kidney and removed the
second, Lotter said." All because "he needed the head"
Not only that, but the American military took a liking to the evil Dr.,
and
helped to cover up his heinous crimes:
"Heim's file in the Berlin Document Center, the then-U.S.-run depot for
Nazi-era papers, was apparently altered to obliterate any altered to
obliterate any mention of Mauthausen,
"apparently altered", because the facts in the file don't fit the
"eyewitness testimony" of that one prisoner, a Communist political
prisoner
with an ax to grind.
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