Wanted Nazi Doctor Might Be in Spain
An Austrian doctor accused of killing hundreds of inmates in a concentration camp during World War II may be in Spain, the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center said in Jerusalem.
Aribert Heim, 91, earned the nickname “Dr. Death” for experimenting on inmates at the Nazis’ Buchenwald and Mauthausen camps. His research included performing surgery without anesthesia and injecting prisoners with gasoline, poison and lethal drugs to see how much their bodies could take before dying, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said.
The German weekly Der Spiegel also reported that Spanish investigators believe Heim has been in Spain recently.
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