August Hirt: Deadly Collector of the Victims of the Holocaust

August Hirt, like many Nazi doctors, is most closely associated with his role in the medical experimentation on and gassings of groups of Jewish prisoners. What makes him unique was motive: instead of seeing the gassing of prisoners as a quick and effective method of extermination, Hirt wanted to significantly expand the skull and skeleton collection for his institute at the University of Strasbourg.  He wanted to create a museum of "sub-humans, in which proofs of the degeneracy and the animality of the Jews would be collected." 

In an essay at The Holocaust History Project, Anne S. Reamey explains the history of August Hirt.  The article can be found at the following link:

http://www.holocaust-history.org/hirt/

Gisella Perl: Angel and Abortionist in the Auschwitz Death Camp

November 17, 2009. Added the essay Gisella Perl: Angel and Abortionist in the Auschwitz Death Camp by Anne S. Reamey.

January 2009

January 25, 2009. Added the essay August Hirt: Deadly Collector of the Victims of the Holocaust, by Anne S. Reamey

January 17, 2009. Verdicts in several key trials in Germany in the 1950s and 1960s that contain numerous references to the Final Solution. The documents are in German and are:

• The verdict in the "Auschwitz Trial" in Frankfurt am Main of August 19-20, 1965.
• The verdict in the Belzec Trial in Munich of January 21, 1965
• The verdict in the Sobibor Trial in Berlin of May 8, 1950
• The verdict in the Sobibor Trial in Frankfurt am Main of August 25, 1950
• The verdict in the Treblinka Trial in Düsseldorf of September 3, 1965
• The verdict in the Einsatzgruppen Trial in Ulm of August 29, 1958
• The verdict in the Einsatzgruppen Trial in Munich of July 21, 1961

January 10, 2009. Updated the Klarsfeld section on the Main Page