Documents of Auschwitz death camp doctors found

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Documents of Auschwitz death camp doctors found
AP


By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA, Associated Press Writer


WARSAW, Poland – Food coupons for some of the notorious Nazi doctors at the Auschwitz death camp — including perhaps the sadistic Dr. Joseph Mengele — have been found in the attic of a nearby house, where they had lain unseen for decades.

Also found in the attic were other documents relating to the lives of Nazi officials, including death certificates and a map.

Some sugar coupons bear the names of Horst Fischer and Fritz Klein, doctors who were executed for their crimes after the war, Adam Cyra, a historian at the Auschwitz memorial museum who is looking through the documents, said Monday.

"The sensational value of this discovery is in the fact that these original documents, bearing the names of main murderers from Auschwitz, were found so many years after the war," Cyra said.

Cyra said he believes a June 1943 coupon for a small amount of sugar probably was assigned to Dr. Joseph Mengele, who was infamous for his sadistic experiments, but the writing is unclear.

A February 1944 coupon for 0.28 kilograms of butter is made out for a Dr. Mergerle. There was no SS doctor by that name at camp, so Cyra believes a clerk misspelled Mengele's name.

Doctors and pharmacists at the camp conducted pseudo-medical experiments on the inmates and helped select Jews arriving at the camp for either labor or death. Mengele escaped after World War II and evaded capture for the rest of his life.

The documents — almost 300 in total — were found in the attic of a house being renovated in the town of Oswiecim, where the Nazis built the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.

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[Gman2]

1. Republicans found them, to actually kill the bill, and babies.

[Nye Bevan]

4. WTF are you talking about? (nt)

[derby378]

2. Now I want to know who previously lived in that house

Was it a relative of one of the Auschwitz doctors? That would be my first guess.

[Xithras]

3. Probably some sort of clerk.

To have certificates from so many people in one place, the house probably belonged to either the guy who issued the ration coupons or some sort of camp recordkeeper. The Nazi's, like all other organizations, had a huge population of entirely forgettable clerks and bureaucrats.