Auschwitz Death Camp Doctors' Documents Found

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Auschwitz Death Camp Doctors' Documents Found

MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | 03/22/10 07:31 PM |

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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/22/auschwitz-death-camp-doct_n_508587.html

[proteus_lives]

1. It seems like the horror of Nazi Germany is never over with.

It's historical and they should keep it but the emotional reaction. I wouldn't want to be even in the same room with them.

[a la izquierda]

2. I can't imagine those fuckers...

as doing normal human things, like eating or going shopping. It sickens me.
And I'm a historian who studies the Aztecs and Mayas, peoples who did rather disturbing things themselves (like flaying a princess alive and wearing her skin to a festival that should have been her wedding ceremony, on one occasion). I guess the motivation and scope separate the Nazis from all others.