Dr. med. Fritz Hintermayer ("† 29. May 1946 in Landsberg at the Lech) was a German physician and last camp physician in the KZ Dachau in the rank of a

Crime against the humanity

Dr. Hintermayer accomplished medical attempts and killings at male and female prisoners in the KZ Dachau. Among other things Hintermayer seawater attempts at select prisoners led, in order to test chances of survival and working methods for pilots of Luftwaffe jumped off over the sea. Further Hintermayer at its arrested test subjects tested a biochemical cure against Phlegmone. From this festering inflammation of the skin caused by deficiency symptoms many KZ-prisoners suffered, so that numerous patients for a welfare treatment would have confessed to the physician for order. It selected however only such prisoners for its experiments, which were not yet gotten sick. It fell back particularly to arrested Polish priest. It infected and tested twenty of this clergymen with Phlegmone afterwards at them the medicine. The Dr. Sales Hess arrested up to release in the KZ Dachau, reports: I had recently opportunity to see the original photographs of this attempt. Festering wounds, as largely as my palms, at feet, legs and arms! From twenty clergymen died twelve with this attempt. Only eight got off after large pain the life. Unite from them had arms and legs to be amputiert.

Condemnation and execution by the US crew authority

Dr. Fritz Hintermayer was accused after the release of the KZs in the Dachauer processes and condemned to death. The death penalty became to 29. May 1946 in the war criminal prison at that time Landsberg executes.

Sources

• Testimonies of ehem. roof outer prisoners in: Hansen, Horace R. Witness ton of Barbarism. Grey Eagle, MN. Thousand Pinetree press, 2002, 353 Pages, ISBN 0-9720849-0-8, there: P. 214-15, 240, 271, 115
• Sales Hess: Dachau - a world without God/Nuremberg: Sebaldus publishing house, 1946. - 259 S.
• Research and Dokumentationszentrum of the Philipps university Marburg

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