Hunt Ends for a Nazi Now Believed to Be Dead
Source: NY Times
The hunt for Aribert Ferdinand Heim, a Nazi fugitive and concentration camp doctor, has officially come to a close, the German authorities said Friday, after they determined that the man known as Dr. Death for his unnecessary operations had died in Egypt in 1992.
A regional court in Baden-Baden, Dr. Heims last known residence in Germany, said it had suspended the criminal investigation because no doubts remained that the fugitive who eluded the authorities for decades had died of cancer in Cairo in 1992.
The New York Times and the German television station ZDF reported in 2009 that Dr. Heim had escaped justice by hiding in North Africa. An old, dusty briefcase full of letters, handwritten notes about the case against him and medical records corroborated the accounts of Egyptians who knew him there.
Investigators established that the documents were real and had belonged to Dr. Heim but could not prove conclusively that he was dead. Witnesses said he had died after a long struggle with rectal cancer. At the same time, they said he had been buried in a common grave, meaning that nearly 20 years on, neither DNA nor dental records could be used to confirm his death.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/world/europe/germany-ends-hunt-for-nazi-dr-death.html
May he be reborn as a cockroach forevermore.
Siduri
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)It shouldn't have taken an investigation to figure out he was dead, when simple math would do.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)That's pretty far at the extreme end of expected human longevity.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)By SOUAD MEKHENNET and NICHOLAS KULISH
Published: February 4, 2009
... A dusty briefcase with rusted buckles, sitting nearly forgotten in storage here in Cairo, hid the truth behind Dr. Heims flight to the Middle East. Obtained by The New York Times and the German television station ZDF from members of the Doma family, proprietors of the hotel here where Dr. Heim resided, the files in the briefcase tell the story of his life, and death, in Egypt.
The briefcase contains an archive of yellowed pages, some in envelopes that were still sealed, of Dr. Heims letters and medical test results, his financial records and an underlined, annotated article from a German magazine about his own manhunt and trial in absentia, even drawings of soldiers and trains by the children he left behind in Germany. Some documents are in the name Heim, others Farid, but many of the latter, like an application for Egyptian residency under the name Tarek Hussein Farid, have the same birthday, June 28, 1914, and the same place of birth, Radkersburg, Austria, as Dr. Heim.
Although none of the 10 friends and acquaintances in Cairo who identified a photograph of Dr. Heim knew his real identity, they described signs that he might have been on the run. My idea, which Ive taken from my father at that time, is that he was in dispute with maybe the Jews, but he took refuge in Cairo at that time, said Tarek Abdelmoneim el Rifai, the son of Abdelmoneim el Rifai, 88, Dr. Heims dentist in Cairo and close friend.
A certified copy of a death certificate obtained from Egyptian authorities confirmed witness accounts that the man called Tarek Hussein Farid died in 1992. Tarek Hussein Farid is the name my father took when he converted to Islam, said his son Rüdiger Heim. In an interview in the familys villa in Baden-Baden, Mr. Heim, 53, admitted publicly for the first time that he was with his father in Egypt at the time of his death from rectal cancer ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/world/africa/05nazi.html?pagewanted=all
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Helen Mirren, Oscar winner, Dame of the British Empire, was the star of a film about this. I can't find any internet reference. It's, no doubt, out of an abundance of caution.
I admire her work and hope to see her on the English stage.
As for Dr. Death, it galls me that psychopaths with money and influence escape justice.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)is The Debt.
marble falls
(57,250 posts)long term.
Socal31
(2,484 posts)I would know that there is a special place in hell for the Nazi "doctors", as well as the Japanese Unit 731 devils.
Sadly the Nazis continued to ruin lives after WWII with Thalidomide.
LilSol
(50 posts)He worked after worldwar II in Germany as gynecologist and nobody asked what he did in ww2 time...