Heim, Dr. Aribert Ferdinand “Dr. Death”.

Heim, Dr. Aribert Ferdinand, born 28-06-1914 in Radkersburg, Austria-Hungary, was the son of a policeman and a housewife. Aribert studied medicine in Graz, receiving his doctorate in Vienna, joining the NSDAP , NSDAP-nr.: 6 116 098, and the SS SS-nr.: 367 744 on 01-10-1938, after the Anschluss with Austria.

The Anschluss ‘joining’ or ‘connection’), also known as the Anschluß Österreichs  Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the “willingly” Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 12-03-1938.

  The idea of an Anschluss (a united Austria and Germany that would form a “Greater Germany”) began after the unification of Germany excluded Austria and the German Austrians from the Prussian-dominated German Empire in 1871. Following the end of World War I with the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1918, the newly formed Republic of German-Austria attempted to form a union with Germany, but the Treaty of Saint Germain (10-09-1919) and the Treaty of Versailles (28-06-1919) forbade both the union and the continued use of the name “German-Austria” (Deutschösterreich); and stripped Austria of some of its territories, such as the Sudetenland.

Heim volunteered for the Waffen-SS in the spring of 1940, rising to the rank of SS Hauptsturmführer . In October 1941, Heim was sent into the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp

 , where he performed medical experiments on prisoners. He was later sent to an SS field hospital in Vienna. The prisoners at Mauthausen called Heim “Dr. Death“. For about two months, October to December 1941, Heim was stationed at the camp called Ebensee near Linz, Austria, where he carried out experiments on Jews similar to those performed at Auschwitz by SS Hauptsturmführer, Josef Mengele. Mengele had most probably died in a swimming accident in Embu, Brazil , on 07-02-1979. 

Hundred’s of Jewish prisoners were poisoned by him with various injections directly into the heart, including petrol, water, phenol and poison, to induce a quicker death. He is reported to have removed organs from prisoners without anesthesia. According to a former camp inmate, an 18-year-old Jewish man came to the clinic with a foot inflammation. He was asked by Heim why he was so fit. He replied that he had been a football player and swimmer. Instead of treating the prisoner’s foot, Heim placed him under anesthesia, cut him open, took apart one kidney, removed the second and castrated him. The man was decapitated and Heim boiled the flesh off the skull for use as a paperweight and display. From February 1942, Heim served in the 6^th SS Mountain Division Nord  in northern Finland, under SS Obergruppenführer, Karl Maria Demelhuber,    especially in Oulu’s hospitals as an SS doctor. In May 1945, the division unit’s survivors surrendered to the Americans in Austria. Heim’s service continued until at least October 1942. On 15-03-1945 Heim was captured by US soldiers and sent to a camp for prisoners of war. He was released and worked as a gynecologist at Baden-Baden and Bad Nauheim, until his disappearance in 1962 to Egypt; he had telephoned his home and was told the police were waiting for him. Having been questioned on previous occasions, he surmised the reason, an international warrant for his arrest had been in place since that date and went into hiding. According to his son Rüdiger Heim, he drove

  through France and Spain onward to Morocco, moving finally to Egypt via Libya. After Alois Brunner, SS Obersturmführer , top assistant, Adolf Eichmann,   Heim had been the second most wanted Nazi officer. Heim was named as one of the ten most wanted Nazi war criminals by the Simon Wiesenthal    Center.

    He is alleged to have lived for many years in Cairo, Egypt under the alias of Tarek Farid Hussein and reportedly died there of intestine cancer on 10-08-1992, age 78 and is buried on the cemetery for the poor in Cairo, Egypt.

 

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