Horst Schumann
Extent and Medium
[46] pages
Creator(s)
- International Auschwitz Committee
Scope and Content
"Horst Schumann (1 May 1906 – 5 May 1983), SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and medical doctor, conducted sterilization and castration experiments at Auschwitz and was particularly interested in the mass sterilization of Jews by means of X-rays. [...]" -- Wikipedia
Note(s)
photographs
Newspaper clippings, newspaper articles, letter from the Comite International d'Auschwitz, report review [by Hermann Langbein, General Secretary of the International Auschwitz Committee], press survey, biographical information, bibliographical information.
Detailed dates of material: 1952, 1961-1966, 1970
People
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Schumann, Horst, 1906-1983
Subjects
- Euthanasia--Government policy--Germany--History
- Human experimentation in medicine
- War criminals--Germany--History--20th century.
- Physicians--Germany--1933-1945--Persecutions.
- National socialism and medicine
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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