Emil Kashub

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Emil Kaschub , according to other information Heinz Kaschub , (born April 3, 1919 in Mensguth ; †  May 4, 1977 ) was a German surgeon who carried out experiments on prisoners to detect simulants on behalf of the Wehrmacht in Auschwitz concentration camp .

Life

Kashub, a member of a student company, was a sergeant doctor in the Wehrmacht . On behalf of the Wehrmacht, Kashub was supposed to conduct experiments on concentration camp inmates to research methods that Wehrmacht members used to simulate illness. A total of three series of experiments were carried out by Kashub in Auschwitz from August 1944, of which up to fifty Jewish concentration camp inmates selected by Kashub were abused for pseudo-medical experiments on people. The death toll from Kashub's attempts is unknown.

On August 22, 1944, site doctor Eduard Wirths Kaschub showed Block 28 of the main camp . The so-called phlegmon experiments took place in room 13 of block 28 from August 24 to September 15, 1944 . A serum containing petroleum was injected into the approximately thirty test victims . After one to two weeks, the purulent phlegmons were opened and the liquid obtained from them was sent to the Wehrmacht medical service in Breslau for evaluation . From August 24 to October 25, 1944, burns were attempted on concentration camp inmates in Kashub. The victims were severely burned on the body. The liquid obtained from the burn blisters and pieces of burned skin were also sent to Breslau for examination. In addition, Kashub researched the pretense of jaundice by administering picric acid to concentration camp inmates. After the end of the human experiments, Kaschub received his doctorate on April 3, 1945 at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Due to the war, Kashub's oral exam was canceled. His dissertation could not be found after the end of the war.

After the war, Kashub moved several times within the Federal Republic of Germany . From 1963, Kashub was the head of surgery at the Bethanien Hospital in Frankfurt am Main . At the same time he worked as a transit doctor for the employers' liability insurance association. As a result of Kashub's death, investigative proceedings initiated against him by the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor were closed.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The personal lexicon for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
  • Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
  • Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna, Ullstein-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 3-548-33014-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 127.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 299f.
  3. ^ A b c Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. , Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 205ff.
personal data
SURNAME Kashub, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kashub, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon who carried out human experiments on Auschwitz prisoners
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Mensguth
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1977