Gustav Wilhelm Schübbe

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Schübbe as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Gustav Wilhelm Schübbe (born March 31, 1910 in Wanne-Eickel, † after 1947) was a German medic.

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In his youth, Schübbe attended elementary school and the secondary school in Wanne-Eickel, where he passed the final exam in the spring of 1930. He then studied medicine at the universities of Munich, Münster and Freiburg, where he passed the state examination in 1936. In 1937 he received his doctorate from the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University with a thesis on paralysis during pregnancy.

During the Second World War , Schübbe was temporarily entrusted with the management of a medical institute in Kiev , in which, during the German occupation of Ukraine, people who were unpleasant or “unworthy of life” (Jews, “gypsies”, schizophrenics, etc.) were killed, usually by injection of high concentrations of morphine (or morphine combined with tartaric acid [ morphine tartrate ]), which caused respiratory paralysis.

In April 1945, Schübbe became a prisoner of war in the United States . His admission, made during interrogation by Guy Stern , that between 110,000 and 140,000 people had been killed there during the nine months in which he headed the Kiev institute caused a stir in the Allied press . The American Time Magazine , for example, described the case as "a monstrosity that seemed to overshadow all previously known descriptions of National Socialist inhumanity" ("a monstrosity that appeared to top all previous tales of Nazi inhumanity."). According to the Time article, Schübbe admitted that he himself had killed around 21,000 "unworthy of life" people in Kiev.

Schübbe was later heard as a witness during the Nuremberg Trials .

Fonts

  • On paralysis in early pregnancy , 1937. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Abraham J. Peck: The German-Jewish legacy in America, 1938-1988 , 1988.
  • Walter Schmitz: modernization or foreign infiltration? , 1994.
  • World Jewish Congress: The Black Book. The Nazi Crime against the Jewish People , 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Out of the Pit", in: Time Magazine, May 7, 1945 .
personal data
SURNAME Schübbe, Gustav Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH around 1910
DATE OF DEATH after 1947