Hans Delmotte

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Hans Delmotte (born December 15, 1917 in Liège ; † 1945 ) was a Belgian SS doctor who was employed in the Auschwitz concentration camp at the branch of the hygiene institute of the Waffen SS .

Life

Delmotte completed a medical degree after finishing his school career . After the outbreak of the Second World War , Delmotte was a member of the Waffen SS from mid-June 1941 . With the Waffen-SS Delmotte reached the rank of SS-Obersturmführer in 1944.

Delmotte completed a course at an SS junker school and was deployed at the medical office of the Waffen SS in Berlin . On September 15, 1944, Joachim Mrugowsky transferred him to the branch of the Hygiene Institute of the Waffen SS in Auschwitz. Like his colleague Hans Münch , Delmotte was deputy to his superior, Bruno Weber .

In Auschwitz concentration camp, Delmotte worked on the one hand at the hygiene institute of the Waffen-SS and on the other hand as a camp doctor. Immediately after his arrival in Auschwitz, Delmotte, accompanied by a doctor colleague, was called in to select concentration camp inmates for gassing at the so-called ramp. Delmotte's colleague Hans Münch met Delmotte after his participation in his first selection:

“He came back completely upset. He was brought in by an SS man because he was practically unable to drive home himself. He slept in the same house in the room next to me. I thought when he came back [...] he wasn't up to the schnapps that was usually available at the selections. He broke; but he was unable to express himself. It wasn't until the next morning that I realized that alcohol hadn't played the main role. [...] He was completely shaken, had put on his dress uniform and marched at attention to the commandant and explained to him that he refused to do such a service, he could not do it; and [...] - he told us about it afterwards - [...] he asked either to be sent to the front or to be gassed himself. "

Delmotte also turned to his superiors and the SS medical officer to be released from this task. He was then assigned to Josef Mengele , who was supposed to convince him of the alleged necessity of this task. In addition, at the intervention of his superior, Delmotte's wife moved to his place of work. By late autumn 1944, Delmotte finally took part in selections. For Delmotte's dissertation he was assigned a Jewish prisoner doctor and professor. For this research, Delmotte took part in typhus experiments on prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Delmotte's dissertation: Contributions to the pathological physiology of gastric secretion in typhus was completed in 1944.

After the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945, Delmotte worked briefly in the Dachau concentration camp . At the end of the war he tried to leave for his homeland, but was arrested by members of the US Army . While being transferred to a prison, Delmotte managed to shoot himself.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims. 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .
  • Ernst Klee: The person lexicon for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8
  • Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz ; Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna: Ullstein, 1980; ISBN 3-548-33014-2 .
  • Wacław Długoborski , Franciszek Piper (eds.): Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Verlag Staatliches Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oswiecim 1999, 5 volumes: I. Construction and structure of the camp. II. The prisoners - conditions of existence, work and death. III. Destruction. IV. Resistance. V. Epilog., ISBN 83-85047-76-X .
  • Mieczysław Kieta: The Hygiene Institute of the Waffen-SS and Police in Auschwitz, in: Hamburg Institute for Social Research (ed.): Die Auschwitz-Hefte , Volume 1, Hamburg, 1994; ISBN 3-8077-0282-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aleksander Lasik: The organizational structure of KL Auschwitz , in: Aleksander Lasik, Franciszek Piper, Piotr Setkiewicz, Irena Strzelecka: Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studies on the history of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. , Volume I: Structure and Structure of the Camp , Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , Oświęcim 1999, p. 320.
  2. ^ Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna 1980, pp. 405f.
  3. ^ A b c Robert Jay Lifton: " The murderers are still among us ", in: Der Spiegel , issue 27 of July 4, 1988.
  4. ↑ Hans Münch on Delmotte Quoted in: Hermann Langbein: People in Auschwitz. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Vienna 1980, p. 405
  5. ↑ Hans Halter: " The murderers are still among us Nazi doctors: From the euthanasia ", in: Der Spiegel , issue 25 of June 20, 1998.
personal data
SURNAME Delmotte, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian medic and SS leader in Auschwitz concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege
DATE OF DEATH 1945