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Horst Schumann

Index Horst Schumann

Horst Schumann (1 May 1906 – 5 May 1983) was an SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and medical doctor who conducted sterilization and castration experiments at Auschwitz and was particularly interested in the mass sterilization of Jews by means of X-rays. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 44 relations: Action 14f13, Aktion T4, Auschwitz concentration camp, Block 10, Buchenwald concentration camp, Carbon monoxide, Carl Clauberg, Castration, Dachau concentration camp, Eduard Wirths, Egypt, Flossenbürg concentration camp, Frankfurt, German Empire, Ghana, Gladbeck, Grafeneck, Gross-Rosen concentration camp, Halle (Saale), Josef Mengele, Judaism, Khartoum, Kingdom of Prussia, Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Mauthausen concentration camp, Nazi human experimentation, Nazi Party, Neuengamme concentration camp, Robert Jay Lifton, Saxony, Schutzstaffel, Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre, Sterilization (medicine), Sturmabteilung, Sturmbannführer, Sudan, The Holocaust, Typhus, Viktor Brack, West Germany, Wolfgang Benz, Wrocław, X-ray.

  2. Auschwitz concentration camp medical personnel
  3. German Völkisch Freedom Party politicians
  4. German expatriates in Ghana
  5. People extradited from Ghana
  6. People extradited to Germany
  7. Physicians from the Province of Saxony

Action 14f13

Action 14f13, also called Sonderbehandlung (special treatment) 14f13 and Aktion 14f13, was a campaign by Nazi Germany to murder Nazi concentration camp prisoners.

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Aktion T4

Aktion T4 (German) was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Block 10

Block 10 was a barrack at the Auschwitz concentration camp where men and women were used as experimental subjects for Nazi doctors. Horst Schumann and Block 10 are Nazi human subject research.

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Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald (literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937.

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Carbon monoxide

Carbon monoxide (chemical formula CO) is a poisonous, flammable gas that is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and slightly less dense than air.

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Carl Clauberg

Carl Clauberg (28 September 1898 – 9 August 1957) was a German gynecologist who conducted medical experiments on (mostly Jewish) human subjects at Auschwitz concentration camp. Horst Schumann and Carl Clauberg are Auschwitz concentration camp medical personnel, Nazi Party politicians, Nazi human subject research and physicians in the Nazi Party.

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Castration

Castration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses use of the testicles: the male gonad.

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Dachau concentration camp

Dachau was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest running one, opening on 22 March 1933.

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Eduard Wirths

Eduard Wirths (4 September 1909 – 20 September 1945) was the chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Horst Schumann and Eduard Wirths are Auschwitz concentration camp medical personnel, Nazi human subject research, physicians in the Nazi Party and sS-Sturmbannführer.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Flossenbürg concentration camp

Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.

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Gladbeck

Gladbeck is a town in the district of Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Grafeneck

Grafeneck is a small rural village in the German municipality of Gomadingen, south of Stuttgart.

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Gross-Rosen concentration camp

Gross-Rosen was a network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Halle (Saale)

Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (from the 15th to the 17th century: Hall in Sachsen; until the beginning of the 20th century: Halle an der Saale; from 1965 to 1995: Halle/Saale) is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the fifth-most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, as well as the 31st-largest city of Germany, and with around 244,000 inhabitants, it is slightly more populous than the state capital of Magdeburg.

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Josef Mengele

Josef Rudolf Mengele (16 March 19117 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II. Horst Schumann and Josef Mengele are Auschwitz concentration camp medical personnel, German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United States, Nazi human subject research and physicians in the Nazi Party.

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Judaism

Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.

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Khartoum

Khartoum or Khartum (al-Khurṭūm, pronounced al.xur.tˤuːm) is the capital of Sudan.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Kwame Nkrumah

Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary.

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Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public research university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg.

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Mauthausen concentration camp

Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria.

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Nazi human experimentation

Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on prisoners by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945. Horst Schumann and Nazi human experimentation are Nazi human subject research.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Neuengamme concentration camp

Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and more than 85 satellite camps.

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Robert Jay Lifton

Robert Jay Lifton (born May 16, 1926) is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence, and for his theory of thought reform.

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Saxony

Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre

The Sonnenstein Euthanasia Clinic (NS-Tötungsanstalt Sonnenstein; literally "National Socialist Killing Centre Sonnenstein") was a Nazi killing centre located in the former fortress of Sonnenstein Castle near Pirna in eastern Germany, where a hospital had been established in 1811.

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Sterilization (medicine)

Sterilization (also spelled sterilisation) is any of a number of medical methods of permanent birth control that intentionally leaves a person unable to reproduce.

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Sturmabteilung

The Sturmabteilung (SA; literally "Storm Division" or Storm Troopers) was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party.

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Sturmbannführer

Sturmbannführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank equivalent to major that was used in several Nazi organizations, such as the SA, SS, and the NSFK.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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Typhus

Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.

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Viktor Brack

Viktor Hermann Brack (9 November 1904 – 2 June 1948) was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and a convicted Nazi war criminal and one of the prominent organisers of the involuntary euthanasia programme Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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Wolfgang Benz

Wolfgang Benz (born 9 June 1941) is a German historian and anti-semitism researcher from Ellwangen.

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Wrocław

Wrocław (Breslau; also known by other names) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia.

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X-ray

X-rays (or rarely, X-radiation) are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.

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See also

Auschwitz concentration camp medical personnel

German Völkisch Freedom Party politicians

German expatriates in Ghana

People extradited from Ghana

People extradited to Germany

Physicians from the Province of Saxony

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Schumann