Aribert Heim in 1959

Aribert Heim (born June 28, 1914- ????) is a former Austrian doctor. As an SS doctor in a Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, he is accused of killing and harrassing many inmates through various methods, such as direct injections of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims. Along with Alois Brunner, Heim — who would now be (as of 2008) in his early nineties — is one of the last major Nazi fugitives still at large. Image File history File links Aribert_heim. ... Image File history File links Aribert_heim. ... is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... SS redirects here. ... See also the related List of German concentration camps Concentration camp in Nazi Germany. ... Mauthausen is a small town in Upper Austria about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz. ... Toxic redirects here, but this is also the name of a song by Britney Spears; see Toxic (song) Look up toxic and toxicity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Alois Brunner, born April 8, 1912 in Nádkút, Hungary (now: Rohrbrunn, Burgenland, Austria), reports of death contested, is an alleged Austrian Nazi war criminal who was Adolf Eichmanns assistant, who called him his best man. ...

However, according to a 2007 publication by former Israeli Air Force Colonel Danny Baz,^[1] Heim was kidnapped from Canada and taken to Santa Catalina off the Californian coast, where he was killed by a Nazi hunting team code named “The Owl” in 1982.^[2] Baz himself claims to have been part of this group. The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, as well as the french Nazi Hunter Serge Klarsfeld say this is not true.^[3] The Israeli Air Force (IAF; Hebrew: זרוע האויר והחלל, Zroa HaAvir VeHaḤalal, Air and Space Division, commonly known as חיל האוויר Hel HaAvir) is the air force of the Israel Defense Forces. ... For other uses, see Colonel (disambiguation). ... Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. State of California. ... The Simon Wiesenthal Center The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish organization that declares itself to be a human rights group dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. ... Serge (born September 17, 1935 in Bucharest, Romania) and Beate (born February 13, 1939 in Berlin, Germany) Klarsfeld are called Nazi hunters for bringing Klaus Barbie and others to justice. ...

Heim's family previously said that he died in 1993 in Argentina, but did not provide a certificate of death or accept his inheritance.^[4][5]

Biography

Heim was born in Bad Radkersburg, Austria-Hungary. He was the son of a policeman and a housewife. He studied medicine and did his medical studies in Vienna before volunteering to join the Waffen-SS in the spring of 1940. Bad Radkersburg (Slovenia Radgona) is a city in the southeast of the Austrian state of Styria and capital of the district of Radkersburg. ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... Waffen-SS recruitment poster; Volunteer to the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS was the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel. ...

In October 1941, Heim was sent into the KZ Mauthausen, where he performed medical experiments on prisoners. He was later sent to an SS field hospital in Vienna. The Mauthausen parade ground – a view towards the main gate Mauthausen (known from the summer of 1940 as Mauthausen-Gusen) grew to become a large group of Nazi concentration camps that were built around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, roughly 20 km east of the city...

The prisoners in Concentration Camp Mauthausen called Heim "Dr. Death". For about two months (October to December 1941), Heim was in the camp near Linz, Austria, where he carried out similar experiments on Jews as the Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele had done. "Heim scared his prisoners to death," said a survivor. Jewish inmates were poisoned with various insertions directly into the heart in order to induce death more quickly. The doctor wanted to see which poison was the fastest and cheapest way to kill people.^{[citation needed]} Dr. Death is a moniker that has been adopted by, or an epithet that has been applied to, multiple people: Aribert Heim, an Austrian doctor and one of the worlds most wanted Nazi war criminals. ... For the town in Germany, see Linz am Rhein. ... Mengele in uniform Josef Mengele (March 16, 1911– February 7, 1979) was a German SS officer and a physician in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. ...

From February 1942 he served in the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord in Northern Finland, especially in Oulu's hospitals as a SS doctor. His service continued till at least October 1942.^[6] Image:Wss-6. ... Location of Oulu in Northern Europe Coordinates: , Country Finland Province Oulu Province Region Northern Ostrobothnia Sub-region Oulu sub-region Charter 1605 Government  - City manager Matti Pennanen Area  - City 449. ...

On March 15, 1945, Heim was captured by US soldiers and sent to a camp for prisoners of war. He was released under dubious circumstances and worked as a gynecologist at Baden-Baden until his disappearance in 1962.^[7] He had been tipped off by an informant that the Austrian police were investigating him for war crimes. Subsequently, he disappeared, moving to Spain, Uruguay (where he opened up a psychiatric and gynecologist clinic from 1979 to 1983), probably also Argentina and Paraguay,^[7] possibly also Egypt and Brazil,^[8] and then finally Spain again until 2005.^[7] is the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ... The shamefulness associated with the examination of female genitalia has long inhibited the science of gynaecology. ... , Baden-Baden is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...

After Alois Brunner (Adolf Eichmann's top assistant), Heim has been the second most wanted Nazi officer. Alois Brunner, born April 8, 1912 in Nádkút, Hungary (now: Rohrbrunn, Burgenland, Austria), reports of death contested, is an alleged Austrian Nazi war criminal who was Adolf Eichmanns assistant, who called him his best man. ... Otto Adolf Eichmann (known as Adolf Eichmann; March 19, 1906 – June 1, 1962) was a high-ranking Nazi and SS Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel). ...

Chase

Heim has reportedly hidden out in South America, Spain, and the Balkans. Efraim Zuroff, of the Wiesenthal Center, has initiated an active search for his whereabouts, and in late 2005, Spanish police determined his location as being Palafrugell.^[9] According to El Mundo, Heim had been helped by associates of Otto Skorzeny, who had organized one of the biggest ODESSA bases in Franco's Spain.^[10] ODESSA was obviously still in place, in one way or another. Press reports in mid-October 2005 suggested that Heim's arrest by Spanish police was "imminent". Within a few days, however, newer reports suggested that he had successfully evaded capture and had relocated either to another part of Spain or else to Denmark. South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Balkan redirects here. ... Efraim Zuroff (born 1949) is an American historian, described as Nazi hunter, and the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Jerusalem. ... Palafrugell is a municipality in the Mediterranean Costa Brava, located near Palamós in the comarca of Baix Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. ... Otto Skorzeny (June 12, 1908 – July 6, 1975[1]) was a Standartenführer[2] in the German Waffen-SS during World War II. After fighting on the Eastern Front, he is known as the commando leader who rescued Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from imprisonment after his overthrow. ... The ODESSA, which stands for the German phrase Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, which phrase in turn translates as “Organization of Former Members of the SS,” is the name commonly given to an international Nazi network alleged to have been set up towards the end of World War II... “Franco” redirects here. ...

In early 2006, Heim was believed to be in Chile, where his daughter Waltraud is reported to have lived since the early 1970s in Puerto Montt. Asked about her father's whereabouts by the Chilean authorities, under requests of Germany, Waltraud claimed that Aribert had died in 1993. However, when she tried to recover a million dollar inheritance from him (on an account in his name), she could not provide any death certificate.^[5] Puerto Montt Puerto Montt is a port city in southern Chile, located by the Reloncaví Sound, and is the capital of the Llanquihue Province and the Los Lagos Region, at . ...

Heim was alleged to have moved to Spain after fleeing Paysandú, Uruguay when he was located there by the Israeli Mossad.^[11] The German government is offering €150,000 for information leading to his arrest, while the Simon Wiesenthal Center launched Operation Last Chance, a project to assist governments in the location and arrest of suspected Nazi war criminals who are still alive. In the last five years, €300,000 have been withdrawn from his accounts and transferred to Spain and Denmark. An Italian couple of Palafrugell, Spain has contact with one of Heim's sons in the Costa Brava region of Spain. Paysandú is the capital of the department of Paysandú in Uruguay. ... For the Haganah branch responsible for coordinating Jewish immigration into the British Mandate of Palestine, see Mossad Lealiyah Bet. ... Operation Last Chance was launched in 2005 by Simon Wiesenthal Center in order to track down Ex-Nazis still in hiding, before they die of old age. ... Palafrugell is a municipality in the Mediterranean Costa Brava, located near Palamós in the comarca of Baix Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. ...

The money transferred from the account raised the suspicions of Israeli officials, who contacted the Criminal Institute in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. After the Criminal Institute looked into the account, they concluded that the money was Heim's, which suggested that Heim was still alive, and that his family had lied about his alleged death in South America due to cancer. German investigators, together with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, discovered Heim's secret bank accounts in Berlin in the early 2000s. They proved to hold €1 million (£680,000, $1,350,000) in cash and other assets. Heim has been assumed to be still alive, and this is substantiated by the fact that none of his three children ever claimed any of this money. Tax records prove that, as late as 2001, Heim's lawyer asked the German authorities to refund capital gains taxes levied on him because he was living abroad. Location Coordinates , , Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE1 Capital Stuttgart Minister-President Günther Oettinger (CDU) Governing parties CDU / FDP Votes in Bundesrat 6 (of 69) Basic statistics Area  35,752 km² (13,804 sq mi) Population 10,741,000 (11/2006)[1]  - Density... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ... The Simon Wiesenthal Center The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish organization that declares itself to be a human rights group dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ...

Fredrik Jensen, a Norwegian and former SS, was put under police investigation in June 2007, charged with assisting Aribert Heim in his escape. The accusation was denied by Jensen.^[12]

In July 2007, the Austrian Justice Ministry declared that they would pay €50,000 for information leading to his arrest and extradition to Austria.^[13]

References

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See also

• List of living Nazis

This is a list of Second world war era Nazis that are still alive and presumed/considered war criminals. ...

External links

• Germany expresses 'utmost interest' in seeing Nazi face justice, Ireland Online, 17 October 2005.
• Nazi 'Dr. Death' tracked to Spain, Ottawa Sun / AP, 16 October 2005.
• German courts seek Nazi fugitive thought to be in Chile, The Santiago Times, 26 April 2006.
• Warrant of Apprehension Austrian Justice Ministry, July 2007.