Killer Doctors by Kenneth Gibson

Author:Kenneth Gibson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781906476595
Publisher: Neil Wilson Publishing
Published: 2012-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

In hiding, Mengele was despondent, cautious and doubted his luck would hold. He returned to Günzburg and his family, but did not live with them, preferring to hide in the woods. Soon, fearing detection, he moved again. Dr Kahler introduced Mengele to a neurologist, Dr Fritz Ullmann, whom he had met in captivity. Ullmann became Mengele’s confidant and to him he admitted his heinous crimes. Ullmann provided Mengele with another false identity, that of himself. While staying with a childhood friend, Dr Albert Miller, American troops arrested Miller for his Nazi connections. A fearful Mengele hid in a back room.

After a fruitful but highly dangerous three-week journey into Soviet occupied East Germany to find the nurse who held the notes he treasured, Mengele returned to Bavaria. At first he stayed with a pharmacist friend in Munich who had served with him in the Viking SS Division. Mengele next contacted and obtained the assistance of Ullmann’s brother-in-law, yet another doctor, who found a farm for Mengele to live and work on. In the Bavarian hamlet of Mangolding, the war criminal worked for a farmer, George Fischer, as Fritz Hollmann, ironically selecting potatoes into those fit or unfit for human consumption.

For the best part of three years, Mengele laboured on the small Alpine farm, with occasional forays home. He worked hard, ate well, played and laughed with the Fischer children and read prodigiously. The family guessed their employee was a wanted Nazi. His soft hands, educated accent and obvious intelligence gave him away. They never enquired of ‘Hollmann’s’ past and, satisfied with his work, discipline and temperament, helped register him in his new name.

Elsewhere in Germany, poverty, starvation and uncertainty plagued the ravaged country. Younger brother Alois was in Yugoslavian captivity, the Americans detained his father for his Nazi sympathies, his mother died in early 1946 and his wife and son Rolf lived with Mengeles’ in-laws in Günzburg. The name of Mengele, hitherto unknown, was becoming more and more familiar to the Americans. With his murderous role in Auschwitz recounted by numerous survivors, Mengele became a wanted man. This intensified even more so after the Belsen trials.

Held at the end of 1945 on Luneburg Heath at the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, at this trial some of Mengele’s old cronies were brought to justice, including Irma Grese and the former commandant of Auschwitz and Belsen, Dr Josef Kramer. Both were hanged but not before Grese admitted to the cruelties she was accused of and named Mengele as the man who ordered her to act so viciously. To add insult to injury, his old mentor Verschuer retained his professorship and accused Mengele of carrying out experiments without his knowledge. Verschuer claimed to know nothing of the gassings, experiments without anaesthetic or the source of the blood, tissue and skeletal samples Mengele forwarded to him during the war. Colleagues supported Verschuer in claiming that Mengele was an aberration, a person for whom they had only contempt. Verschuer temporarily fell into disfavour, losing his post at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.

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