Aribert Heim
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Aribert Ferdinand Heim (28 June 1914 – 10 August 1992),[1] also known as Dr. Death and Butcher of Mauthausen, was an Austrian Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor. During World War II, he served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, killing and torturing inmates using various methods, such as the direct injection of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims.[2]
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Birth name | Aribert Ferdinand Heim |
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Born | (1914-06-28)June 28, 1914 Bad Radkersburg, Austria-Hungary |
Died | August 10, 1992(1992-08-10) (aged 78) Cairo, Egypt |
Allegiance | Nazi Germany |
Service/ | Schutzstaffel |
Years of service | 1940 (1940)–1945 (1945) |
Rank | SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain) |
Unit | Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp 6th SS Mountain Division Nord |
After the war, Heim lived in Cairo, Egypt, under the alias of Tarek Farid Hussein after his conversion to Islam.[3] In February 2009, after years of attempts to locate him, German television network ZDF had found Heim's passport and other documents in Cairo.[4] It was then reported that Heim had died there on 10 August 1992 from complications of rectal cancer, according to testimony by his son Ruediger and lawyer.[5] This information, though set forth by a German court, was questioned by Efraim Zuroff, a leading Nazi hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.[2][6][4] Zuroff stated that on a visit to Puerto Montt, Chile, in July 2008, Heim's daughter told him that Heim had died in 1993 in Argentina.[2] In 2012, a court in Baden-Baden confirmed again that Heim had died in 1992 in Egypt, based on new evidence provided by his family and lawyer.[1] The Wiesenthal Center continued to dispute these findings, and Heim remained on the list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals until 2013.[7]