Helmuth Vetter (21 March 1910 in
Rastenberg :''The Polish town of Kętrzyn was formerly known as Rastenburg.''
Rastenberg is a town in the district of Sömmerda, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 22 km east of Sömmerda, and 23 km northeast of Weimar.
History
Within the Germ ...
– 2 February 1949) was an ''
SS-
Hauptsturmführer'' and a
Nazi
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...
war criminal.
Vetter was a doctor at the
Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) 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. It con ...
extermination camp, appointed chief doctor by ''
Reichsführer-SS''
Heinrich Himmler. He joined other doctors (such as
Hans König
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,
Heinz Thilo
Heinz Thilo (8 October 1911 in Elberfeld 13 May 1945 in Hohenelbe) was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.
Thilo joined the Nazi party
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, and
Fritz Klein
Fritz Klein (24 November 1888 – 13 December 1945) was an Austrian Nazi doctor and war criminal, hanged for his role in atrocities at Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Early life and educ ...
) in the task of choosing employable
Jews to operate the industrial machines and sending others to the
gas chambers. He also carried medical experiments on prisoners, involving phenol injections
As paid retainer of
IG Farben
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, Vetter would also deliberately infect prisoners in Auschwitz, Dachau and
Gusen to carry out medical experiments. After the war, Vetter was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death. He was hanged in the prison of
Landsberg am Lech
Landsberg am Lech (Landsberg at the Lech) is a town in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg. It is the capital of the district of Landsberg am Lech.
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.
References
External links
"Medical Experiments at KZ Guzen", Jewish Virtual Library
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1910 births
1949 deaths
Holocaust perpetrators in Austria
Holocaust perpetrators in Poland
People from Sömmerda (district)
People from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Nazi Party members
Physicians in the Nazi Party
SS-Hauptsturmführer
Auschwitz concentration camp medical personnel
Mauthausen concentration camp personnel
Dachau trials executions
Executed people from Thuringia
Executed mass murderers