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   From: Art@Arthurian.com   
      
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   Aribert Heim, born in 1914 in Radkersburg, Austria, joined the local   
   Nazi party in 1935, three years before Austria was annexed by Germany.   
   He later joined the Waffen SS and was assigned to Mauthausen, near   
   Linz, Austria, as a camp doctor in October and November 1941.   
      
   Heim was accused of taking part in experiments on Jewish prisoners,   
   such as injecting various solutions into their hearts to see which was   
   the quickest killer. He was indicted in Germany in absentia on   
   hundreds of counts of murder in 1979.   
      
   Karl Lotter, a non-Jewish prisoner who worked in the Mauthausen   
   concentration camp's hospital, said he remembered the first time he   
   saw Heim kill.   
      
   An 18-year-old Jew had been sent to the clinic with a foot   
   inflammation and Heim asked the boy why he was so fit. The young man   
   said he had been a soccer player and swimmer before he was imprisoned,   
   Lotter said.   
      
   Lotter said Heim anesthetized the teenager and began operating on him   
   but instead of treating the inflamed foot, he cut the young man open,   
   castrated him, took apart one kidney and removed the second, Lotter   
   said. The victim's head was then removed and the flesh boiled away so   
   that Heim could keep it on display.   
      
   Lotter's account of the 1941 atrocity was in a witness statement he   
   gave eight years later, part of a 1950 Austrian warrant for Heim's   
   arrest uncovered by the AP last year. "Of all the camp doctors in   
   Mauthausen, Dr. Heim was the most horrible," Lotter said.   
      
   The Heim case seems strikingly similar to that of another SS doctor -   
   Josef Mengele - who eluded authorities to the end.   
      
   Mengele, who conducted cruel experiments the Auschwitz death camp,   
   drowned in Brazil in early 1979 and experts identified the body as his   
   six years later.   
      
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