'Aribert Heim
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Aribert HeimAribert Heim (born June 28, 1914) is an Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals. The German government is offering 150,000 pounds for information leading to his arrest. As an SS doctor in a concentration camp in Mauthausen, he is accused of killing many inmates through sadistic methods, such as direct injections of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims without painkillers.
Heim was born in Bad Radkersburg, Austria, as the a son of a policeman and a housewife. He studied medicine and did his doctorate in Vienna before volunteering to join the Waffen-SS in the spring of 1940. In October 1941 he was sent into the KZ Mauthausen where he performed gruesome medical experimentation on prisoners. He was later sent to an SS field hospital in Vienna.
On the March 15th 1945, he was captured by US soldiers and sent to a camp for prisoners of war. He was released under dubious circumstances and worked as a doctor at Baden-Baden until his disappearance in 1962. He had been tipped off by an informant that the Austrian police were investigating him for war crimes. Subsequently, he disappeared from view, but there is still a worldwide arrest warrant for him.
German investigators together with the Simon Wiesenthal centre discovered Heim's secret bank accounts in Berlin in the early 2000s. They proved to hold €1 million (£680,000) in cash and other assets. Heim has been assumed to be still alive, supported by the fact that none of Heim's 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 tax levied on him because he was living abroad. Heim has reportedly hidden out in South America, Spain and the Balkans. Efraim Zuroff, Simon Wiesenthal's successor at the Wiesenthal centre has initiated an active search for his whereabouts, and in late 2005, Spanish police determined his location as being Palafrugell, Spain.'
But, yes, it was Old Black Joe, the Butcher of Buchwald, that was known as the Doctor of Death. Least that's how I always heard it.
