Herta Oberheuser is a German doctor convicted by the Nuremberg Tribunal. She served in the concentration camps Auschwitz and Ravensbrück from 1940-1943.
In 1937, Oberheuser received his medical education in Bonn, specializing in dermatology. Shortly thereafter, she joins the NSDAP and later served as a doctor for the German Girls' Union. In 1940, Gert was appointed as assistant to Karl Gebhard, who was the personal physician of Heinrich Himmler.
War crimes
Oberheuser and Gebhard arrive at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1942 to conduct medical experiments on prisoners. They conducted a series of experiments contrary to medical ethics, for example, the treatment of purposefully infected wounds with sulfonamide, bone and muscle transplantation. These experiments were carried out on 86 women.
In another series of experiments, healthy children were selected, who were euthanized using various injections, and their corpses were subjected to autopsy and careful analysis. To simulate the battle wounds of German soldiers, Oberheuser studies the effect of materials such as wood, nails, glass on living tissues.
Hertha Oberheuser was the only woman in the doctors' trial in Nuremberg, according to which she was sentenced to 20 years in prison - later the term was reduced by 5 years.
Last years
Oberheuser was released in April 1952. for good behavior and gets a job as a family doctor in West Germany. But in 1956 she was identified by one of the surviving prisoners of Auschwitz, as a result she loses her job, and in 1958 her medical license was also taken away.
Herta Oberheuser died on January 24, 1978.
