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Hertha Oberhaizer: experiments, biography, photo

Hertha Oberhuezer is one of the most famous defendants of the Nuremberg trials of doctors. Her name aroused fear on many people, and newspaper stripes "decorated" her picture throughout the 46th year. It is still surprising to contemporaries how a simple doctor from the provinces could participate in terrible experiments on people?

The crimes of the Nazis terrify even after 70 years.

Hertha Oberhaizer: biography

Hertha was born in Cologne in 1911. Her parents were ordinary workers. The First World War and its consequences for Germany hit the Oberhuezer family budget very hard. His father was an engineer, that in the early 20th century, when the industrial industry was only spreading, it was a very prestigious job. But nevertheless, there was no money for Hertha's training. Therefore, she had to earn money on her own, combining studies with work. In 1937, Hertha graduated from the Medical University in Düsseldorf. The diploma allows her to continue her scientific career. After the beginning of the war, he gets a job as a doctor.

People who knew Oberhauser personally claim that during training and practice she repeatedly applied experimental methods on animals.

Classmates describe Gert as a closed and unsociable person. She behaved quite strangely, was petty, envious, mean. Like many people with a similar type of character, in 1937 she joined the Nazi party of Adolf Hitler.

Entry into the NSDAP

Hertha Oberhuezer joined the Nazi party two years before the Second World War. At that time, participation in the NSDAP was mandatory for all people who wanted to move up the career ladder in any field. But Herta also, apparently, was an ideological nazi. She did not show any political activity. At the moment, there is no evidence of her speaking at party meetings or similar activities. She was in the sister society, where the rules and statutes were followed, which every "real Germanic" should follow.

After a short career, Herta saw the announcement of the recruitment of medical personnel to the concentration camp Ravensbrück. She submitted an application and in 1941 started work.

Concentration camp

After the occupation of a number of territories, the first fierce battles began in Poland. The Third Reich came to the borders of the USSR and controlled a large part of Europe. From all lands, the local population and prisoners of war were taken to Germany. In prisons for a long time there were no places (they ended when the Nazis only came to power), so the prisoners were sent to concentration camps. One such - Ravensbruck, was almost 100 kilometers from Berlin. He was feminine. In addition to women, it also contained their children.

Initially, they drove "disgracing nation" German women. With the outbreak of the war, Roma and Jews began to be taken to the camp. After the occupation of Poland and Yugoslavia, the number of prisoners increased several times. A huge percentage of the polka. Also Serbians and representatives of other Slavic nationalities. In 1942, Soviet Red Army soldiers captured here in the battles for the Crimea began to be sent here.

Prisoners of the camp were obliged to work at the enterprise. They were mainly textile factories, later they were sent to military production. Also, women had to build barracks of the camp and the guard house. On the day of the prisoners received a few pieces of bread and potato or borage clearing. Due to malnutrition, hard work, terrible conditions of detention, torture and humiliation, by 1945, up to 92,000 women and children were killed in the camp.

Experiences

Many of them died as a result of medical experiments. The main task of such experiments was to study the behavior of the human body in various non-standard situations that could arise during hostilities. These are burns, cooling, wounds and other injuries. Hertha Oberhuezer was personally involved in such procedures. The experiments were conducted for several years and almost always resulted in death.

First, prisoners were selected, which, according to the Nazis, were most suitable for experimentation. Then they were deliberately mutilated, imitating the injuries received in battle. Then we observed. "Doctors" recorded the reaction of the body and the development of the disease. Most of the procedures were performed without anesthesia. At the stage of treatment, prisoners were injected with experimental sample preparations to study their effect.

Infections

For example, various objects such as rusty metal, earth, wood were introduced into the body of camp prisoners. Then there was an infection, which was treated in various ways. According to various people, Herta Oberhaizer not only took part in the experiments directly, but also enjoyed her work. She even took on the duties of other doctors who could not perform such monstrous operations. Most of the women who were tested were Poles. In 1943, Oberhuezer Hertha was transferred to Gerbhardt's hospital, where she worked until the end of the war.

The prisoners of Ravensbrück were subjected to experiments until the fall of the Nazi regime. In 1945, parts of the Red Army liberated the last prisoners. Many of them were sent to Scandinavian countries under the Red Cross program.

Nuremberg trials of doctors

Hertha Oberhuezer was captured at the end of the war and imprisoned. In 1946, a well-known process took place over the doctors.

He was widely covered in the media. The public was shocked by the horrendous facts of bullying people. During the trial Hertha stated that she was only a performer. Moreover, as a defense used the facts of killing "experimental" as an act of goodwill. All the leaders of the "experimental department" Ravensbruck were sentenced to death.

Hertha Oberhuezer was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but left in 10 years.

After her release, she worked in various medical institutions. In the process of this work, the former prisoner Ravensbruck learned that one of the doctors is Hertha Oberhuezer. Photos of the Nazis appeared in many local newspapers. Protests of the public forced the government of Germany to forbid Herte to work in medicine. Oberhaizer died on January 24, 1978.

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