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| March 23, 2010 | Over 200 SS documents unearthed near Auschwitz | |
Berlin:Over 200 documents relating to the work of the chutzstaffel (SS) have been discovered near the Auschwitz concentration camp. A house owner living in the town
of Auschwitz had unearthed the documents during a restoration, and many of the
files, which
were hidden 65 years ago, refer to SS Doctor Victor Capesius, who worked with
"Angel of Death" Josef Mengele at the camp where over one million people were
killed, The Telegraph reports. Capesius, who was a pharmacologist by profession,
assisted Mengele in selecting those needed for medical experiments and those that
could be condemned to the gas chambers. Survivors claim that Capesius force fed
prisoners with experimental drugs to see how they would react. "I remember one
of the SS doctors (Capesius) holding my jaw open and forcing pills down my throat.
I'm still very wary of men wearing white coats," Zoe Polanska Palmer told a BBC
documentary. Capesius was convicted of assisting in the murder of 8,000 individuals
in 1959, and was sentenced to nine years in jail in Germany . He died in 1985.
Since the SS was efficient at either removing or destroying documents relating
to their work, how the documents came to be hidden in the house remains a mystery.
The speculation doing the rounds is that they were smuggled out of Auschwitz as
liberating Soviet forces approached the camp in 1945, and hidden for safe keeping. |
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