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Dr. Death is No More

by coldwarrior ( 50 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, History, Holocaust, Islamists, Open thread, World War II at September 21st, 2012 - 6:00 pm

Converted to Islam???  Oh, that is just perfect.

 

From Der Spiegel:

 

Search for ‘Dr Death’ Ends Nazi War Criminal Aribert Heim Declared Dead

A photo of Aribert Heim taken in 1950 that was used in efforts to capture the suspected Nazi war criminal. Zoom

AP/ LKA BW

A photo of Aribert Heim taken in 1950 that was used in efforts to capture the suspected Nazi war criminal.

For decades, investigators searched in vain for Aribert Heim, a notorious Nazi war criminal known as “Dr. Death.” On Friday, a court in Baden-Baden officially declared Heim dead. He is believed to have lived for years undetected in Egypt, where he converted to Islam.

 

Few of the Nazi war criminals who escaped prosecution after the war were the subject of so many rumors, stories and speculation as Aribert Heim. For decades, the former concentration camp doctor, who was called “Dr. Death” and the “Butcher of Mauthausen” for his brutality, had been one of the most sought after Nazis. The question of whether Heim was still alive kept police, judges, Nazi hunters and the media occupied for decades.

 

Three years ago, the first evidence of Heim’s deathemerged. Now that version of events has become official. On Friday, a district court in the German town of Baden-Baden declared Heim to be dead and ended legal proceedings against the suspected war criminal. The judges concluded that Heim died of cancer in Egypt in 1992.Heim had topped the list of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s most-wanted Nazi war criminals. During World War II, Heim is believed to have murdered more than 300 people in a grizzly manner at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Among other things, he had been charged with injecting gasoline into patients’ bodies near their hearts and operating on people without anaesthesia.

After the war, Heim remained in Germany, working as a doctor at a gynaecological practice in Baden-Baden until 1962, when he went into hiding. In 1979, the public prosecutor’s office in Baden-Baden pressed charges against Heim and issued an international arrest warrant.

In 2007, German investigators intensified their search for Heim, monitoring family and friends of the war criminal more closely in Austria and Spain. Together, private individuals and public institutions had offered a six-figure bounty on information leading to Heim’s capture.

Suspect Lived for Decades in Egypt

The jury court said Friday it believed that Heim left Germany in 1963 using his second name Ferdinand and that he traveled to Egypt on a tourist visa. He then lived in hiding in Cairo for decades using the name. In 1980, he apparently converted to Islam and then assumed the name Tarek Hussein Farid. They believe he died at the age of 78 on Aug. 10, 1992 in Cairo.

 

Both the New York Timesand German broadcaster ZDF reported in 2009 about Heim’s purported death. A few days later, a middleman provided state police investigators with documents relating to Heim’s alleged death. And earlier this year, SPIEGEL reported that the case was close to getting resolved.After initial doubts, criminal investigators in the state of Baden-Württemberg now believe the documents are authentic. In addition, Heim’s defense attorney also presented investigators with further documents including a certificate indicating he had converted to the Muslim faith.

The court also heard testimony from Heim’s son, who officials said had given credible statements. The judges on Friday said they have no doubt that Heim and Tarek Hussein Farid are the same person and that he died of cancer-related complications in 1992.

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50 Responses to “Dr. Death is No More”
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  1. 1 | September 21, 2012 6:14 pm

    Doctor Death ist todt.


  2. 2 | September 21, 2012 6:15 pm

    So he converted to Islam?

    Gosh, what a surprise.


  3. coldwarrior
    3 | September 21, 2012 6:20 pm

    The Other Les wrote:

    So he converted to Islam?
    Gosh, what a surprise.

    perfect.


  4. buzzsawmonkey
    4 | September 21, 2012 6:35 pm

    Many people do not realize that a large number of Nazis went to Arab lands after the Third Reich was destroyed. Alois Brunner went to Syria, and rose in prominence there; a few years ago another Nazi was recorded as having just died in Egypt.

    There is a reason why Arab antisemitic cartoons look so much like retreads from Der Sturmer; in many cases, they are. The Mufti of Jerusalem, Yassir Arafat’s uncle, was a guest of Hitler’s during the war, a supporter of the Final Solution, and a recruiter of Muslims for the Waffen SS. Gamal Abdel Nasser was a member of a Nazi group of Egyptian officers before he rose to become dictator of Egypt.

    The Israelis, in their fight for survival, are still fighting the closing battles of WWII, against the Nazis’ literal ideological heirs. When the US allies itself with Islamist regimes, it is more often than not allying itself with the ideological descendants of those whom the Greatest Generation fought to defeat.


  5. John Difool
    5 | September 21, 2012 6:39 pm

    Makes sense these former Nazis went to muslim countries & converted to Islam since like the Reich it’s a death-cult.

    Probably wasn’t that hard of a transition.


  6. Vinegar Joe
    6 | September 21, 2012 6:47 pm

    I hope it hurt. Really hurt.


  7. 7 | September 21, 2012 6:56 pm

    Good riddance. An anti-Semitic Nazi scumbag turns into an anti-Semitic barbarian scumbag. Hope they’ve got him in a really toasty section of Hell.


  8. 8 | September 21, 2012 6:57 pm

    @ Vinegar Joe:

    Nothing compared to the hurt he undoubtedly experienced and hopefully is still experiencing in the after life. Crimes that heinous should be paid for twice.


  9. Lily
    9 | September 21, 2012 6:57 pm

    @ buzzsawmonkey:

    Apparently they never disavowed their belief system and just carried to another country that was very open to the Nazi’s. They actually maintained there hatred and belief system. Disgusting to say the least. That they got to live a long time in hiding. Dr. Death good grief…the horrors these people did to others is just plain evil to the bone.


  10. lobo91
    10 | September 21, 2012 7:01 pm

    Leia wants me to serve the chicken now. It’s only been cooking for 15 minutes.

    //Never let a Sheltie cook poultry for you


  11. John Difool
    11 | September 21, 2012 7:04 pm

    Biden Does It Again !

    He walked down a pathway with a coach in Newport orange and reached about 100 students in their sports uniforms waiting for him in a semi-circle. He cradled a football under his arm as he spoke. He began by asking which teams were represented – football, soccer, lacrosse and cross-country. Any others? He asked.

    “Cheerleaders,’’ a group of girls shouted.

    “Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college,’’ VPOTUS told them. “You think, I’m joking, they’re almost all gymansts [sic], the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.’’

    “Anyway it’s so great to see you guys,’’ he said.


  12. lobo91
    12 | September 21, 2012 7:12 pm

    “Why does Governor Romney not just release all his tax returns so the voters can make their own judgment about his finances?”

    --Obama Mouthpiece Stephanie Cutter

    I have a better question: Why does President Obama not release his transcripts so the voters can make their own judgment about his intelligence?


  13. AZfederalist
    13 | September 21, 2012 7:16 pm

    Converted to islam? Well, he served Satan during WWII, he now will spend eternity with Satan. Fitting that he joined the religion of the deceiver while he lived out the rest of his life.


  14. AZfederalist
    14 | September 21, 2012 7:18 pm

    @ lobo91:

    +100

    … and how many years worth of the Obama’s tax returns have been released? Do we have any details on her no-show job in Chicago?

    /Yeah, (D)idn’t think so.


  15. 15 | September 21, 2012 7:53 pm

    Vinegar Joe wrote:

    I hope it hurt. Really hurt.

    Oh it will. 72 times over!


  16. 16 | September 21, 2012 8:35 pm

    @ John Difool:
    There is this also.


  17. livefreeor die
    17 | September 21, 2012 8:49 pm

    @ Rancher:
    More proof that stupidity is contagious!


  18. 18 | September 21, 2012 8:53 pm

    @ livefreeor die:
    Biden’s speech was the most watched of both conventions. Will he screw up? Drinking game!


  19. 19 | September 21, 2012 10:00 pm

    Rancher wrote:

    Will he screw up?

    It’s not a question of if, but how.


  20. Speranza
    20 | September 21, 2012 10:07 pm

    A Leno joke, transmitted by Andrew Malcolm: “Leno: MSNBC reports the economy has bottomed out. There’s an Obama slogan: ‘It Can’t Get Any Worse Than This.’”


  21. livefreeor die
    22 | September 21, 2012 11:43 pm

    @ Moe Katz:
    This, along with the women in Iran beating up the cleric who chastized them for being poorly uncovered, could be the beginning of something very good!


  22. Moe Katz
    23 | September 21, 2012 11:46 pm

    livefreeor die wrote:

    This, along with the women in Iran beating up the cleric who chastized them for being poorly uncovered, could be the beginning of something very good!

    Dare one hope?


  23. Will Consult for Food
    24 | September 21, 2012 11:56 pm

    OT but I just returned from a 2 day Boy Scout Campout with semi-automatic weapons, 1000+ rounds of .22 and 30 06 ammo, bacon, pancakes, hot wings, chicken fettuccine, more bacon, PB&J, steak fajitas, pulled pork BBQ, chips and salsa, lots of root beer, sunburn, rifles, handguns, a really cool semi-auto machine pistol, frisbee, pooping in the woods, two sons that shot 5 on a dime from 50 feet, exploding tomatoes, peanut M&Ms, and an old helium tank that looks like pink swiss cheese with really big exit holes.

    Paradise!


  24. Guggi
    25 | September 22, 2012 12:38 am

    @ buzzsawmonkey:

    The Egyptian secret service was built and lead by Nazis after WWII. They also created the propaganda against Israel.

    Many Nazis fought with the Syrians against Israel in the war of independence.


  25. Poteen
  26. lobo91
    27 | September 22, 2012 12:45 am

    @ Will Consult for Food:

    Sounds like a good trip!


  27. lobo91
    28 | September 22, 2012 12:47 am

    @ Poteen:

    Ty and Glen were not assigned to the Ambassador’s security detail. However, when the attack against the Consulate came, they ran toward the sound of gunfire

    The difference between sheep and sheepdogs, to borrow from one of Bill Whittle’s essays.


  28. 29 | September 22, 2012 12:48 am

    @ Moe Katz:
    Thanks for that.

    Danios / Loonwatch reported that there are Libyans who appreciate what the US did -- and especially what Stevens did -- to eject Qaddafi. I’d sneered at that earlier. Maybe I should have taken it more seriously. Danios is a propagandist, but he is not necessarily always wrong.

    Libya is a tribal place and if Benghazi goes one way, I could easily see Tripoli going the other way. Qaddafi would have kept Tripoli if it weren’t for the Arabists in our diplomatic corps.

    There have got to be anti-Qaddafi Libyans who are as disgusted at what happened to Stevens as we are.

    If the secular Libyans end up winning out, I’ll be VERY happy to eat crow.


  29. Moe Katz
    30 | September 22, 2012 12:50 am

    @ Zimriel:
    Well, I think it would be a mistake to see the Muslim world in overly monolithic terms. Time will tell.


  30. Moe Katz
    31 | September 22, 2012 12:52 am

    And don’t forget that the Islamists did NOT win the elections in Libya, the liberals held a plurality.


  31. Poteen
    32 | September 22, 2012 12:54 am

    @ Will Consult for Food:
    There may be hope for us yet. :)


  32. Alberta Oil Peon
    33 | September 22, 2012 1:27 am

    Well crapdoodle! It’s deader in here than a Colombian whorehouse during a Secret Service convention. Oh, wait….


  33. Moe Katz
    34 | September 22, 2012 1:28 am

    @ Alberta Oil Peon:
    Any comment on Peter Lougheed’s legacy?


  34. John Difool
    35 | September 22, 2012 2:53 am

    Did I miss something with X from DoD? I know I’ve been gone a bit but he’s now allied himself with a holocaust denier.

    Please tell me he’s banned from posting over there or here.


  35. Guggi
    36 | September 22, 2012 4:25 am

    John Difool wrote:

    Did I miss something with X from DoD? I know I’ve been gone a bit but he’s now allied himself with a holocaust denier.

    Who is “X” and who is the Holocaust denier ?


  36. Guggi
    37 | September 22, 2012 6:21 am

    A 21st-Century Islam

    The Muslim world cannot have it both ways. It cannot place Islam at the center of political life — and in extreme cases political violence — while at the same time declaring that the religion is off-limits to contestation and ridicule.

    (…)
    Politics is a rough-and-tumble game. If the emergent Islamic parties of nations in transition — like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Ennahda in Tunisia — are to honor the terms of democratic governance they will have to concede that they have no monopoly on truth, that the prescriptions of Islam are malleable and debatable, and that significant currents in their societies have different convictions and even faiths.

    The past couple of weeks have been discouraging. Nobody expects a U.S. standard of freedom of speech to be adopted — or even fully understood — in these societies; they will set their own political and cultural frameworks inspired by a still fervent desire to escape from despotism, whether secular or theocratic, and by the central place of faith.

    (…)


  37. 38 | September 22, 2012 7:06 am

    @ John Difool:

    You’re not referring to Bunk X, are you?


  38. Calo
    39 | September 22, 2012 7:29 am

    @ Macker:
    No, not Bunk X.

    He is referring to Pan on DoD / XCirizen 10 on twitter.


  39. mawskrat
    40 | September 22, 2012 7:44 am

    Dr. Death….mans inhumanity to man


  40. 41 | September 22, 2012 7:51 am

    @ Calo:

    Oh. It.


  41. RIX
    42 | September 22, 2012 7:52 am

    Good morning. I just picked up two daily newspapers from the driveway.
    In both papers Romneys tax return is above the fold headlines.
    Must be nothing going on in the world./


  42. friendlygrizzly
    43 | September 22, 2012 8:03 am

    I imagine another 5 to 10 years the Nazi hunt will draw to a close. How many could still be living at that point?

    Language nit-pick: “… 300 people in a grizzly manner…”. Unless these deaths were at the hands (paws?) of very large, four-footed, hairy beings of ursine persuasion, the word is “grisly”.


  43. Guggi
    44 | September 22, 2012 8:11 am

    @ friendlygrizzly:

    What’s about neo-Nazis ?

    Look at Germany


  44. mawskrat
    45 | September 22, 2012 8:36 am

    Coldwarrior….big party in Zinzinnati this week end
    1,300 barrels of beer to be consumed.

    More than 500,000 herren und frauen (men and women) are expected to converge on a six-block area of Fifth Street to eat, sing, mingle, sport lederhosen, listen to polka music, try to speak German and perform the Chicken Dance

    Read more: http://www.wcpo.com/generic/entertainment/citybeat/local_events/Oktoberfest-2012#ixzz27CX1TvwM


  45. mawskrat
    46 | September 22, 2012 8:37 am

    @ mawskrat:

    and if the Reds win today it will be a big bash!!!!


  46. mawskrat
    47 | September 22, 2012 8:48 am

    ‘I liked to shoot everything -- women, kids… it was kind of sport’: Secret Nazi tapes reveal how ordinary German soldiers were responsible for war crimes and not just SS

    Transcripts taken from hidden microphones on prisoners of war have been collated for the disturbing book Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2206982/I-liked-shoot--women-kids--kind-sport-Secret-Nazi-tapes-reveal-ordinary-German-soldiers-responsible-war-crimes-just-SS.html#ixzz27CbfScr3
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  47. John Difool
    48 | September 22, 2012 10:24 am

    Calo wrote:

    @ Macker:
    No, not Bunk X.

    He is referring to Pan on DoD / XCirizen 10 on twitter.

    Yea him. He’s turned into quite the disgusting little cretin these days. Shame that, I liked him over at DoD.

    Not sure what happened but it appears he’s lost his shit, Chuckles style.


  48. Alberta Oil Peon
    49 | September 22, 2012 1:50 pm

    @ Moe Katz:
    I still condemn him for having caved in to the commie Trudeau on the National Energy Program.


  49. Vinegar Joe
    50 | September 23, 2012 3:27 pm

    @ Guggi:

    And serving British officers commanded Jordanian forces fighting against Israel. Read up on Lieutenant General John Bagot Glubb (aka Glubb Pasha) and the Arab Legion.


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