- August Hirt
August Hirt (
April 28 1898 inMannheim –June 2 1945 in Schönenbach/Schwarzwald ), an SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain), served as a chairman at the Reich University inStrasbourg duringWorld War II .Working with the Ahnenerbe division,
Wolfram Sievers ,Bruno Beger and Hirt together collected human skeletons from among the Dachau inmates, and ultimately had 79Jewish men, 30 Jewish women, 2 Poles, and 4 "Asians" sent toNatzweiler-Struthof , gassed, and their bodies returned to them.Some speculate that the Asian victims were in fact Soviets, and there is mention that Hirt used this opportunity to test the effects of
mescaline as a poison.Fact|date=July 2007Hirt committed suicide in Schönenbach.
ources
* [http://www.auschwitz.org.pl/new/index.php?language=EN&tryb=stale&id=372 Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum]
Additional reading
*Courand, Raymond (2005), Un camp de la mort en France: Struthof Natzweiler, Strasbourg:Ed. Hirlé. ISBN 2-914729-27-8.
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