Aribert Ferdinand Heim (born 28 June 1914 – allegedly died 10 August 1992) was an Austrian doctor, also known as Dr. Death. As an SS doctor in a Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, he is accused of killing and torturing many inmates by various methods, such as direct injections of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims. He is alleged to have lived for many years in Cairo, Egypt under the alias of Tarek Farid Hussein and reportedly died...
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Aribert Ferdinand Heim (born 28 June 1914 – allegedly died 10 August 1992) was an Austrian doctor, also known as Dr. Death. As an SS doctor in a Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, he is accused of killing and torturing many inmates by various methods, such as direct injections of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims. He is alleged to have lived for many years in Cairo, Egypt under the alias of Tarek Farid Hussein and reportedly died there on 10 August 1992. His grave and body have not been found. At the end of a BBC documentary, broadcast 12 September 2009, it was stated that German police visited Cairo in 2009 but found no evidence of Heim's death. Heim is on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals.
Heim was born in Bad Radkersburg, Austria-Hungary. He was the son of a policeman and a housewife. He studied medicine in Graz, receiving his doctorate in Vienna, joining the SS after the Anschluss. He volunteered for the Waffen-SS in the spring...
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