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Hans Wilhelm Münch (14 May 1911 – 6 December 2001), also known as The Good Man of Auschwitz, was a German Nazi Party member who worked as an SS physician during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945 in German occupied Poland. He was acquitted of war crimes at a 1947 trial in Kraków.
Hans Münch was a physician and SS officer who tested Auschwitz inmates for typhus and denied any knowledge of gas chambers. He gave contradictory and confused statements in interviews and was prosecuted for his role in the Holocaust.
Oct 15, 2018 · Learn about the controversial life and legacy of Hans Münch, a Nazi doctor who refused to participate in the selection of prisoners for death in Auschwitz. Find out how he was acquitted, called the "Good Man of Auschwitz", and later convicted for his racist views.
Mar 15, 2023 · But unlike many of his more infamous peers, this man went down in history as a good doctor, a good man, who did his best to save human lives, or at minimum, to preserve a sliver of dignity for the camps’ prisoners. His name was Hans Wilhelm Münch, also known as “The Good Man of Auschwitz.”. Hans Münch. (2023, March 14).
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Prisoner doctor Slavka Kleinová, who was housed in Block 10, described him not at all as the "good man," as Hans Münch is often described, but rather as one who "enjoyed making injections into the skin with solutions containing streptococcus toxins, with or without the addition of sulfonamides, to observe the patients' skin reactions.
Hans Wilhelm Münch (14 May 1911 – 6 December 2001), also known as The Good Man of Auschwitz, was a German Nazi Party member who worked as an SS physician during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945 in German occupied Poland. He was acquitted of war crimes at a 1947 trial in Kraków. Quick Facts Born, Died ...
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