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University of Tübingen. University of Munich. Hans Wilhelm Münch(14 May 1911 – 6 December 2001), also known as The Good Man of Auschwitz, was a German Nazi Partymember who worked as an SSphysician during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration campfrom 1943 to 1945 in German occupied Poland. He was acquitted of war crimesat a 1947 trial ...
Mar 15, 2023 · Hans Münch was born on May 14, 1911, in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden, then part of the Second German Reich. His parents were Ernst and Mathilde, née Zahn. Hans inherited from Ernst an interest in science, and after graduating from high school, he took up medicine, studying at the universities of Münich and Tübingen.
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Münch, Hans. Hans Münch (14 May 1911 – 27 Jan. 2002), SS Untersturmführer, was a physician who in June 1943 was assigned to the southeastern branch of the Hygiene Institute of the Waffen SS at Rajsko, a village near Auschwitz. In that role, he was involved in testing thousands of blood and stool samples of Auschwitz inmates to verify ...
TIL of Hans Münch, a doctor known as The Good Man of Auschwitz because he refused to assist in the atrocities. His experiments were elaborate farces intended to protect inmates. He was the only person acquitted of crimes at the 1947 Auschwitz trials after many inmates testified in his favour.
In 1998, Münch made derogative statements about Roma and Sinti on the French radio programme France-Inter, where he said that the Roma were "pathetic" and the gas chambers would have been the only solution for them. This was after Alzheimer's struck. Maybe the disease made him suddenly racist. Maybe it just tore off his filters. Who's to say.
This article explores the life and actions of Dr. Hans Münch, a man who stood out for his humanity amidst the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II. Unlike many of his peers, Münch is remembered as a compassionate figure who sought to preserve the dignity and lives of the camp’s prisoners. Hans Münch was born on May 14, 1911 ...
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Dr. Hans Münch was written about in The Nazi Doctors by Robert Jay Lifton and described as "a human being in an SS uniform" (Lifton 303). It was not until 1995 that my acquaintance with Dr. Münch began. Dr. Münch had been interviewed by Eva Mozes Kor in 1993. She had found a statement in a Justice Department Report on Josef Mengele that ...
