Historical FigureFemale
Herta Oberheuserová
1911 – 1978
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryHerta Oberheuser was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. For her role in the Holocaust, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Doctors' Trial, but served only five years of her sentence. A survivor of Ravensbrück called Oberheuser "a beast masquerading as a human".
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
May 15, 1911
Cologne
Date of death
January 24, 1978
Linz am Rhein
Citizenship
Germany
Occupations & fields
military physicianphysicianconcentration camp guardpoliticiandermatologist
- Field and occupation
- německá válečná zločinkyně
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