Execution of Auschwitz Nazi doctor who experimented on children before hanging them - A. Trzebinski

Alfred Trzebinski was born on 29 August 1902 in the town of Jutrosin, today’s Poland, then part of the German Empire. On 30 January 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. On the very same day, Trzebinski married Käthe, a fellow student and member of the National Socialist Women's League, the female wing of the Nazi Party. However, the marriage was childless and ended in divorce after a few years. The Second World War started on 1 September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Trzebinski was a member of the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS, but due to kidney stones, he was not sent to the front. Instead, in the spring of 1941, he was assigned to serve at Auschwitz concentration camp, located in German-occupied Poland. Trzebinski’s assignment to Auschwitz marked the beginning of his involvement in one of the most notorious sites of human suffering during the Second World War. Auschwitz was not only a concentration camp but also a place where painful and often deadly medical experiments were conducted on prisoners. These experiments aimed to push the boundaries of science with complete disregard for human life. In the spring of 1944, Enno Lolling, the chief physician of all concentration camps, ordered one of Neuengamme’s barracks to be set aside for Dr. Kurt Heissmeyer’s secret medical experiments. Heissmeyer wanted to test how the body reacted to injections of tuberculosis bacilli and assess an antidote he developed. His experiments on about 30 Polish and Russian prisoners were largely unsuccessful, as most of them died. By the fall 1944, Heissmeyer requested the transfer of Jewish children to serve as "guinea pigs" for his reckless theories. Twenty Jewish children, aged 5 to 12, were brought to Neuengamme from Auschwitz at the end of November 1944.
By early spring 1945, it was clear that Germany had lost the war. The Nazis, in a rush to cover up their barbaric crimes, began destroying evidence. As part of this effort, the victims of Heissmeyer’s experiments also had to disappear, and Alfred Trzebinski was appointed to carry out the order.
This took place on the night of 20 April 1945 in the former school building at Bullenhuser Damm, which served as a subcamp of Neuengamme.
Around midnight, a small postal truck pulled up in front of the building. First, six Russian prisoners were taken from the truck and led to the back of the school, where they were directed to the basement.



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