From Wikipedia: Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 in Cologne, German Empire – 24 January 1978 in Linz am Rhein, West Germany) was a physician at the Ravensbrück concentration camp from 1940 until 1943.
She worked there under the supervision of Dr. Karl Gebhardt,
participating in gruesome medical experiments (sulfanilamide as well as bone,
muscle, and nerve regeneration and bone transplantation) conducted on 86 women,
74 of whom were Polish political prisoners in the camp. Oberheuser killed
healthy children with oil and evipan injections, then removed their limbs and
vital organs. The time from the injection to death was between three and five
minutes, with the person being fully conscious until the last moment. She
performed some of the most gruesome and painful medical experiments, focusing
on deliberately inflicting wounds on the subjects. In order to simulate the
combat wounds of German soldiers fighting in the war, Herta Oberheuser rubbed
foreign objects, such as wood, rusty nails, slivers of glass, dirt, or sawdust
into the cuts.
Herta Oberheuser was the only female defendant in the
Nuremberg Medical Trial (United States of America v. Karl Brandt, et al.; December 9,
1946 through August 20, 1947.), where she was sentenced to 20 years in jail.
“She was released in April 1952 for good behaviour and
became a family doctor at Stocksee in Germany, only to lose her position in
1956 after a Ravensbruck survivor recognised her. Her licence to practise
medicine was revoked in 1958. She said of her service: ‘Being a woman didn’t
stop me being a good National Socialist. I think female National Socialists
were every bit as valuable as men in keeping what we believed in alive.’”
[Allan Hall]
She died in January 1978 at the age of 66.
[Allan Hall, “Nazi women exposed as every bit as bad as
Hitler's deranged male followers,” Daily Mail, Taeterinnen: Frauen im Nationalsozialismus, 2008,
Boehlau Verlag
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