Horst Fischer
Horst Paul Silvester Fischer (31 December 1912 – 8 July 1966) was a German medical doctor and member of the
SS who participated in selections in
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during
World War II. He selected at least 70,000 prisoners to be gassed, then supervised their gassings. Although he avoided immediate detection after the war, Fischer's crimes came to light in the late 1950s. After tracking him down, Fischer was arrested by East German secret police officials in 1965. In a high-profile public case tried directly by the
Supreme Court of East Germany, Fischer, the highest-ranking concentration camp doctor to ever stand trial in front of a German court, was found guilty of crimes against humanity and condemned to death. He was executed by
guillotine in 1966.
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