The pharmacist of Auschwitz : the untold story of Victor Capesius / Patricia Posner.

By:

Posner, Patricia [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: United Kingdom : Crux Publishing, 2017Description: 253 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781909979413
1909979414

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Biographies

DDC classification:

940.5318

Summary: "This is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at Auschwitz. There he dispensed drugs for horrific medical experiments, managed the poisonous gas that killed millions, and performed life and death selections of arriving transports of Jews."--Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-243) and index.

"This is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at Auschwitz. There he dispensed drugs for horrific medical experiments, managed the poisonous gas that killed millions, and performed life and death selections of arriving transports of Jews."--Back cover.

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