Wirths, Eduard, 1909-1945

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Name (Latin)
Wirths, Eduard, 1909-1945
Date of birth
1909-09-04
Date of death
1945-09-20
Gender
male
MARC
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 20752823
Wikidata: Q77330
Library of congress: no2005082895
Sources of Information
  • Dr. med. Eduard Wirths und seine Tätigkeit als SS-Standortarzt im KL Auschwitz, c2005:p. 4 of cover (Mediziner Eduard Wirths, 1909-1945)

Wikipedia description:

Eduard Wirths (4 September 1909 – 20 September 1945) was the chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Thus, Wirths had formal responsibility for everything undertaken by the nearly twenty SS doctors (including Josef Mengele, Horst Schumann and Carl Clauberg) who worked in the medical sections of Auschwitz between 1942 and 1945.

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