Who Was Eduard Krebsbach and Why was he executed in 1947?

 

Eduard Krebsbach was a Nazi physician in the concentration camp of Mauthausen. It is exhibited in his story how a doctor, someone who is said to save lives, may turn cruel and lose all humanity.

He killed many by injecting gasoline or phenol directly into heart of prisoners hence the prisoners named him Dr. Spritz. He did not see it to be wrong, he believed that it was his work.

Krebsbach did not refute the murders on his trial. He claimed that prisoners who were ill and weak were just animals who need to be killed. He argued that it was humane since they were spared the burden of looking after them by the state. This is Nazi mentality: when a person was not able to work or serve there was no value in his/her life.

He refused to admit guilt. Some of the survivors such as Hans Marsalek took notes that gave testimony.

In 1946, Krebsbach was sentenced to war crimes in Dachau Trials. He was hanged on 1947 at Landsberg Prison. His tale is a shilling moral on malevolence and mindless blindness.

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