Dr. Otto E. Heidl, one of the three defendants accused of responsibility for hundreds of killings in the concentration camp at Stutthof near Danzig, hanged himself in his prison cell in Bochum while on trial.
Dr. Heidl, who in recent years has been a general medical practitioner at Tegernbach near Regensburg, in Bavaria, was, during the Nazi regime, concentration camp physician in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gross-Rosen and then Stutthof. Under the guise of performing his medical duties, he gave lethal injection to hundreds and perhaps thousands of Jewish inmates. The trial is continuing against Heidl’s co-defendants, Otto Karl Knott and Paul Werner Hoppe.
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