| It took 46 years for the riddle of one of the worst Nazi war criminals to be
solved – now these photos (above) show where Hitler’s ‘Dr.
Death’ lived.
The Nazi monster, who was known for his extreme and cruel experiments in the
WWII concentration camps, was holed up in shabby former
Kasr el Medina hotel in central Cairo.
Every day the former Nazi doctor walked the streets of the city, read the Koran,
prayed in the Al Azhar Mosque and visited the J. Groppi
café. Eye-witnesses report that he bought sweets for
friends’ children, who called him ‘Uncle Tarek’.
The search for the Nazi war
criminal Aribert Heim lasted more than 40 years with
a reward of €300,000 offered for finding him, before
reports from ZDF and New York Times discovered he had
died.
Documents and eye-witness
reports have confirmed that Heim died on August 10, 1992,
in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after suffering from
colon cancer. Heim, who was 78 when he died, is said
to have lived there unrecognised for nearly 30 years
after he converted to Islam and took the name Tarek Farid
Hussein.
Heim lived in the hotel for
ten years, in which time he became friends with the Doma
family who owned the hotel. He built a tennis net on
the roof of the building. The son of the owner Mamoud
Doma said “He gave me books, was like a father to me.
I loved him and he loved me.”
The Egyptians liked Heim,
but were not aware of his awful past and the fact that
he was top of the list of the most wanted Nazi criminals.
As a concentration camp doctor,
he undertook horrific experiments on the victims in the
Mauthausen camp in Linz, Austria:
- He injected petrol and chemicals into their hearts
and made notes on how they reacted.
- Heim removed organs from healthy concentration camp
inmates without anaesthetic.
- Lampshades for the camp’s commanders were made out
of the tanned skin of dead victims at his command.
- He searched for inmates
with healthy teeth, had them killed, boiled their skulls
and placed them on his desk.
Heim’s remains are said to
have been hastily buried in an anonymous grave near Cairo’s
old town. German investigators now want to dig up the
bones of the ‘Mauthausen butcher’.
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