Doctor herta oberheuser interview

German physician and war criminal

Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 – 24 January 1978) was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp.^[1] For her role in the Holocaust, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Doctors' Trial, but served only five years of her sentence.

A survivor of Ravensbrück called Oberheuser "a beast masquerading as a human".^[2]

Education and Nazi Party membership

In 1937, Oberheuser obtained her medical degree at the University of Bonn, Germany, having specialized in dermatology.^[3] She had a residency in the department of dermatology of the University of Düsseldorf.^[4] Soon thereafter she joined the Nazi Party as an intern, and later served as doctor for the League of German Girls.^[3] In 1940, Oberheuser was appointed to serve as an assistant to Karl Gebhardt, then Chief Surgeon of th