Carl Clauberg was a German research gynecologist. During the Holocaust, he conducted medical experiments on the female prisoners at Auschwitz. His mass sterilization experiments caused severe pain and sometimes death. Clauberg also experimented on women imprisoned in the Ravensbrück camp.
Nazi physician Carl Clauberg (at left), who performed medical experiments on prisoners in Block 10 of the Auschwitz camp. Poland, between 1941 and 1944.
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Nazi physician Carl Clauberg, who performed medical experiments on prisoners in Block 10 of the Auschwitz camp. Place and date uncertain.
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SS officers and medical personnel on a tour of the newly built SS military hospital at the Auschwitz camp complex on September 1, 1944.
The five uniformed men in front (left to right) are Dr. Enno Lolling; Auschwitz commandant Richard Baer; Dr. Eduard Wirths; Rudolf Höss; and Karl Möckel. In the second row are Dr. Carl Clauberg (dressed in civilian clothing); Karl Höcker (between Lolling and Baer); and Karl Bischoff (between Wirths and Höss).
This photo is from an album that belonged to SS officer Karl Höcker. The Höcker Album includes 116 pictures taken in and around Auschwitz between May 1944 and January 1945. This photo was one of four images on a page with the caption “Tour” (“Besichtigung”).
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