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August Hirt (28 April 1898 – 2 June 1945) was an anatomist with Swiss and German nationality who served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg during World War II.
In 1942, SS-Hauptsturmführer August Hirt, a professor and head of the department of anatomy at the Reich University in Strasbourg, set about assembling a collection of Jewish skeletons under the auspices of the Ahnenerbe Foundation.
August Hirt was a professor of anatomy and a member of the SS and the Ahnenerbe Society. He proposed to Himmler to collect Jewish skulls for his research and carried out medical experiments and gassings on prisoners at Auschwitz and Natzweiler.
In 1942, SS-Hauptsturmführer Prof. Dr. August Hirt, chairman of the anatomy department at the Reich University in Strassbourg, set about assembling a collection of Jewish skeletons under the auspices of the Ahnenerbe Foundation.
Jul 19, 2015 · August Hirt was a Nazi anatomy professor who collected body parts of 86 Jews killed in a gas chamber in Strasbourg in 1943. Some of his preserved samples were discovered at a forensic institute in 2015 and will be returned to the Jewish community.
Introduction August Hirt (1898–1945), professor of anatomy at the Reichsuniversität in Straßburg in German-occupied Alsace-Lorraine, achieved macabre renown for atrocities perpetrated within the framework of the “SS-Ahnenerbe” (an SS ancestral heritage think tank) during the Nazi period.
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Mar 1, 2016 · August Hirt (1898–1945), professor of anatomy at the Reichsuniversität in Straßburg in German-occupied Alsace-Lorraine, achieved macabre renown for atrocities perpetrated within the framework of the “ SS-Ahnenerbe ” (an SS ancestral heritage think tank) during the Nazi period.
