Horst Schumann, German physician (born 1901)

Horst Schumann

Nazi SS doctor at Auschwitz (1906–1983)

Horst Schumann was an SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and medical doctor who conducted sterilization and castration experiments at Auschwitz and was particularly interested in the mass sterilization of Jews by means of X-rays. Hors d'atteinte, a book by Frédéric Couderc, published in…