births
October 5, 1912
Fritz Fischer, German physician and convicted war criminal (died 2003)
Fritz Fischer (medical doctor)
Fritz Ernst Fischer was a Nazi German medical doctor who performed medical atrocities on inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. He was tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1947 Doctors' Trial; he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to 15 years and he was released in 1954.