Life

The family of cousin originating from Thuringia moved 1914 to Frankfurt/Main. There Hellmuth studied cousin medicine at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe university. In the year 1933 he spent one term in Graz and became after its return to Frankfurt (July) in October 1933 member of the SS. At the beginning of of 1934 it began his graduation work, its doctor father was the later gau lecturer leader Heinrich Guthmann. It received the doctor title to at the end of of 1935 and worked starting from 1936 in the hospital Rastpfuhl. Besides it was active as a SS-physician at the medical relay I/85. In the year 1937 it became finally still member of the NSDAP. With the change to the chemical concern Bavarian in Leverkusen 1938 began cousin career in the system of the concentration camps. With Bavarian as scientific coworkers adjusted, cousin in several KZ tested new preparations at the prisoners.

Its work began on 29 July 1941 in the KZ Dachau, where it tested sulfone amide preparations of Bavarian on their effect against Gonorrhoe, pneumonia and other indications. Its contempting for human beings attitude comes out from letters to its colleagues in Leverkusen, in whom it writes over Dachau, it would be one "“besteingerichtetsten K.L."” in the realm and he would occur himself "“as in the Paradies"”. With the mechanism of the model project work village 1942 cousin was shifted there. To the dissolution of work village it changed on 13 October 1942 into the straight again furnished concentration camp Auschwitz Monowitz. Mono joke was established first as external bearing of the KZ Auschwitz. The prisoners accommodated there were consulted for the setting up the Buna works for the I.G. colors. Although as a camp physician employed, cousin appeared usually only once per week in the camp, also then went it not around the supply of the prisoners, but around the selection of the Todgeweihten, which were sent into the Gaskammern. Also in mono joke it continued the test series at humans. Here it concerned tests from typhus fever preparations of the I.G. colors. His employer Bavarian wrote 1942 in a letter to the company most: "“Dr. Vetter has, like already in the previous year, a large typhus fever station in Auschwitz, where he has opportunity for the thorough examination of new medicines."”. Cousin last station is 1944 - accompanying with the transport to the - the Mauthausener external bearing Gusen. Over its there experiments the Mauthausener physician writer Ernst Martin wrote 1945 that at the attempts "“innumerable prisoners went at the basis"”.

After end of war Hellmuth cousin was accused of its crimes. An US-American military court condemned it on 12 August 1947 to death. The judgement was executed on 2 February 1949 in Landsberg.

Literature

• Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, the LV medicine and her victims, Fischer paperback publishing house, Frankfurt/Main, 2004

Related links

• Physician newspaper: Auschwitz - metaphor for the hardly recordable bad
• Coordination against Bavarian dangers: Dr. Vetter - Bestie of Auschwitz

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