Hans-Joachim Lang
- Bodies in the cellar
- Perpetrators and victims of a Nazi scientific crime
- Literature
Immediately after the liberation of Strasbourg from Nazi occupation in 1944, the bodies of 86 Jewish men and women were discovered in the basement of the University Anatomical Institute. They had been murdered in the Natzweiler concentration camp (Alsace); two anthropologists from Tübingen and Munich had previously selected them in Auschwitz. The client was the anatomist August Hirt, born in Mannheim in 1898, who, after studying, researching and teaching at the University of Heidelberg and elsewhere, held a chair at the Reich University of Strasbourg from 1941.
What exactly did the perpetrators want? Above all, who were the victims? Hans-Joachim Lang has spent years identifying them as part of his project The Names of the Numbers and is still researching their biographies.
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Lang, born in 1951, is a cultural scientist at the University of Tübingen and an author. He was a member of an international commission of the Université de Strasbourg, which was concerned with the investigation of the criminal human experiments and the medical-scientific collections at the Reich University of Strasbourg 1941-1944. He was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit.
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