Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen

Edwin Katzenellenbogen
Edwin Katzenellenbogen in April 1947 as defendant at the Buchenwald Trial
Born Edwin Maria Katzenellenbogen
(1882-05-22)May 22, 1882
Stanislau
Died After 1955
Nationality German
Occupation Psychiatrist
Known for war criminal

Edwin Maria Katzenellenbogen (also spelled Katzen-Ellenbogen) was an American eugenicist and physician in the concentration camp of Buchenwald. Of Polish-Jewish extraction, he had become a naturalized US citizen and worked as a eugenicist for the Carnegie institution. In the 1930s he was in Germany, and ended up in Buchenwald where he collaborated with the Nazis as a doctor. He became known for his cruelty especially towards French communists. In the Buchenwald Camp Trial (part of the Dachau Trials) he was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment (later modified to 15 years of imprisonment).[1]

References

  1. ↑ "The Story of the New Jersey Doctor Who Helped Kill Prisoners at Buchenwald in the Name of Eugenics". waragainsttheweak.com.

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