Klaus Schadenfreude
2021-01-10 13:41:24 UTC
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PermalinkHe performed experiments with mustard gas on inmates at the
Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and played a lead role in the
murders of 86 people at Natzweiler-Struthof for the Jewish skeleton
collection.
Knowing even before the war ended that Jews would mercilessly hunt for
him, Hirt fled Strasbourg in September 1944, hiding in Tübingen in
southern Germany across the river from Alsace. Hirt committed suicide
on 2 June 1945, aged 47, at Schluchsee, Baden-Württemberg, in the
Black Forest.