Zuroff stated that on a visit to Puerto Montt, Chile, in July 2008, Aribert Heim's daughter told him that Aribert Heim had died in 1993 in Argentina.
23 Facts About Aribert Heim
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In 2012, a court in Baden-Baden confirmed again that Aribert Heim had died in 1992 in Egypt, based on new evidence provided by his family and lawyer.
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The Wiesenthal Center continued to dispute these findings, and Aribert Heim remained on the list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals until 2013.
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Aribert Heim was born on June 28,1914 in Bad Radkersburg, Austria-Hungary, the son of a policeman and a housewife.
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Aribert Heim studied in Graz, and received his diploma in medicine from the University of Vienna in 1940.
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Aribert Heim volunteered for the Waffen-SS in April 1940, rising to the rank of Hauptsturmfuhrer.
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Aribert Heim worked in Mauthausen for six weeks as a doctor starting in October 1941 at the age of 27.
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Aribert Heim reportedly removed organs from living prisoners without anesthesia, killing hundreds.
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Lotter provided more gruesome details about how Aribert Heim butchered the 18-year-old prisoner, stating that Aribert Heim gave him anesthetic and then proceeded to cut him open, castrate him, and take out one of his kidneys.
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Marcelino Bilbao Bilbao stated that Aribert Heim drew blood from him for six weeks and later injected him with a liquid that ended up paralyzing his body.
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From February 1942, Aribert Heim served in the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord in northern Finland, especially in Oulu's hospitals as an SS doctor.
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On 15 March 1945, Aribert Heim was captured by US soldiers and sent to a camp for prisoners of war.
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Aribert Heim would remain imprisoned for a two-and-a-half year period.
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Tax records prove that, as late as 2001, Aribert Heim's lawyer asked the German authorities to refund capital gains taxes levied on him because he was living abroad.
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Aribert Heim reportedly hid out in South America, Spain and the Balkans, but only his presence in Spain has ever been confirmed.
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On 6 July 2008, Efraim Zuroff, the Wiesenthal Center's chief Nazi-hunter, went to South America as part of a public campaign to capture the most wanted Nazi in the world and bring him to justice, claiming that Aribert Heim was alive and hiding in Patagonia, either in Chile or in Argentina.
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Aribert Heim elaborated on 15 July 2008 that he was sure Heim was alive and the groundwork had been laid to capture him within weeks.
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In 2008, Aribert Heim was named as one of the ten most wanted Nazi war criminals by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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Aribert Heim had a daughter, Waltraud, born out of wedlock in Chile.
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Aribert Heim claimed he intended to make a donation to humanitarian projects working to document the atrocities committed in the camps.
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People in Egypt who knew Aribert Heim said they did not know he was a wanted man.
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In 2012, a regional court in Baden-Baden confirmed that Aribert Heim died under the assumed identity of Tarek Hussein Farid in Egypt in 1992, based on papers from his lawyer and testimony from his son.
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Ruediger Aribert Heim recounted how Egyptian authorities had forced him to have his father interred in an unmarked common grave in Cairo, rendering it impossible for investigators to find Aribert Heim's remains for DNA testing.