1. Friedrich Karl Hermann Entress was a German camp doctor in various concentration and extermination camps during the Second World War.
13 Facts About Friedrich Entress
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Friedrich Entress conducted human medical experimentation at Auschwitz and introduced the procedure there of injecting lethal doses of phenol directly into the hearts of prisoners.
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Friedrich Entress was captured by the Allies in 1945, sentenced to death at the Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials, and executed in 1947.
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Friedrich Entress was born on 8 December 1914 in Posen, a Polish-Prussian province, and graduated in medicine in either 1938 or 1939.
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Friedrich Entress was able to receive his doctorate in 1942 without writing a dissertation, "a privilege granted to Germans from the east".
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Friedrich Entress had grey eyes and dark blonde hair and was described as having a "Nordic" profile.
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Friedrich Entress was at the main Auschwitz camp between 11 December 1941 and 21 October 1943.
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Friedrich Entress conducted human medical experimentation at Auschwitz, along with Helmut Vetter and Eduard Wirths, where he operated in "Block 21" and was paid by the Bayer pharmaceutical subsidiary of IG Farben to test experimental drugs against typhus and tuberculosis.
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Friedrich Entress became a key player in the organisation and administration of killings by phenol.
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Josef Mengele, who had arrived at Auschwitz in May 1943, five months before Friedrich Entress left for Mauthausen-Gusen, carried on TB work at Auschwitz from 1943.
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Friedrich Entress was one of 61 defendants in the first mass Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials in 1946.
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On 11 May 1946, all 61 defendants in trial, including Friedrich Entress, were found guilty of war crimes.
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Several months later, Friedrich Entress filed for clemency, as did his wife on his behalf.