The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. Based in part on previously classified documents, Patricia Posner exposes Capesiusâ€™s reign of terror at the camp, his escape from justice, fueled in part by his theft of gold ripped from the mouths of corpses, and how a handful of courageous survivors and a single brave prosecutor finally brought him to trial for murder twenty years after the end of the war.

The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is much more, though, than a personal account of Capesius. It provides a spellbinding glimpse inside the devilâ€™s pact made between the Nazis and Germanyâ€™s largest conglomerate, I.G. Farben, and its Bayer pharmaceutical subsidiary. The story is one of murder and greed with its roots in the dark heart of the Holocaust. It is told through Nazi henchmen and industrialists turned war criminals, intelligence agents and zealous prosecutors, and intrepid concentration camp survivors and Nazi hunters.

Set against a backdrop ranging from Hitlerâ€™s war to conquer Europe to the Final Solution to postwar Germanyâ€™s tormented efforts to confront its dark past, Posner shows the appalling depths to which ordinary men descend when they are unrestrained by conscience or any sense of morality. The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is a moving saga that lingers long after the final page.
Country USA
Manufacturer Crux Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-01-18
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Crux Publishing
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-01-18
Format	Kindle eBook

The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story

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