Auschwitz pharmacist

The little-known story of Auschwitz pharmacist Victor Capesius, Bayer's Romanian pharmaceutical agent, who became a member of the Nazi SS in 1943 at the age of thirty-five and was soon appointed chief pharmacist of the largest death camp, Auschwitz. Based on previously encrypted documents released in 2016 through the author's intervention, Patricia Posner describes Capesius' horrors in the camp and how he tried to evade justice after the war while living in civilian prosperity from the values seized from prisoners and the mouths of the dead. made of gold. It took twenty years for him to be convicted thanks to a determined prosecutor and some brave survivors. However, the book not simply traces Capesius ’life course, but also pulls the veil off the inhumane businesses of IG Farben, Germany’s largest industrial conglomerate and its subsidiary, Bayer, backed by Hitler’s“ ultimate solution ”. We can get an idea of how completely ordinary people have become unscrupulous, morally defiant, greedy killing machines, and how future generations are trying to process it all.