World's most wanted Nazi who brutally experimented on humans 'died in Egypt in 1992'By Ryan Kisiel
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The world's most-wanted Nazi war criminal - who carried out appalling experiments on conscious human subjects - is believed to have died in Egypt, it has emerged.
Arebit Heim, known as 'Doctor Death', lived under a pseudonym and died in Cairo in 1992, according to a German television channel.
ZDF says it found Heim's passport and other personal documents in a hotel where he had lived since the late 1960s.
Heim was a concentration camp doctor during the Second World War and was accused of killing hundreds of victims by using horrific medical experiments.
Researchers believe that he converted to Islam and even claim to have interviewed Heim's son, confirming that he died in 1992.
A certified copy of a death certificate obtained from Egyptian authorities confirmed witness accounts that the man called Heim is believed to have used the name Tarek Hussein Farid, which an Egyptian official record states died in 1992.
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Tarek Hussein Farid is the name my father took when he converted to Islam,' said his alleged son, Rüdiger Heim.
In an interview in the family’s villa in Baden-Baden, Mr. Heim, 53, admitted publicly for the first time that he was with his father in Egypt at the time of his death from rectal cancer.
He said: 'It was during the Olympics. There was a television in the room, and he was watching the Olympics. It distracted him. He must have been suffering from serious pain.'
Guy Walters, author of Nazi war criminal book Hunting Evil, said: 'Heim is one of the major criminals of the last century, and if true this revelation is hugely significant.
'His experiments that he carried out on concentration camp victims were disgusting and he was currently being hunted for his crimes.
'We like to think of South America as being the sanctuary of Nazis, but this proves that Islamic states were just as happy to play host to them after the war.
'This was partly because some Islamic states agreed with the Nazis hatred of the Jews and also these people were wanted for their scientific knowledge.
'There were always rumours during the 1950s that Egypt had Nazi scientists and they were working on weapons to launch against Israel.'
An SS doctor in the mould of the notorious Josef Mengele, Heim carried out the most horrific ‘experiments’ on those who came under his ‘care’ at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
After the war, survivors recalled how the so-called ‘doctor’ would inject substances such as petrol, water or poison directly into his victims’ hearts.
He would often perform operations without anaesthesia to see how much pain humans can endure.
In another ‘experiment’, Heim took a healthy 18-year-old Jewish athlete as one of his guinea pigs.
The young man, who was complaining of a sore foot, instead was cut open, had his kidneys removed and dissected, was then castrated, decapitated, the flesh boiled off his skull, which was then used as a display piece.
Heim kept a record of all his ‘operations’, an unashamed testimony to his own bestiality.
Unsurprisingly, the medical value of the ‘experiments’ carried out by men such as Heim and Mengele was negligible. After the Second World War, Heim escaped punishment for his crimes as they had not been fully investigated.
Although he was captured in a general roundup of leading Nazis by US forces in March 1945, he was released because his name did not appear on any of the quickly drawn-up wanted lists of war criminals the Allies had drawn up.
Heim became a gynaecologist in West Germany until 1962, when his past caught up with him in the form of the Austrian police, who were finally investigating him for his war crimes.
Heim was tipped-off and he escaped, reportedly to Spain and then to Uruguay, where he opened up a gynaecological practice.
Since the 1960s, Heim had been able to live a relatively unmolested life, and he has quietly amassed a small fortune.
According to the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, there were nearly a million pounds in a bank account in his name.
Investigators in Israel and Germany had believed Heim was alive and hiding in Latin America, near where a woman alleged to be his illegitimate daughter lived in Chile.
Witnesses from Finland, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Argentina have sent tips and reported sightings to investigators.
Leading Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre said he had not seen the documents , but if true, would be 'earth shattering' news.
Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal tipped of Israeli intelligence that Adolf Eichmann, credited for being the architect of the Holocaust, was living in Argentina.
In 1960, Mossad agents captured Eichmann, smuggled him to Israel where he stood trial and was executed for war crimes.
An estimated 6 million Jews died in Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War.
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