THE GREEN KING (part 47)
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The Photographer
from Salzburg
The fourth man
was, quite simply, Karl-Heinz Lothar. He was a heavy set, re-faced man, quite
tall, with, as often happens, very small, almost feminine hands. In spite of
the coolness produced by the stone ceiling, he was sweating profusely, and he
was frightened.
Two Austria
photographers worked at Hartheim castle between the fall of 1940 and the end of
March 1945. One of them is still alive, and lives today in Linz; Wiesenthal
refers to him as Bruno Bruckner.
The other one
was Karl-Hienz Lothar. For him, everything started in Mei-October 1940. He was
forty-seven years old. He was summoned by the Gauleitung of Linz, questioned as
to his capacity to perform certain special photographic tasks’ and remain
totality discreet concerning them. He was offered three hundred and forty marks
a month. He accepted and was taken by car to Hartheim castle, which already had
been baptized a ‘sanatorium’.
He director of
the establishment was, at the time, captain Christian Wirth, who eventually, as
a reward for the excellence of his work at Hartheim, was made general director
of the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka camps in Poland. Franz Strangl succeeded
him as director of Hartheim, alter also at Treblinka. The medical direction of
the sanatorium was in the hands of Dr Rudolf Lehauer of Linz, with the
assistance of Dr Georg Renno. (Lehauer killed himself in April 1945; Renno was
arrested in 1963).
Wirth explained
to Lothar the sort of work they expected of him; he was to take the best
possible shots of the sick people on whom the Hartheim doctors were performing
experiments, at the rate of thirty or forty per day. These experiments
consisted of determining the most effective way to kill people and of
perfecting, in this field, truly efficient techniques, while establishing a
scientifically exact graph of the degree of suffering a human body can
withstand before succumbing.
TO BE CONTINUED
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