Pencil sketches of Nazis by dr K Prabhakar Rao

Dr SEGMUND RASCHER( Below)

Dr Rascher was a Luftwaffe medical doctor and he was transferred to Dachau camp as he was not found medically fit for active service .He was involved in conducting experiments on prisoners to study effect of  very low temperatures on human bodies. Pilots were downed in icy oceans and these studies were made to find methods of treatment for such victims. Selected prisoners were submerged in icy waters in a large tub and the body temperatures were monitored and blood samples were collected from the neck for analysis. Many times, the victims died.Live victims were given warmth by artificial heating and made to lie between two women for increasing temperature. Some times, body inner organs were removed even when victims were alive and sent yo Munich for pathological analysis. Dr Rascher later was arrested at the orders of Himmler as the doctor adopted a baby and claimed that his wife delivered a baby although she was of  a higher age. He had already had two kids  and he claimed that he was successful in increasing the fertility age of women due to his research. Himmler felt cheated by the doctor.Allies were fast approaching and the camp was being evacuated. It is believed that Dr Rascher was shot in the head by a SS staff member Theodor Bangartz and killed in cell no 73 in the bunker. It is not known why he was killed in the cell and why he was not taken to the execution stand in the camp. The real truth is still elusive.Some believe that he might have escaped capture by allies.Generally it is believed that he was executed in the last moments of capture of the camp by US troops.

HELENA KOPPER ( above )

She was Polish national imprisoned at concentration camp after Poland was occupied on the charge that she had anti Nazi literature. Neither she nor her husband was a Jew. She was sent to Belsen camp where she was given some prisoner control duties as block leader.She was prisoner controlling fellow prisoners.After WWII , she was arrested and tried at Belsen trials along with 40 persons. She was found guilty of ill treating and berating prisoners and was given 15 years jail term. She was released in 1952.