{"id":734,"date":"2009-12-24T23:30:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T05:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=734"},"modified":"2009-12-24T23:30:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T05:30:03","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-december-24-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For December 24, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Mysteriously Omitted Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time he watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man. It was 1941, and an 18-year-old Jew had been sent to the clinic with a foot inflammation. Heim asked him about himself and why he was so fit. The young man said he had been a soccer player and swimmer. Then, instead of treating the prisoner&#8217;s foot, Heim anesthetized him, cut him open, castrated him, took apart one kidney and removed the second, Lotter said. The victim&#8217;s head was removed and the flesh boiled off so that Heim could keep it on display.&#8221;He needed the head because of its perfect teeth,&#8221; Lotter, a non-Jewish political prisoner, recalled in testimony eight years later that was included in an Austrian warrant for Heim&#8217;s arrest uncovered by The Associated Press. &#8220;Of all the camp doctors in Mauthausen, Dr. Heim was the most horrible.&#8221; But Heim managed to avoid prosecution, his American-held file in Germany mysteriously omitting his time at Mauthausen, and he lived in Cairo until his death from cancer in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.aol.com\/story\/_a\/doctor-heads-list-of-wanted-nazis\/20080429210209990001?icid=100214839x1201046496x1200039084\">AOL News<\/a><br \/>\nGenerously donated by: Suzy<\/p>\n<p>What a monster. I hate stories like this, where the bad guy gets away without punishment&#8230; Grrrrrrrrrr&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Mysteriously Omitted Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time he watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man. It was 1941, and an 18-year-old Jew had been sent to the clinic with a foot inflammation. Heim asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}