SS-DOCTOR DR. JOHANN KREMER
Dr. Johann P. Kremer (SS-Obersturmfźhrer), born in 1883, was associate professor for anatomy at the University of Mźnster and had habilitated himself with a thesis "†ber die VerŠnderung des Muskelgewebes im Hungerzustand" ("The Change of Muscles in a State of Hunger"). He came to Auschwitz in April 1942 in order to pursue his research on hunger. Therefore, he selected so-called "MuselmŠnner", Women and men who suffered from hunger-illness and were both physically and mentally extremely weakened.
Later, in his Polish arrest, Kremer said:
""When I was interested in someone because of his advanced starving process, I ordered the first-aid man to reserve that ill person for me and to tell me when he would be killed by injection. At that time, those selected were brought into the block and laid on the dissection table alive. I moved to the table and asked the ill prisoner about details which were relevant for my research: the weight before the arrest for example, the loss of weight during the imprisonment, if he had recently taken medicaments and so on. When I had this information, the first-aid man advanced and killed the patient with an injection to the heart. I personally have never given such lethal injections."(Source: State Museum Auschwitz: Auschwitz in den Augen der SS)
He described the conditions in the camp as follows:
"For the first time being at a "Sonderaktion" at three a.m. Comparing to what's going on here, the Dante's Inferno is almost a comedy. Auschwitz is not for nothing called camp of extermination." (Source: Langbein, Hermann:...wir haben es getan)
After the war, Kremer was sentenced to ten years' imprisonement in Poland. Back in the Federal Republic of Germany, he again was sentenced to ten years which were by that time seen as completed already. He died in 1965.