The Pharmacist of Auschwitz

Victor Capesius kept the Nazi reserves of Zyklon B gas and provided drugs that were used by doctors to carry out horrific and deadly experiments on pregnant women and children. He rummaged through the corpses of Jews in search of gold fillings, and driven by greed, he dragged heavy suitcases filled with that metal extracted from thousands of victims. The Auschwitz pharmacist tells his story. After an exhaustive investigation, Patricia Posner recreates the story of Victor Capesius, from his time as a salesman in the pharmaceutical industry, his later incorporation into Nazism, his rise as a sinister figure in the concentration camps and the tortuous process that led to his capture and conviction in the Auschwitz trials. Posner presents unpublished documents and testimonies that reveal the life and work of one of the most sinister and unknown murderers of the brutal machinery of the Third Reich. The story of the cruelest man in Nazism.