About Herta Oberheuser
Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 – 24 January 1978) was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. For her role in the Holocaust, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Doctors' Trial, but served only five years of her sentence. A survivor of Ravensbrück called Oberheuser "a beast masquerading as a human". == Education and Nazi Party membership == In 1937, Oberheuser obtained her medical degree at the University of Bonn, Germany, having specialized in dermatology. She had a residency in the department of dermatology of the University of Düsseldorf. Soon thereafter she joined the Nazi Party as an intern, and later served as doctor for the League of German Girls. During this period, she wrote a number of antisemitic tracts that would subsequently be entered into evidence at her trial. In 1940, Oberheuser was appointed to serve as an assistant to Karl Gebhardt, then Chief Surgeon of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Heinrich Himmler's personal doctor. == War crimes == Oberheuser and Gebhardt were posted to Ravensbrück in 1942 in order to conduct experiments on its prisoners, with an emphasis on finding better methods of treating infection. The experiments were performed by a group of doctors and nurses known as the 'Hohenlychen group', so named because they had worked at the SS sanatorium at Hohenlychen.
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