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Apr 28, 1898 Mannheim, Baden Württemberg, Germany Died on 02 Jun 1945 (aged 47)
German anatomist and SS officer
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About August Hirt
- August Hirt (28 April 1898 – 2 June 1945) was an anatomist with Swiss and German nationality who served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg during World War II.
- He performed experiments with mustard gas on inmates at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and played a lead role in the murders of 86 people at Natzweiler-Struthof for the Jewish skeleton collection.
- The skeletons of his victims were meant to become specimens at the Institute of anatomy in Strasbourg, but completion of the project was stopped by the progress of the war.
- He was an SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) and in 1944, an SS-Sturmbannführer (major).
