The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is a moving saga that lingers long after the final page. Set against a backdrop ranging from Hitler’s war to conquer Europe to the Final Solution to postwar Germany’s tormented efforts to confront its dark past, Posner shows the appalling depths to which ordinary men descend when they are unrestrained by conscience or any sense of morality. She has long been been fascinated by the mostly untold story of Victor Capesius, an ethnic German from Romania who ended up as the chief pharmacist at Auschwitz. It is told through Nazi henchmen and industrialists turned war criminals, intelligence agents and zealous prosecutors, and intrepid concentration camp survivors and Nazi hunters. The story is one of murder and greed with its roots in the dark heart of the Holocaust. Victor Capesius was a Nazi SS-Sturmbannfhrer (Major) and KZ-Apotheker (concentration camp pharmacist) in the concentration camps of Dachau (19431944) and.
Farben, and its Bayer pharmaceutical subsidiary. It provides a spellbinding glimpse inside the devil’s pact made between the Nazis and Germany’s largest conglomerate, I.G. The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little known story of Victor Capesius. The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is much more, though, than a personal account of Capesius. What do readers say about The Pharmacist of Auschwitz. The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz.īased in part on previously classified documents, Patricia Posner exposes Capesius’s reign of terror at the camp, his escape from justice, fueled in part by his theft of gold ripped from the mouths of corpses, and how a handful of courageous survivors and a single brave prosecutor finally brought him to trial for murder twenty years after the end of the war.
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