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The Trial of a Nazi Doctor examines the life of Franz Bernhard Lucas (1911-1994), an SS camp doctor with assignments in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Stutthof, Ravensbrück, and Sachsenhausen. Covering his career during the Third Reich and then his prosecution after 1945, especially in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, Andrew Wisely explores the lies, obfuscations, misrepresentation, and confusions that Lucas himself created to deny, distract from or excuse his participation in the Nazi’s genocidal projects. By juxtaposing Lucas’s own testimonies and those of a wide range of witnesses: former camp inmates and Holocaust survivors; friends, colleagues, and relatives; and media observers, Wisely provides a nuanced study of witness testimonies and the moral identity of Holocaust perpetrators.
Andrew Wisely is Associate Professor of German at Baylor University (Texas), where he teaches German language, literature, history, and culture. He has published articles in Central European History (2019), Holocaust Studies (2020), and S.I.M.O.N. (2021), and has also published a book chapter in Recognizing the Past in the Present. New Studies on Medicine Before, During, and After the Holocaust (Berghahn Books 2020).
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I: Lucas the SS Doctor
Chapter 1. Radicalization (1933—1943)
Chapter 2. Auschwitz-Birkenau (December 1943—August 1944)
Chapter 3. Mauthausen and Stutthof (August—December 1944)
Chapter 4. Ravensbrück (December 1944—February 1945)
Chapter 5. Sachsenhausen and Exit from the SS (March—April 1945)
Part II: Lucas the Accused
Chapter 6. Under Scrutiny: Becoming the Accused (1956—1963)
Chapter 7. “White Raven” of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1964)
Chapter 8. Confession, Closing Arguments, Judgment (1965)
Chapter 9. The Path Toward Acquittal (1965—1970)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index