[Seed] An American War Criminal at Buchenwald

By Edwin Black

The incredible story of an American eugenicist, Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, who was sent by the Nazis to Buchenwald because of his Jewish ancestry and who became a favorite of many SS officers, even going so far as to serve as their psychoanalyst and counselor. The Doctor assisted in bizarre medical experiments on many of the camps inmates, and was alleged to have euthanized over a thousand people with phenol injections.

Extract below taken directly from the Guardian article.

Many found Dr. Katzen-Ellenbogen and the many lives he led incomprehensible. How could he alternately function as a gifted psychiatrist and as a murderous man of medicine? At the time, none understood that Katzen-Ellenbogen viewed humanity with multiple standards. He was an American eugenicist. Nor was he just any eugenicist. Katzen-Ellenbogen was a founding member of the prestigious but pro-Nazi Eugenics Research Association headquartered at the Carnegie Institution and the chief eugenicist of New Jersey under then-Governor Woodrow Wilson.