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Killing doctor. Trained at Hadamar and Sonnenstein 
Arrested Ludwigshafen, January 1947
Admitted he was executioner
Joined SA 1939
Joined Nazi Party August 1938

Klee relates that Dr. Gorgass' mother was in an institution,
and that it was possible that the Dr. might, in fact, have had
to one day gas her as well as his other victims.

See Klee, Ernst. "Turning the tap on was no big deal" - The
gassing doctors during the Nazi period and afterwards, Dachau
Review 2, History of Nazi Concentration Camps, Studies,
Reports, Documents, Volume 2. edited by Wolfgang Benz and
Barbara Distel, published for the Comite International de
Dachau, Brussles. Verlag Dachauer Hefte, Alte Roemerstrasse
75, 8060 Dachau. pp 46-66

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