Das SS-Ahnenerbe und die »Straßburger Schädelsammlung« - Fritz Bauers letzter Fall.

»>SS-Ahnenerbe< and="" the="" strasbourg="" skull="" collection="" -="" fritz="" bauer's="" last="" case«="" in="" august="" 1943,="" the="" anatomist="" august="" hirt="" murdered="" 86="" people="" at="" the="" natzweiler="" concentration="" camp.="" he="" wanted="" to="" display="" their="" skeletons="" in="" a="" museum="" in="" strasbourg="" in="" order="" to="" demonstrate="" to="" its="" visitors="" the="" inferiority="" of="" the="" »jewish="" race«="" from="" a="" national="" socialist="" viewpoint.="" this="" was="" the="" testimony="" offered="" by="" one="" of="" hirt's="" forced="" labourers="" at="" the="" nuremberg="" doctors'="" trial.="" since="" then="" hirt,="" who="" died="" in="" 1945,="" has="" been="" seen="" as="" the="" originator="" and="" prospective="" beneficiary="" of="" this="" brutal="" crime.="" when="" the="" historian="" michael="" kater="" raised="" his="" doubts="" about="" the="" motive="" and="" those="" involved="" with="" the="" hesse="" chief="" public="" prosecutor,="" fritz="" bauer,="" the="" legendary="" »nazi="" hunter«="" started="" to="" investigate.="" bauer="" died,="" however,="" and="" none="" of="" the="" accused="" were="" ever="" imprisoned.="" now,="" on="" the="" basis="" of="" in="" part="" previously="" unknown="" sources,="" this="" book="" records="" the="" course="" of="" the="" crime.="" the="" biographies="" and="" motives="" of="" the="" perpetrators,="" their="" helpers="" and="" witnesses="" are="" painstakingly="" detailed.="" the="" suspicion="" that="" fritz="" bauer="" held="" during="" his="" last="" case="" becomes="" more="" solid.="" furthermore,="" using="" a="" wide="" range="" of="" sources,="" the="" book="" shows="" that="" the="" motive="" behind="" this="" inhuman="" nazi="" crime="" was="" in="" fact="" far="" more="" cynical="" and="" barbarous="" than="" originally="" thought.="" it="" identifies="" further="" perpetrators="" and="" the="" actual="" purpose="" of="" the="">