Mauthausen-Studien 19: Lisa Rettl und Peter Pirker

In this comprehensively edited new edition of the highly topical biography of SS doctor Sigbert Ramsauer, the two contemporary historians Lisa Rettl and Peter Pirker follow a trail that leads through the war of extermination in Poland and the USSR to various concentration camps in the German Reich and finally to the Carinthian concentration camp on the Loibl Pass. A trail that ultimately reveals a deeply Austrian history: In the treatment of Nazi perpetrators and their victims, in the far-reaching concealment, in the broad social support for war criminals and ultimately also in the inadequate prosecution.

With an extraordinary wealth of sources and numerous sources and photographs of French prisoners of the Loibl concentration camp, researched for the new edition and edited in German for the first time, Rettl and Pirker not only trace Ramsauer's life, but also impressively outline the British military court trial of 1947 - Carinthia's largest war crimes trial - in this work on medical, judicial, criminal and life history.

The book is available in bookshops and on the website of new academic press.