Editing Horst Schumann (section)

==Medical career after the war==
While serving as a military doctor on the Western Front, he was captured by the Americans in January 1945. He was released from captivity in October 1945. In April 1946, he began to work as a sports doctor for the city of Gladbeck. An application for a license for a hunting gun led to his being identified in 1951 so the GDR issued an arrest warrant. According to his own statement, Schumann served as a ship’s doctor for three years and because he did not have a German passport, he applied for one in Japan in 1954 and received it under his own name. Schumann then fled, first to Egypt and eventually settled in Khartoum in the Sudan as head of a hospital. He was forced to flee from Sudan in 1962 after being recognized by an Auschwitz survivor. Then he went to Ghana, where he received the protection of the head of state, [[Kwame Nkrumah]].

In 1966, he was extradited from Ghana to West Germany where the trial against him was opened in Frankfurt on September 23<sup>rd</sup>, 1970. However, Schumann was released from prison on July 29<sup>th</sup>, 1972 due to his heart condition and generally deteriorating health. However, he did not die until May 5<sup>th</sup>, 1983; 11 years after he had been released. As Robert Jay Lifton has observed "...Schumann has great importance for us because of what he did – intense involvement in both direct medical killing and unusually brutal Auschwitz experiments – and what he was – an ordinary, but highly Nazified man and doctor..." (p. 284).
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