{{Short description|German Nazi SS officer (1910–1949)}} {{more footnotes|date=January 2013}} '''Helmuth Vetter''' (21 March 1910 in Rastenberg – 2 February 1949) was an ''SS-Hauptsturmführer'' and a Nazi war criminal.

Vetter was a doctor at the Auschwitz extermination camp, appointed chief doctor by ''Reichsführer-SS'' Heinrich Himmler. He joined other doctors (such as Hans König, Heinz Thilo, and Fritz Klein) in the task of choosing employable Jews to operate the industrial machines and sending others to the gas chambers. He also carried medical experiments on prisoners, involving phenol injections <ref>Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments Paul Weindling page 76</ref> As paid retainer of IG Farben, Vetter would also deliberately infect prisoners in Auschwitz, Dachau and Gusen to carry out medical experiments.<ref>Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945 Paul Weindling, page 359</ref> After the war, Vetter was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death. He was hanged in the prison of Landsberg am Lech.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SS Camp Physicians - KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen |url=https://www.mauthausen-memorial.org/en/Gusen/The-Concentration-Camp-Gusen/The-SS/SS-Camp-Physicians |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.mauthausen-memorial.org |archive-date=2023-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124121839/https://www.mauthausen-memorial.org/en/Gusen/The-Concentration-Camp-Gusen/The-SS/SS-Camp-Physicians |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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== External links == * [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/gusenmed.html "Medical Experiments at KZ Guzen", Jewish Virtual Library]

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