Associate Professor of German
Department of Modern Langs & Cultures
Baylor University
Division of German and Russian Dept of Modern Languages & Cultures Baylor University Waco TX USA 76798-7391
My criminal biography "SS-Doctor Franz Lucas Before, During, and After the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-1965)" renders an account of Lucas’s complicity not only in Auschwitz, but also in Mauthausen, Stutthof, Ravensbrück, and Sachsenhausen by bringing university and military documents, attorney correspondence, and interrogation transcripts to bear on Lucas’s (pre-)trial statements. I analyze the arguments of judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys while attending to the statements of witnesses inside and outside the courtroom. I identify the deception, self-protection, and opportunism in Lucas’s own statements from the beginning of his association with the SA, SS and NSDAP in the 1930s to his acquittal in 1970 and beyond. Finally, without discounting his reputation as a "white raven" contrasted to diabolical physicians the like of Josef Mengele or Adolf Winkelmann, I point out the self-serving interest of the testimony offered on his behalf.
Assistant & Associate Professor of German, Anderson University (Indiana)
Wisely, Andrew. Arthur Schnitzler and the Discourse of Honor and Dueling (New York: Peter Lang, 1996)
Wisely, Andrew. Arthur Schnitzler and Twentieth-Century Criticism (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004)
“Baretzki’s Accusation, Lucas’s Confession, and Testimony in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies (forthcoming).
“Desk-Murderers or Dr. Lucas: Superfluity and Culpability in Hannah Arendt’s ‘Auschwitz on Trial.’” Totalitarianism and Liberty: Hannah Arendt in the 21st Century. Gerhard Besier et al, eds. Cracow: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2008. 363-379.
http://www.baylor.edu/german/doc.php/274983.pdf
Holocaust perpetrators (esp. SS physicians) and survivor witnesses; post-war justice, trials; nature of testimony; criminal biography