Talk:Victor Capesius

Penniless? Really?
I just struck out this phrase:


 * Capesius lived the remainder of his years penniless and was a clerk for his wife's beauty shop.

First, it makes little sense. If his wife owned the shop, was he not using the money? Were they estranged? On the other hand, this book review indicates that quite the opposite was true:

When Schlesak met Capesius in Göppingen, Germany, in 1978, he owned a pharmacy and a cosmetics shop, and lived in a swanky neighborhood. Where did he get the money? He denied theft, but witnesses said Capesius would go though arrivals‘ abandoned bags and had a room at the Auschwitz pharmacy containing suitcases of dentures, and even cut out jaws with gold teeth.

From: http://www.ajwnews.com/archives/12745

Bazuz (talk) 13:04, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah right, he was a pharmacist and started over after the war. With this being in demand he earned a little fortune. That he used Jewish gold teeth for this sound like Holocaust lore. --197.229.149.144 (talk) 17:15, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Only two and a half years
If Capesius was arrested in December 1959 and "remained in custody" until the court proceeding which resulted in a nine year sentence, then was released in 1968 - why is this described as "served only two and a half years"? It's a near-universal practise that pretrial detention is subtracted from prison time to be served. The time period from arrest to release works out to around nine years. There seems to be nothing at all remarkable about this that warrants the "only", unless there's some fact we haven't been told here.2A02:AA1:100D:CA94:F544:9C8D:C8CC:DE63 (talk) 12:11, 5 April 2021 (UTC)