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BIOGRAPHY Gerstein completed his first degree, in Engineering , in 1931 . While studying he was, like all male members of the Gerstein family, a member of the Corps Teutonia Marburg . In 1933 he became a mining inspector for the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi) government and joined the Nazi party. As a committed protestant and member of the CVJM he came into conflict with the Nazi government. He was arrested for the first time on the 4th September 1936 , held in protective custody for five weeks, and expelled from the Nazi party. He was arrested a second time in July 1938 but released 6 weeks later because no charges could be found against him. On the 4th of September 1937 he started studying Medicine at the University Of Tubingen . In early 1941 he joined the SS , and rose to become Head of Technical Disinfection Services, liaising with Odilo Globocnik and Christian Wirth on technical aspects of mass murder in the Extermination Camps . BOOKS AND FILMS A semi-fictional movie about his emotional search for Christian values and ultimate decision to betray the SS by attempting to expose the Holocaust through informing the Catholic Church, '' Amen '', was released in 2002 , starring Ulrich Tukur as Kurt Gerstein and directed by Costa-Gavras . William T. Vollmann 's Europe Central, the National Book Award fiction winner for 2005, has a 55-page segment, entitled "Clean Hands," which relates Gerstein's story. EXTERNAL LINKS
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