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The Nazi Doctors is composed of three parts. In the first part the book describes in detail the four stages that took place before the Holocaust. Starting with coercive sterilization, proceeding to the killing of children and then adults; medical reasonings were used to justify the actions of Nazi doctors.
[9] [10] [11] In comparison, only about 10% of the general population became Nazi Party members by 1945. [12] In addition, over 7% of German doctors became members of the Nazi SS, compared to less than 1% of the general population. [13] While most of these doctors were physicians, some held doctorates (PhDs) in biology, anthropology, or
Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 – 24 January 1978) was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. [1] For her role in the Holocaust, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Doctors' Trial, but served only five years of her sentence. A ...
Sigmund Rascher (12 February 1909 – 26 April 1945) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor. He conducted deadly experiments on humans pertaining to high altitude, freezing and blood coagulation under the patronage of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, to whom his wife Karoline "Nini" Diehl had direct connections. When police investigations ...
SS doctors, in particular, were marked as war criminals due to the wide range of human medical experimentation which had been conducted during World War II as well as the role SS doctors had played in the gas chamber selections of the Holocaust. [18] Later charges were brought against SS intellectuals and SS physicians by the German state. [19]
The National Socialist German Doctors' League was founded by the Nazi Party on August 3, 1929 [2] on the initiative of the doctor and publisher Ludwig Liebl . He was also the first chairman, with his tenure lasting three years. The NSDÄB's self-image was not that of a representative body, but of a combat organisation.
Doctors need to know that history to understand their own moral fallibility, Hildebrandt said. Physicians in Nazi Germany "still thought they were doing the right thing," she said, even as they ...
Claus Karl Schilling (5 July 1871 – 28 May 1946), also recorded as Klaus Schilling, was a German tropical medicine specialist who participated in the Nazi human experiments at the Dachau concentration camp during World War II.