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Herta Oberheuser. 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 ...
Of the 50,000 total number of guards at all the Nazi camps, there were 5,000 women (approximately 10% of the workforce). They worked at the Auschwitz and Majdanek camps beginning in 1942. The following year, the Nazis began the conscription of women because of the shortage of guards.
Mary Scharlieb (1845–1930) was a pioneer British female physician, as she was the first woman to be elected to the honorary visiting staff of a hospital in the United Kingdom. Vilma Hugonnai (1847–1922) was the first female doctor in Hungary. She studied medicine in Zürich and received her degree in 1879.
August 22, 1860. March 20, 1940. Ploetz was a eugenicist known for coining the term racial hygiene (Rassenhygiene), a form of eugenics, and for promoting the concept in Germany. Robert Ritter. May 14, 1901. April 15, 1951. Ritter was appointed head of the Racial Hygiene and Demographic Biology Research Unit of Nazi Germany's Criminal Police.
This is a list of the first qualified female physician to practice in each country, where that is known. Many, if not all, countries have had female physicians since time immemorial; however, modern systems of qualification have often commenced as male only, whether de facto or de jure. This lists the first women physicians in modern countries.
Although the positive impact was greater in female patients — particularly those who were severely ill — the research revealed that both men and women under the care of female doctors ...
Story at a glance More women than ever are studying and practicing medicine across the United States — but a considerable majority of the country’s working doctors are still men. In recent ...
Magnus T. Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a Jewish German physician and sexologist, whose citizenship was later revoked by the Nazi government. [2] Hirschfeld was educated in philosophy, philology and medicine. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and World League for ...