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By 1942, more than half of all German physicians had become Nazi Party members. [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]
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Doctors - notable "Nazi doctors" are covered at: List of Nazi doctors; SS personnel - notable people within the ranks are covered at: List of SS personnel (Nazis by default) For a list of the main leaders and most important party figures see: List of Nazi Party leaders and officials. Overview A–E F–K L–R S–Z
Eduard Wirths (4 September 1909 – 20 September 1945) was the chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Thus, Wirths had formal responsibility for everything undertaken by the nearly twenty SS doctors (including Josef Mengele, Horst Schumann and Carl Clauberg) who worked in the medical sections of Auschwitz between 1942 and 1945.
In some cases terms closely related to doctors in the Nazi era have fallen out of favor or there are active lobbying efforts to remove the original name from use. In other cases their use in the medical literature is sometimes presented with a caveat or footnote. The declining use of the Nazi-era eponyms has itself been tracked in the ...
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.
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
Eisele moved in the circles of former Nazi scientists in Egypt, after a German extradition request had been rejected. The Mossad tried to assassinate Eisele with a mail bomb on 25 September 1963. However, the bomb detonated early, instead killing a postal worker. Eisele died on 3 May 1967 and was buried in the small German cemetery in grave No. 99.