1st Edition
From Clinic to Concentration Camp Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933-1945
Part One: Contexts
1. Introduction: A New Historiography of the Nazi Medical Experiments and Coerced Research
[Paul Weindling]
2. The use and abuse of medical research ethics: The German Richtlinien / guidelines for human subject research as an instrument for the protection of research subjects – and of medical science, ca. 1931 – 1961/64
[Volker Roelcke]
3. The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists and Research in the Context of Eugenics and "Euthanasia"
[Hans-Walter Schmuhl]
Part Two: Clinics and the Sciences
4. Research on the Boundary between Life and Death: Coercive Experiments on Pregnant Women and their Foetuses during National Socialism
[Gabriele Czarnowski and Sabine Hildebrandt]
5. August Hirt and the supply of corpses at the Anatomical Institute of the Reichsuniversität Strassburg (1941–1944)
[Raphael Toledano]
6. Nazi Anthropology and the Taking of Face Masks. Face and Death Masks in the Anthropological Collection of the Natural History Museum, Vienna
[Margit Berner]
7. Beyond Spiegelgrund and Berkatit: Human Experimentation and Coerced Research at the Vienna School of Medicine, 1939 to 1945
[Herwig Czech]
8. Murdering the Sick in the Name of Progress? The Heidelberg Psychiatrist Cart Schneider as a Brain Researcher and ‘Therapeutic Idealist’
[Maike Rotzoll and Gerrit Hohendorf]
9. Der Kinderfachabteilung vorzuschlagen: The selection and elimination of children at the Youth Psychiatric Clinic Loben (1941-1945)
[Kamila Uzarczyk]
Part Three: Concentration Camps
10. Children as Victims of Medical Experiments in Concentration Camps
[Astrid Ley]
11. The story of how the Ravensbrück "Rabbits" were captured in photos
[Aleksandra Loewenau]
12. Rascher and the "Russians": Human Experimentation on Soviet Prisoners in Dachau – A New Perspective
[Nichola Farron]
13. Heißmeyer’s forgotten victims. Tuberculosis experiments on adults in Neuengamme 1944-1945
[Anna von Villiez]
Part Four: Legacies
14. From Witness to Indictee: Eugen Haagen and his Court Hearings from the Nuremberg Medical Trial (1946-47) to the Struthof Medical Trials (1952-1954)
[Christian Bonah and Florian Schmaltz]
15. Informed Testimonies: Physicians’ Accounts of Nazi Medical Experiments in the Context of Early Czechoslovak War Crimes Investigations, 1945–1948
[Michal V. Simunek]
16. Post-war Legacies, 1945-2015: Victims, Bodies, and Brain Tissues
[Paul Weindling]
Biography
Paul Weindling is Research Professor in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research covers evolution and society, public health, and human experimentation post-1800. He has especial interests in eugenics, human experiments, corporate philanthropies in the field of international health, and medical refugees from Nazi Germany. He has published on victims and survivors of Nazi experiments and develops research on the thousands of victims and their body parts.
