Victims and survivors of Nazi human experiments : science and suffering in the Holocaust / Paul Weindling

"While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians. This book seeks to remedy the marginalisation, and to place the experiments in the context of the broad history of National Socialism and t...

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Main Authors:Weindling, Paul (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:London ; New Delhi ; New York ; Sydney : Bloomsbury, 2015
Series:History / Bloomsbury Academic
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
1: Exploring experimentsPart 1. Eugenics to experiments, 1933-1941
2: Nazifying medical research
3: On the slippery slope: from eugenics to experiments
4: Nazi psychiatry - euthanasia, research
5: Racial research
6: First SS experiments 1939-41
Part 2. Peak years 1942-1944
7: Prisoner of war experiments
8: Experiments and extermination
9: Infectious threats 1942-44
Part 3. Targetting victims
10: Psychiatric patients
11: Anatomical victims
12: Gypsies
13: Jews
14: Prisoners of war and forced labourers
Part 4. Experiments in perspective
15: Relentless research
16: Scale and structure
17: Resistance and sabotage.