Doctors Under Hitler

The chapter on Nazi medical experiments in Chalmers’ book is one of the most fascinating chapters because it examines the different types of techniques that the Nazi’s used to sterilize men and women. Chalmers explains that women were particularly subject to medical experiments because the Nazis were obsessed with destroying inferior races and wanted to perfect the art of sterilization so no more undesirable elements would be born (Ibid 123). However, both men and women were subject to Nazi medical experiments like medical injections, X-Rays, and chemicals, which resulted in burnt skin, abnormalities, and death. Among these experimentations many chemical companies, doctors, and University professors supported the experiments being done on

Gottfried, Ted, and Stephen Alcorn. Deniers of the Holocaust: who they are, what they do, why

(Weisle, 71.) This shows how they have to make themselves look good for the doctors or else they won't get a good review and die. Clearly, The dehumanization of being selected like livestock helps Hitler control the

The website provides insight into the treatment of Jewish pharmacists while the Nazi party ran Germany. Jewish pharmacists were just as qualified as non-Jews, and many of them owned their businesses outright. Nevertheless, because they were Jews and the Nazis were heavily concerned with eradicated and tormenting the Jews, Jewish pharmacists suffered as well. The specific time period that the article is concerned with is the mid 1930s in Germany. Apparently the Nazi influence and propaganda regarding Jewish pharmacies was negligible until Adolf Hitler came into power.

It is interesting to note that Nazis were cunning enough to choose locations that were far from the public eye because they probably knew to a certain degree that although the Nazi party had massive support, that could all go out the window if the German people found out cruel experiments and executions being conducted. Another thing to note is that it seems as though mentally disabled Germans were the guinea pigs for how the Nazis would experiment on and execute the Jews later on. Doctors weren't really needed at these institutions, they were only really there to maintain the illusion of a scientific and medical program. However they did have another task, which was to come up with reasons for the cause of their patients' deaths. They would send out letters to victims' families. It seems these Nazi doctors were very methodical in order to cover up what they were doing but it would turnout that weren't as clever as they thought they were. The families of the victims would notice inconsistencies with the official cause of death and later on public protests would cause Hitler to order the gas chambers be dismantled in August

Understanding the events of the Holocaust requires consideration of numerous socio-political and economic factors in interwar and WW2 Europe. One particularly important area of exploration is the role played by physicians working for the Reich. Examining their behavior, justifications for murder, and relationship to the state provides insight into the moral and ethical foundations of the society which allowed a genocide that ended in the death of millions. In the context of the concentration camps they abandoned both their humanity and their ethics as doctors to become murderers and torturers for state science. Multiple factors, including ideology, socialization, and psychological adaption allowed Nazi doctors to throw away the fact that

This is the first sign that shows how they separate those who can do things and those who can’t. Having that thought, he thinks out every action he does. “Dr. Mengle ordered all doctors to step forward… and asked those who had studied in a German university, who had a thorough knowledge of pathology and had practiced forensic medicine, to step forward” (Nyiszli,19). The doctors that are liked are immediately put into a separate group. After his arrival, he starts working on people who have arrived at the camp. Soon after that, he starts performing research and experiments. They consisted of “…research into the origin and causes of dual births…”, “…the search to discover the biological and pathological causes for the birth of dwarfs and giants” and “the study of the causes and treatment of a disease commonly called ‘dry gangrene of the face’” (Nyiszli, 31). This is the start of what helps Nyiszli gain trust with Dr.

This is ridiculous, because these men were evil. They couldn’t have been “brainwashed” because “some of the Paperclip scientists had worked in the U.S. before the war, as many Americans had worked in Germany,” (Swanson). They even so blatantly disregarded the Oath that two sociologists, Binding and Hoche, set out to eliminate the Hippocratic Oath altogether, arguing that people were valued based on their contributions to society, that a doctor’s focus should be utilitarian, and that the “quality of life” should be the determining factor in medical treatment (“Euthanasia in Nazi Germany”). No one instructed doctors to do this, it was on their own, caused by their own feelings of prejudice. In fact, this is directly opposite the Hippocratic Oath, which champions the importance of the individual, in that the value of each human life is concrete, and one shouldn’t ever have to prove their worth (“Euthanasia in Nazi Germany”). So it was dismissed, that which guides doctors and proves them to be

Many know the role of a doctor as someone who provides help for others when they are in need, but during the Holocaust one doctor was not known as someone who helped the people in need. Dr. Josef Mengele, who was a research scientist during the Holocaust, conducted many gruesome experiments on twins, kids, men, and women. Dr. Josef Mengele studied anthropology at the University of Munich in 1935, where he also earned his Ph.D. In January, 1937, Dr. Josef Mengele went to study at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene in Frankfurt. At the institute, Dr. Josef Mengele became the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, who was known for his research on twins. In the same year of 1937 Dr. Josef Mengele joined the Nazi party. The

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Josef Mengele was a Doctor and a Official from Germany he was know as the angel of death. He was born in march 16th 1911. Mengele was the eldest of three brothers and he was always a good student. In January of 1937 was assistant of doctor Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer. He was a scientist who studied genetics which had a great interest in twins. Mengele then wrote a thesis about Cleft lip and cleft palate, qualified very well which made Josef get a doctorate in medicine. Year later mengele married Irene Schönbein with whom she contracted her only son named Rolf. During the year 1937 and 1938 Mengele joined the Nazi party and also the SS. Some months after the Second World War in 1949 Mengele volunteered for the medical service of the Walffen-SS (They were the elite fighting body of the Schutzstaffel). Then sent a request for the service of the transfer to the concentration

“The Nazi Doctors,” by Robert Jay Lifton focuses more on the impact that science and medicine had on developing the Nazi practice of mass murder. Lifton Argues that the most dangerous part of medicalizing death was the belief that the doctors were killing Jews in order to heal the society. Lifton goes on to argue that the reason the race had deteriorated was due to the mixing with the Jews, he describes the jews to be somewhat a cancer of the society. Mentions that scientific racism began the marginalization of jews and once they were put in death and concentration camps doctors saw to a large portion of the killing.

The Nazi regime, according to Agamben, is the first instance in which politics and medicine have ever

Earlier issues of SHM include articles that are profoundly insistent upon the importance of ‘history from below’ in developing and constituting understandings of health and medicine. As these articles were primarily structured and written during the cultural and linguistic turn in historical analysis it is clear that they present arguments that aim to revise modernist approaches to the social history of medicine. Most of which are interested in the history of published medical texts or the views of the medical elite. The article by Liora Navon, ‘Beggars, Metaphors, and Stigma: A Missing Link in the Social History of Leprosy’ outlines the need for the adoption of a ‘history from below’ perspective in addressing understandings of leprosy in Thailand. Her article states that ‘the interviews conducted for this study with patients diagnosed before the 1950s and their offspring reveal that, unlike their portrayal in archival sources, manifestations of extremely negative or positive attitudes were quite rare.’ Similarly Peter Elmer’s review of Medicine and the Market in England and Its Colonies, c.1450-c. 1850, by Mark S. R. Jenner and Patrick Wallis argues that their work attributes a link between the creation of a medical marketplace with a ‘reorientation towards the role of the patient in medical transactions’. Found even within the title of the article ‘Speed in the Third Reich: Metamphetamine (Pervitin) Use and a Drug History From Below’ by Stephen Snelders and Toine Pieters,

Among the basic and most important human rights is the right to proper and quality health services. There are records of deadly diseases which could wipe out the entire civilization in the absence of competitive and proper health care services. Diseases such as Ebola and cancer have killed so many people. Therefore, to fight such deadly diseases, there is dire need to revisit the healthcare settings, policies, technology, medical advancement, and many other factors attached to the whole healthcare unit. However, modern healthcare has long overemphasized curative medicine and ignored preventive medicine and health encouragement. Nearly two decades ago in Germany, records from