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Online-Ressource (337 p)
ISBN:
9781441179906
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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 the Holocaust. Paul Weindling bases this study on the reconstruction of a victim group through individual victims' life histories, and by weaving the victims' experiences collectively together in terms of different groupings, especially gender, ethnicity and religion, age, and nationality. The timing of
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Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PREFACE; Researching victims; Note on names and identities; CHAPTER ONE Exploring experiments; Concealed depths; Experiments as exploitation; Nameless victims; Experiments as experience; The meaning of 'an experiment'; PART ONE Eugenics to experiments, 1933 to 1941; CHAPTER TWO Nazifying medical research; The experimental impulse; Man and beast; The new German healing; Nazifying medical research; CHAPTER THREE On the slippery slope: From eugenics to experiments
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Sterilization as a research opportunityReproductive experiments; Hormones and reproductive research; The 'Rhineland Bastards'; SS research and camp castrations; CHAPTER FOUR Nazi psychiatry - 'euthanasia' research; Of apes and men; Harvesting brains; CHAPTER FIVE Racial research; An unstable science; Racial research; Sinti and Roma studies; Researching POWs; Researching Jews; Race and infection; CHAPTER SIX First SS experiments, 1939 to 1941; SS medicine; Historical roots; Blood sampling; Ancestral research; A 'New German Healing'; The SS Hippocrates; A faltering advance
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Comparing tuberculosis therapiesCHAPTER SEVEN Prisoner of war experiments; Shoe testing; Crete; PART TWO Peak years, 1942 to 1944; CHAPTER EIGHT Experiments and extermination; Himmler's medical vision; SS command and organization; Nutrition; Deadly medicines; CHAPTER NINE Wartime expansion; Rascher and rapid descent; Rascher and freezing experiments; Wound infection; The Ravensbrück Rabbits; The Dachau final series; CHAPTER TEN Infectious threats, 1942 to 1944; Fleckfieber; The Dachau malaria experiments; IG pharmaceuticals: Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Mauthausen; Japanese incentives
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PART THREE Targetting victimsCHAPTER ELEVEN Psychiatric patients; Selecting victims; Research children; At the Spiegelgrund, Vienna; Hereditary pathology; CHAPTER TWELVE Anatomical victims; A glut of bodies; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Gypsies; Research for destruction; Racial immunology; Gypsy twins; Seawater drinking and water purification; From live typhus vaccine to yellow fever; Nerve gas; Sterilization; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Jews; Schumann and X-ray sterilization; Sealing wombs; Goebel and Schering; Dr Samuel; Jewish skeletons; Jewish twins; Blood research; Infectious diseases
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Malingering and feigned woundsCHAPTER FIFTEEN Prisoners of war and forced labour; Racial types; 'Russian' POWs; Forced labour; Reproductive research; PART FOUR Experiments inperspective; CHAPTER SIXTEEN Relentless research; To the bitter end; Staunching blood; Hallucinogenics; Curing homosexuals; Nerve gas; Jewish children; The City of Mothers; Ravensbrück sterilization; Chemical defences; Buchenwald hygiene; Forced labour; Psychiatry; Cover up; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The structure of coerced research; Victim cohorts; Concentration camp locations; Perpetrators; Funding; Conducting research
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Selection of victims
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441195319
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441179906
Additional Edition:
Print version Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments : Science and Suffering in the Holocaust
Language:
English
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