Doctors' group publishes archive of doctors registered in Nazi era

Breaking through the postwar coverup of Nazi doctors in Germany.

When a dictatorial regime collapses the former power elite, the perpetrators, helpers and collaborators of the old regime do not vanish but, as history has repeatedly shown, manage to survive quite agreeably. This survival is made the more likely by the fact that many of them are, or make themselves, irreplaceable and indispensable as professionals. Such was the situation in Germany after the l...

Doctors of Infamy; the Story of the Nazi Medical Crimes

How often have I thought to look at the patient's antecubital spaces to check on his story of never having had any "blood treatment"? Yet, the "scar at the bend of the elbow from faulty arsenical injections" may be more objective than the patient's memory. Just as we are beginning to think we can answer all the questions, a woman comes in because of inflammation of the right hand (she is right-...

Physicians and torture: lessons from the Nazi doctors

How is it possible? What are the personal, professional and political contexts that allow physicians to use their skills to torture and kill rather than heal? What are the psychological characteristics and the social, cultural and political factors that predispose physicians to participate in human rights abuses? What can be done to recognize at-risk situations and attempt to provide corrective...

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors

Psychiatry in the Nazi era.

OBJECTIVES To update Canadian psychiatrists on recent information from newly discovered Berlin archives about the actions of physicians, especially psychiatrists, during the era of National Socialism in Germany and to encourage introspection about the role of the medical profession, its relationship with government, and its vulnerability to manipulation by ideology and economic pressures. MET...