Representing Nazi crimes in post-Second World War life writing

The Nazi war on cancer

In this pathbreaking and courageous study, Robert N Proctor not only tells a fascinating story but also makes an important historiographical critique. The horrors of Nazi science have been documented with almost missionary zeal over the years, he observes, leading to a one-dimensional portrayal of Nazi Germany as an intellectual backwater and Nazi science as quackery. In the process, many notab...

Typhus Fever in the Second World War.

Linked Death - representing, publishing, and using Second World War death records as Linked Open Data

War history of the Second World War (WW2), humankind’s largest disaster, is of great interest to both laymen and researchers. Most of us have ancestors and relatives who participated in the war, and in the worst case got killed. Researchers are eager to find out what actually happened then, and even more importantly why, so that future wars could perhaps be prevented. The darkest data of war hi...

A Today Victim of Second World War.

Emergency medicine as a medical specialty has to deal with all kind of emergency situations, from medical to post traumatic acute eyents and from new born to the elderly persons, but also with particular situations like explosions. In Romania nowadays these are accidental explosions and rare like frequency, but may be dramatic due to numbers of victims and multisystem injury that may occur. We ...

Nuclear Weapons and the Second World War

Since the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons have captured the attention of social scientists and the public alike. Some argue that the world benefits from nuclear weapons, claiming that they prevent war. Skeptics do not share this view and worry that nuclear weapons will only intensify conflict. Unfortunately, most theories about the benefits of nuclear weapons await judge...