Painful and sometimes deadly experiments which Nazi doctors carried out on children

Coerced human experiments are among the most disturbing forms of ethical violations and criminality in medicine under National Socialism. Until 2016, there was no evidence‐based analysis concerning numbers of victims and the type of experiments. A reference resource on Victims of Biomedical Research...

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Published in:Acta Paediatrica Vol. 111; no. 9; pp. 1664 - 1669
Main Author: Weindling, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Norway Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.09.2022
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subjects:
Biomedical Research
Child
coerced research
Criminality
Germany
history
History, 20th Century
Holocaust - history
Humans
Medical research
Morals
National Socialism - history
Nazi paediatrics
Review
Germany
coerced research
Nazi paediatrics
history
ISSN:0803-5253, 1651-2227, 1651-2227
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Summary:Coerced human experiments are among the most disturbing forms of ethical violations and criminality in medicine under National Socialism. Until 2016, there was no evidence‐based analysis concerning numbers of victims and the type of experiments. A reference resource on Victims of Biomedical Research under NS. Collaborative Database of Medical Victims currently covers 28 655 victims who were subjected to 359 different experiments by the Nazis during World War Two. Drawing on this resource, this paper focuses on research on children. Finally, the narrow focus on the experiments, highlighting scientific methodology but disregarding the killing procedures of the Holocaust, is critically analysed.
Bibliography:Funding information
The Database was at various stages funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the Conference for Jewish Material Claims against Germany, and the Max Planck Society. Additional archival research was funded by the Alexander von Humboldt‐Stiftung
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ISSN:0803-5253
1651-2227
1651-2227
DOI:10.1111/apa.16310