From Clinic to Concentration Camp

Paul Weindling is Research Professor in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research covers evolution and society, public health, and human experimentation post-1800. He has especial interests in eugenics, human experiments, corporate philanthropies in the field of international health, and medical refugees from Nazi Germany. He has published on victims and survivors of Nazi experiments and develops research on the thousands of victims and their body parts.

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PART ONE: Contexts



1. Introduction: a new historiography of the Nazi medical



experiments and coerced research



PAUL WEINDLING



2. The use and abuse of medical research ethics: the German



Richtlinien/guidelines for human subject research as an



instrument for the protection of research subjects –



and of medical science, ca. 1931–1961/64



VOLKER ROELCKE



3. The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists and



research in the context of eugenics and "euthanasia"



HANS-WALTER SCHMUHL



PART TWO: Clinics and the sciences



4. Research on the boundary between life and death: coercive



experiments on pregnant women and their foetuses during



National Socialism



GABRIELE CZARNOWSKI AND SABINE HILDEBRANDT



5. August Hirt and the supply of corpses at the Anatomical



Institute of the Reichsuniversität Strassburg (1941–1944)



RAPHAEL TOLEDANO



6. Nazi anthropology and the taking of face masks: face and



death masks in the anthropological collection of the



Natural History Museum, Vienna



MARGIT BERNER



7. Beyond Spiegelgrund and Berkatit: human experimentation



and coerced research at the Vienna School of Medicine,



1939 to 1945



HERWIG CZECH



8. Murdering the sick in the name of progress? The Heidelberg



psychiatrist cart Schneider as a brain researcher and



‘therapeutic idealist’



MAIKE ROTZOLL AND GERRIT HOHENDORF



9. Der Kinderfachabteilung vorzuschlagen: the selection and elimination



of children at the Youth Psychiatric Clinic Loben (1941–45)



KAMILA UZARCZYK



PART THREE: Concentration camps



10. Children as victims of medical experiments in concentration



camps



ASTRID LEY



11. The story of how the Ravensbrück "Rabbits" were captured



in photos



ALEKSANDRA LOEWENAU



12. Rascher and the "Russians": human experimentation on Soviet



prisoners in Dachau – a new perspective



NICHOLA FARRON



13. Heißmeyer’s forgotten victims: tuberculosis experiments on



adults in Neuengamme 1944–45



ANNA VON VILLIEZ



PART FOUR: Legacies



14. From witness to indictee: Eugen Haagen and his court hearings



from the Nuremberg Medical Trial (1946–47) to the Struthof



Medical Trials (1952–54)



CHRISTIAN BONAH AND FLORIAN SCHMALTZ



15. Informed testimonies: physicians’ accounts of Nazi medical



experiments in the context of early Czechoslovak war crimes



investigations, 1945–48



MICHAL V. SIMUNEK



16. Post-war legacies, 1945–2015: victims, bodies, and brain tissues 000



PAUL WEINDLING



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