Victims and survivors of Nazi human experiments : science and suffering in the Holocaust / Paul Weindling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weindling, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atrocities--History--20th century.

Atrocities.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Human experimentation in medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 the experiments, where they occurred, how many victims there were, and who they were, is analysed, as are hitherto under-researched aspects such as Nazi anatomy and executions. The experiments are also linked, more broadly, to major elements in the dynamic and fluid Nazi power structure and the implementation of racial policies. The approach is informed by social history from below, exploring both the rationales and motives of perpetrators, but assessing these critically in the light of victim narratives."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1: Exploring experiments

Part 1. Eugenics to experiments, 1933-1941

2: Nazifying medical research

3: On the slippery slope: from eugenics to experiments

4: Nazi psychiatry - euthanasia, research

5: Racial research

6: First SS experiments 1939-41

Part 2. Peak years 1942-1944

7: Prisoner of war experiments

8: Experiments and extermination

9: Infectious threats 1942-44

Part 3. Targetting victims

10: Psychiatric patients

11: Anatomical victims

12: Gypsies

13: Jews

14: Prisoners of war and forced labourers

Part 4. Experiments in perspective

15: Relentless research

16: Scale and structure

17: Resistance and sabotage.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441189301

1441189300

9781472579935

1472579933

9781474211185

1474211186

9781441195319

1441195319

OCLC:

899248931