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.

• List of figuresNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsPART ONE: Contexts 1. Introduction: a new historiography of the Nazi medicalexperiments and coerced researchPAUL WEINDLING2. The use and abuse of medical research ethics: the GermanRichtlinien/guidelines for human subject research as aninstrument for the protection of research subjects –and of medical science, ca. 1931–1961/64VOLKER ROELCKE3. The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists andresearch in the context of eugenics and "euthanasia"HANS-WALTER SCHMUHLPART TWO: Clinics and the sciences4. Research on the boundary between life and death: coerciveexperiments on pregnant women and their foetuses duringNational SocialismGABRIELE CZARNOWSKI AND SABINE HILDEBRANDT5. August Hirt and the supply of corpses at the AnatomicalInstitute of the Reichsuniversität Strassburg (1941–1944)RAPHAEL TOLEDANO6. Nazi anthropology and the taking of face masks: face anddeath masks in the anthropological collection of theNatural History Museum, ViennaMARGIT BERNER7. Beyond Spiegelgrund and Berkatit: human experimentationand coerced research at the Vienna School of Medicine,1939 to 1945HERWIG CZECH8. Murdering the sick in the name of progress? The Heidelbergpsychiatrist cart Schneider as a brain researcher and‘therapeutic idealist’MAIKE ROTZOLL AND GERRIT HOHENDORF9. Der Kinderfachabteilung vorzuschlagen: the selection and eliminationof children at the Youth Psychiatric Clinic Loben (1941–45)KAMILA UZARCZYKPART THREE: Concentration camps10. Children as victims of medical experiments in concentrationcampsASTRID LEY11. The story of how the Ravensbrück "Rabbits" were capturedin photosALEKSANDRA LOEWENAU12. Rascher and the "Russians": human experimentation on Sovietprisoners in Dachau – a new perspectiveNICHOLA FARRON13. Heißmeyer’s forgotten victims: tuberculosis experiments onadults in Neuengamme 1944–45ANNA VON VILLIEZPART FOUR: Legacies14. From witness to indictee: Eugen Haagen and his court hearingsfrom the Nuremberg Medical Trial (1946–47) to the StruthofMedical Trials (1952–54)CHRISTIAN BONAH AND FLORIAN SCHMALTZ15. Informed testimonies: physicians’ accounts of Nazi medicalexperiments in the context of early Czechoslovak war crimesinvestigations, 1945–48MICHAL V. SIMUNEK16. Post-war legacies, 1945–2015: victims, bodies, and brain tissues 000PAUL WEINDLINGIndex