In this history of medicine and the medical profession in the Third Reich, Michael Kater examines the career patterns, educational training, professional organization, and political socialization of German physicians under Hitler. His discussion ranges widely, from doctors who participated in Nazi atrocities, to those who actively resisted the regime's perversion of healing, to the vast majority whose ideology and behavior fell somewhere between the two extremes. He also takes a chilling look at the post-Hitler medical establishment's problematic relationship to the Nazi past.
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Kater's important book deserves close attention from historians of medicine and German historians alike.
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[Kater] sheds new light on the motives of the perpetrators of medical criminality.
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[W]e are once more profoundly in his debt for scouring the archives for invaluable new documentation. His analysis is equally admirable.
American Historical Review
An important book.
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A detailed history of the German medical establishment under Hitler that explores the psychological, ethical, and political consequences brought about by its perverse actions.
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When the Third Reich was ushered in on January 30, 1933, it inherited a surplus of physicians from the republican era. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
race hygienics, licensure period, nicht misshandeln, panel funds, panel practice, medicalized killing, female medical students, socialist physicians, race legislation, medical crimes, fund physicians, panel physicians, women medical students, health leadership, full chair, women physicians, political takeover, health bureaucracy, medical scholars, medical teachers, lay healers, race hygiene, summer semester Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third Reich, World War, Gerhard Wagner, United States, Hitler Youth, Weimar Republic, New York, German Jews, National Socialism, Leonardo Conti, West German, Brown Shirts, East Prussia, Munich University, New German Healing, Kurt Klare, Rudolf Hess, Black Shirts, Final Victory, Old Fighter, Ernst Bach, Fritz Lenz, Great Depression, Great War, Jewish Question New!
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When the Third Reich was ushered in on January 30, 1933, it inherited a surplus of physicians from the republican era. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
race hygienics, licensure period, nicht misshandeln, panel funds, panel practice, medicalized killing, female medical students, socialist physicians, race legislation, medical crimes, fund physicians, panel physicians, women medical students, health leadership, full chair, women physicians, political takeover, health bureaucracy, medical scholars, medical teachers, lay healers, race hygiene, summer semester Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third Reich, World War, Gerhard Wagner, United States, Hitler Youth, Weimar Republic, New York, German Jews, National Socialism, Leonardo Conti, West German, Brown Shirts, East Prussia, Munich University, New German Healing, Kurt Klare, Rudolf Hess, Black Shirts, Final Victory, Old Fighter, Ernst Bach, Fritz Lenz, Great Depression, Great War, Jewish Question New!
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- Nazi Party by Kater on 15 pages
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler on 7 pages
- The Pillar of Fire, Volume 2 by Karl Stern in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Republic of Silence by A. J. Liebling in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany by Peter D. Stachura in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany (Publications of the German Historical Institute) by Manfred Berg on 9 pages
- Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits by Michael H. Kater on 4 pages
- Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love by Yehuda Koren in Front Matter, page 6, and Back Matter
- The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich by Michael H. Kater in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation by George J. Annas on page 38, page 262, and page 263
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