The Medical Experiments in Nazi Concentration Camps

2019 ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Bernard Kanovitch
Keyword(s):  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Medical Experiments

For the Victims of Pseudo-Medical Experiments

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (104) ◽  
pp. 646-647
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Second World War ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
World War ◽  
Central European ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
Second World

Twenty-five years after the second World War, the International Committee of the Red Cross is still dealing with claims for compensation from people living in certain Central European countries who were victims of pseudo-medical experiments in German concentration camps.

“In the Name of Humanity”: Nazi Doctors and Human Experiments in German Concentration Camps

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-252
Author(s):  
Daan de Leeuw
Keyword(s):  
Hippocratic Oath ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Human Experimentation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
Human Experiments ◽  
Nazi Doctors ◽  
Second World

Abstract During the Second World War over two hundred and fifty German doctors conducted medical experiments on human beings. Jurists and scholars have pondered ever since how doctors educated to heal could harm and even kill. Robert Jay Lifton has argued that psychological “doubling” could explain their crimes: their Faustian bargain with Nazism outweighed their Hippocratic Oath. Here the author argues, however, that Lifton’s theory does not apply to these Nazi doctors because there is no indication that they recognized ethical constraints against human experimentation. To explain how “healers became killers,” the author focuses on the broader historical aspects of their behavior.

For Victims of Pseudo-Medical Experiments

1971 ◽  
Vol 11 (125) ◽  
pp. 432-432
Keyword(s):  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
The Third ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
Assistant Director

The Neutral Commission appointed by the ICRC to decide on applications by Polish victims of pseudo-medical experiments in Nazi concentration camps during the Second War World met for the third time this year from 1 to 3 July 1971 at ICRC headquarters in Geneva. It consisted of Mr. W. Lenoir, President of the Neutral Commission and judge of the Geneva Court of Justice, Dr. S. Mutrux, assistant director of the Bel-Air psychiatric clinic of Geneva, and Dr. P. Magnenat, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and assistant at the Nestlé Hospital university clinic at Lausanne.

On Behalf of Victims of Pseudo-Medical Experiments Red Cross Action

1973 ◽  
Vol 13 (142) ◽  
pp. 3-21
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
The Government ◽  
Polish Government ◽  
Second World

On 16 November 1972, an agreement on compensation for the Polish victims of pseudo-medical experiments carried out in Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War was signed by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of the Polish People's Republic. In accordance with this agreement, which marks the end of the arrangement under which the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has paid more than DM 40 million to 1,357 Polish victims through the ICRC since 1961, the Federal Republic of Germany will pay an additional DM 100 million to the Polish Government.

For Victims of Pseudo-Medical Experiments

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (93) ◽  
pp. 641-641
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

The Commission of neutral experts appointed by the International Committee of the Red Cross to examine cases of victims of pseudo-medical experiments practised in concentration camps under the Nazi regime, to whom the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany is prepared to pay indemnities, again met at ICRC headquarters in Geneva on November 8 and 9. The Chairman was Mr. William Lenoir, Judge at the Geneva Court of Justice. He was assisted by Professor Pierre Magnenat, assistant doctor at the University Clinic of the Nestlé Hospital in Lausanne and by Dr. Sylvain Mutrux, Deputy Medical Director of the University Psychiatric Clinic of Bel-Air in Geneva. The Hungarian Red Cross was represented by Mrs. Sandor Böde, Dr. Pal Bacs and Mr. Imre Pasztor, whilst Dr. E. Gotz had been sent by the Red Cross of the German Federal Republic.

For Victims of pseudo-medical experiments

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (116) ◽  
pp. 640-640
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
Set Up

The Neutral Commission set up by the ICRC to make assessments of the claims submitted by victims of pseudo-medical experiments made on former detainees of German concentration camps now living in Poland met from 30 September to 3 October 1970 at the headquarters of the ICRC in Geneva. Compensation totalling the sum of DM 3,110,000.—was allocated to 113 persons, whose claims were found to be valid. This brings the total paid by the Federal Republic of Germany, as a result of the Neutral Commission's decisions, to Polish victims of pseudo-medical experiments to DM 26,430,000.—.

For Victims of pseudo-medical experiments

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (110) ◽  
pp. 284-285
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
Compensation Claims ◽  
Second World

Following a mission carried out in December 1969 by Dr. J.-F. de Rougemont, accompanied by Mr. J.-P. Maunoir, assistant director and Miss L. Simonius, delegate, in the clinics of the Warsaw and Gdansk Academies of Medicine and at the headquarters of the Polish Red Cross in the capital, new compensation claims for Polish victims of pseudo-medical experiments in Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War were laid before the Neutral Arbitration Commission.

Roma and Sinti as Homo Sacer

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Leeb
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Defense Counsel ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
University Professor ◽  
Post War

This chapter analyzes the case of the Austrian University Professor Beiglböck who led lethal medical experiments on Roma and Sinti in the Dachau concentration camp during the NS regime. It traces the emergence of the “gypsy” as the paradigmatic figure of what Giorgio Agamben termed homo sacer—from being declared as vogelfrei in the fifteenth century to being exposed to death in the concentration camps of the Nazis. It also explains the ways in which Beiglböck and his defense counsel reiterated the racist NS branding of Roma and Sinti as “gypsies” as a means to exonerate Beiglböck from guilt and responsibility, which underlines how NS ideology continued to be present in the post-war trials. It lets surviving witnesses of the experiments speak about the horrors of the deadly experiments.

For victims of pseudo-medical experiments

1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (79) ◽  
pp. 538-538
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
The Government

The Neutral Commission of Experts appointed by the International Committee to examine the cases of victims of pseudomedical experiments in concentration camps under the Nazi regime, to whom the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany is prepared to pay indemnity, again met at ICRC headquarters on September 15 and 16. The meeting was chaired by Mr. William Lenoir, a judge of the Geneva Court of Justice, and was attended by Dr. Alex Muller, Professor at the Geneva University Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Sylvain Mutrux, Assistant Medical Director of the Bel-Air psychiatric clinic, Mrs. Böde, Dr. Bàcs and Mr. Pàsztor, representing the Hungarian Red Cross and Dr. Götz, representing the Red Cross in the Federal Republic of Germany.

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