Scientists who acceded to the demands and offers of the government of Nazi Germany.
Keywords: eugenics; euthanasia; race hygiene; human experiments; racism
Nazi Scientists
Benno Müller‐Hill, Institute of Genetics, Cologne, Germany
Published online: September 2006
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005610
| References | |
| book Alexander L (1945) M887-Film 17. Washington DC: National Archives. | |
| book Friedlander H (1995) The Origins of Nazi Genocide. From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. | |
| Goldstein A (1987) Otto Krayer In: National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs 57: 151–225. | |
| book Klee E (1983) ‘Euthanasie’ im NS-Staat. Die ‘Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens’. Frankfurt, Germany: S Fischer. | |
| book Müller-Hill B (1998) Murderous Science. Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and others in Germany 1933–1945, with Afterword by James Watson. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. | |
| Müller-Hill B (1999) The blood from Auschwitz and the silence of the scholars. History and Philosophy of Life Sciences 21: 331–365. | |
| Müller-Hill B (2001) Genetics of susceptibility to tuberculosis: Mengele's experiments in Auschwitz. Nature Reviews Genetics 2: 631–634. | |
| Peiffer J (1997) Hirnforschung im zwielicht: beispiele verführbarer wissenschaftler aus der zeit des nationalsozialismus. Julius Hallervorden, HJ Scherer, B Ostertag. Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften 79: 1–112. | |
| book Peiffer J (2000) "Neuropathologische Forschung an ‘Euthanasie’ Opfern in zwei Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten". In: Kaufmann, D (ed.) Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus. Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven der Forschung, pp. 151–173. Göttingen, Germany: Wallstein. | |
| Further Reading | |
| book Beyerchen AD (1977) "Scientists under Hitler". Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. | |
| book Deichmann U (2001) "Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen". Chemiker und Biochemiker in der NS-Zeit. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH. | |
| book Deichmann U (1996) Biologists under Hitler. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [Translated from Deichmann U (1995) Biologen unter Hitler. Frankfurt, Germany: S Fischer.] | |
| book Kater M (1989) Doctors under Hitler. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. | |
| book Klee E (1997) Auschwitz. Die NS-Medizin und ihre Opfer. Frankfurt, Germany: S Fischer. | |
| book Klee E (2001) Deutsche Medizin im Dritten Reich. Karrieren vor und nach 1945. Frankfurt, Germany: S Fischer. | |
| book Lifton RJ (1986) The Nazi Doctors. Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. New York: Basic Books. | |
| book Proctor RN (1988) "Racial Hygiene". Medicine under the Nazis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. | |
| book Weinreich M (1946) "Hitler's Professors". The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes against the Jewish People. New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute. | |
