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Brian Harmon answers:I can point you to some sources that should give an introduction to the subject. The first is Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp edited by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum. The two chapters authored by Helena Kubica entitled "The Crimes of Josef Mengele" and "Children" and the chapter named "Nazi Doctors" by Robert Jay Lifton and Amy Hackett should give a good overview of what was done to children in Auschwitz. For a more thorough examination, Robert Jay Lifton wrote a book called The Nazi Doctors which also deals with the psychology of the perpetrators. Lastly, the memoirs of inmate physician Dr. Miklos Nyiszli should be particularly illuminating. Dr. Nyiszli worked directly under Dr. Mengele during his time in Auschwitz. There is another book entitled Children of the Flames which covers Mengele's use of twins for his lethal experiments in Auschwitz, I haven't read the book so I can't offer much more than the title. Hope this is some help to you, - Brian Harmon References
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Harry W. Mazal OBE answers:I am one of the persons in the Holocaust History project that responds to questions such as yours. It is possible that other of my colleagues will also add to what I am writing. Part of the answer to your questions lies in Volumes I and II of the Nurnberg Military Tribunal. This covers the so-called "Medical Trial." Over the next few months the entire series of war criminal trials held in Nuremberg will appear on the Holocaust History web-page. As I am doing the transcriptions you may follow the progress of this process by visiting my private web-page: and selecting: Nazi War Crime Trials: Nuernberg Military Tribunal (part of Volume 1 on-line). I should have up to 200 pages on-line by this evening. A few other sources (of many others) residing in my private library=20 which you might seek out are:
Yours sincerely, Harry W. Mazal OBE
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Harry W. Mazal OBE answers:Thank you for your query.It's Mengele! There is an enormous amount of information and documentation on the medical experiments performed on hapless prisoners by Nazi physicians. I don't know that you will find very much on the web except for the book mentioned below. I am giving you, however, a number of sources in books which are usually found in most libraries. Volumes I and II, of the Nuernberg Military Tribunals dealing with what is known "The Medical Case." The collection (15 volumes) is partially available on the web, and are also available in most major libraries. You may read the first 508 pages of Volume I on my personal web-page: http://www.mazal.org/archive/nmt/01/NMT01-C001.htm The text so far covers high altitude, freezing, malaria, lost (mustard) gas, sulfanilamide, bone muscle and nerve transplantation and regeneration, sea-water, epidemic jaundice, and typhus experiments. I hope to have the next 500 pages up in a few months. Once a complete volume is transcribed it can also be viewed at the Holocaust History web-site. A few other very good sources of information are:
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Medical Experiments on Human Beings in Auschwitz & War Research Laboratories(Twenty Women Prisoners' Accounts)
Murderous Science
Doctors of Death (four volumes)
Final Solutions: Biology, Prejudice, and Genocide Yours sincerely, Harry W. Mazal OBE
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Andrew Mathis responds:I am one of the volunteers who answers questions submitted to the Holocaust History Project. This is obviously an emotion-laden issue, and I think I can sum it up with a personal anecdote before giving you a Web-based resource that will give you what you're looking for. About ten years ago, a local radio talk-show host, who is Jewish, told the story of a woman who, while interned at Auschwitz, was the victim of horrendous medical experiments. She was able to survive but had life-long medical problems. The host suggested that, if the medical files on her from Auschwitz were made available, we might learn the extent of what was done to her and how to correct it. My father, who is also Jewish, took a very hard line on the issue, stating (in paraphrase), "We should allow absolutely no good whatsoever to come out of what transpired in those places." In his opinion, it didn't matter if the cure for cancer was found through those experiments. In this case, for him, the end would not justify the means. I hope I've demonstrated to some extent how divided Jews, medical professionals, and others are on the ethics of using Nazi medical research on internees. You'll certainly find much on both sides of the debate here: http://www.gpc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment/nazi.html Good luck on your project. Andrew E. Mathis, Ph.D. Question:I am doing a Doctor's degree. My research is about the medical experimentation under the nazism. I know that in Nazi Conspiracy and Agression, vol. VI, page 175 (acccording to Hannah Arendt bibliography) there's an evidence about a new National Health Law that would allow to exterminate also German people not "racial wanted". I've been searched for it in your archives with no succes. Please, could you send me this information by e-mail? Harry W. Mazal OBE answers:I am one of the persons at the Holocaust History Project that responds to questions from our visitors. It is possible that you will receive other answers from my colleagues.The citation that you give above (Vol. VI, p. 175) is not correct. That page corresponds to something entirely different. There is a wealth of information on this subject both on the web and in published books, all of which are in my personal library and can usually be found in any good university library. Some important aspects regarding medical experimentation by the Nazis can be found in Vol. 1 and 2 of the Nuernberg Military Tribunals. You may peruse the complete text as published in those two books by visiting my personal web-site: http://www.mazal.org/NMT-HOME.htm I suggest that you scroll down to the Table of Contents and select those parts of these huge tomes that are of interest to you. The layout is as close to that on the originals as HTML language allows. Use the little blue arrows to turn the pages. A few other sources that are germane to your work are:
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