fruit of the poisonous tree: using Nazi research data today
TitleThe fruit of the poisonous tree: using Nazi research data today
Author
Call number940.5318/0061
Object number03404K
Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Year of publication
1989
Physical descriptionpp95-100
MaterialArticle
ISBN073167412X
NotesArticle from the book 'The gift of life : commemorative volume which contains the substance of papers presented at the International Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors May 8-12 1985 pp95-100
Description
On 20 August 1947, sentences were pronounced upon sixteen defendants - all convicted of war crimes. The tribunal found that from the outbreak of World War II the defendants authorised, supervised, commanded the performance of criminal medical experiments on non-German nationals, including Jews. A legacy of these experiments has been rediscovered in the science of hypothermia, and used in the testing of cold-water survival suits carried in fishing boats
