Victims of human experiments and coercive research under National Socialism: Gender and racial aspects
TitleVictims of human experiments and coercive research under National Socialism: Gender and racial aspects
Author
Call number179.7/0016
Object number04774k
Place of publicationHouston, Texas, United States
PublisherSpringer
Year of publication
2014
Physical descriptionpp139-156
MaterialArticle
ISBN9783319057019
NotesArticle from the book 'Human subjects research after the Holocaust.' pp139-156
Description
When concentration camps were liberated, groups of former prisoners documented the medical experiments carried out on them at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen and the predominantly women's camp of Ravensbruck. On March 4, 1945, a declaration by The Prisoner Doctors of Auschwitz declared that prisoners had been treated as experimental animals, and that that Allies should bring to trial those responsible; and that prosecuting perpetrators should prevent coerced human experiments and medical atrocities in the future