Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust - Hardcover

Weindling, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441179909 ISBN 13: 9781441179906

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians. This book seeks to remedy the marginalisation, and to place the experiments in the context of the broad history of National Socialism and the Holocaust.

Paul Weindling bases this study on the reconstruction of a victim group through individual victims' life histories, and by weaving the victims' experiences collectively together in terms of different groupings, especially gender, ethnicity and religion, age, and nationality. The timing of the experiments, where they occurred, how many victims there were, and who they were, is analysed, as are hitherto under-researched aspects such as Nazi anatomy and executions. The experiments are also linked, more broadly, to major elements in the dynamic and fluid Nazi power structure and the implementation of racial policies. The approach is informed by social history from below, exploring both the rationales and motives of perpetrators, but assessing these critically in the light of victim narratives.

About this title

Book Description:

Provides a comprehensive analysis of unethical Nazi experiments and coercive research, with a focus on the experiences of the victims.

About the Author:

Paul Weindling is Professor of History of Medicine in the Department of History, Philosophy and Religion, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1441179909
• ISBN 13: 9781441179906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336