November 18, 2014

1941-1945: Large-Scale Murderous Experiments Conducted on Concentration Camp Prisoners

Jews and other devalued and dehumanized groups were regarded as fitting “material” for medical and biological experiments

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1941-1945: Large-Scale Murderous Experiments Conducted on Concentration Camp Prisoners

November 18, 2014

Ravensbrück: the “exclusive” SS women’s concentration camp

Ravensbrück was a concentration camp built exclusively for women. . It was designed to terrorize, brutalize, humiliate, torture

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Ravensbrück: the “exclusive” SS women’s concentration camp

November 18, 2014

Ravensbrück: training center for SS female guards

Ravensbrück operated under strict SS rules noted for its regimentation, terrorization, brutality and humiliation. The policy was

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Ravensbrück: training center for SS female guards

November 18, 2014

Disposable slave laborers; disposable children

Pervasive violence, brutality and murder, combined with hard labor, overcrowding, disease, and starvation systematically limited the number

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Disposable slave laborers; disposable children

November 18, 2014

Women’s Fight for Survival: bonding, resistance, solidarity & acts of defiance

Bonding between women was of utmost importance for their survival in the camp. The women at Ravensbrück

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Women’s Fight for Survival: bonding, resistance, solidarity & acts of defiance

November 18, 2014

Ravensbrück: Action 14F13 the Final Solution Genocide on German Soil

Dr. Walter Sonntag, the senior doctor at Ravensbrück, had trained to be a dentist, but switched to

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Ravensbrück: Action 14F13 the Final Solution Genocide on German Soil

November 18, 2014

Ravensbrück “lapins” living symbols of experimental medical atrocities

Ravensbrück was conveniently situated and its Revier (hospital) was staffed with doctors and nurses. Experimental medical atrocities were conducted

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Ravensbrück “lapins” living symbols of experimental medical atrocities

November 18, 2014

1943–1945: The German Medical Profession’s Role in the Atrocities; Dwarfs who Survived Auschwitz

Physicians were not pawns of the Nazi regime; they legitimized mass murder. In contradiction to the myth

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1943–1945: The German Medical Profession’s Role in the Atrocities; Dwarfs who Survived Auschwitz

November 18, 2014

1945: Dr. John W. Thompson gathers evidence of Nazi Doctors’ Atrocities

At the end of the war, Allied and Soviet military intelligence officials were on a competitive mission

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1945: Dr. John W. Thompson gathers evidence of Nazi Doctors’ Atrocities

November 18, 2014

1945: The West German Federal Physicians Form the Bundesärztekammer (BAK)

Even as their profession’s crimes were coming to light, they elected Dr. Karl Haedenkamp, a Nazi as

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1945: The West German Federal Physicians Form the Bundesärztekammer (BAK)

November 18, 2014

December 9, 1946: Opening of the Nazi Doctors Trial by a U.S. Military Tribunal

It was the first of twelve U.S. military tribunals at Nuremberg. Sixteen Nazi doctors were tried at

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December 9, 1946: Opening of the Nazi Doctors Trial by a U.S. Military Tribunal

November 18, 2014

Buchenwald Trial at Dachau; Ravensbrück Trial at Hamburg

Buchenwald Trial at Dachau, April 11 –August 14, 1947 Between July 1937 and April 1945, some 250,000

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Buchenwald Trial at Dachau; Ravensbrück Trial at Hamburg

November 18, 2014

August 20, 1947: Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg All sixteen Nazi doctors were found guilty; seven were sentenced to death and executed,

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August 20, 1947: Judgment at Nuremberg

November 18, 2014

American Medical Establishment Discomforted by Nuremberg

The revelations at Nuremberg were extremely discomforting to the American medical establishment: the sheer unprecedented scale of

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American Medical Establishment Discomforted by Nuremberg