By Paul Julian Weindling (auth.)
ISBN-10: 0230506054
ISBN-13: 9780230506053
ISBN-10: 023050700X
ISBN-13: 9780230507005
ISBN-10: 3443593674
ISBN-13: 9783443593674
This e-book bargains a notably new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of trained consent. It locations the sufferers and Allied clinical Intelligence officials at centre level, whereas supplying an entire reconstruction of guidelines on struggle crimes and trials on the topic of Nazi scientific atrocities and genocide.
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The Swiss Red Cross had supported the German military offensive in the East, and its officers later protested against the prosecution of Handloser at Nuremberg. 60 The ICRC was right to act impartially and monitor the conditions of the German doctors and administrators who were accused of medical crimes; but it did immensely more to assist the German perpetrators both during and after the war than the victims of the human experiments, whose lives were callously sacrificed. After arrest early in May 1945, Handloser continued to direct public health, research and anti-epidemic measures.
The ruling elite hoped for production of a miracle weapon, and scientists looked forward to salvaging their careers. 11 The implication was that the German defendants were valiant guardians of scientific traditions rather than complicit in genocidal crimes. Refugees from Nazism and governments in exile lobbied the British and American governments to prosecute those responsible for racially motivated crimes. 12 It was at this point that liberated doctors and prisoner medical auxiliaries from concentration camps, survivors and a nucleus of committed and conscience-stricken Allied medical investigators called for documentation and prosecution of human experiments.
While at the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory he was already preoccupied by the problem of anti-Semitism, diagnosing it as the major illness of civilisation. Remarkably, given their later collaboration, Alexander in 1938 presented Thompson with a History of the Jews. 31 During the war Alexander, Ivy and Thompson worked energetically to improve the medical assessment of the fitness of aircrew and their chances of survival. Thompson assisted by developing apparatus to pre-breathe oxygen. 32 His task of monitoring the psychological fitness of American aircrew for bombing missions prepared him for assessing the mental state of captured German aviation researchers.
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