Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Koroth
Angaben zur Quelle:
12 [1996-1997] (1998) 91-106
Schlagwort(e):
Hippocrates.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Medical care
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World War, 1939-1945 Medical care
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National socialism Moral and ethical aspects
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Human experimentation in medicine
Kurzfassung:
Although the Nazis tried to abolish the Hippocratic Oath, eventually they realized that, since physicians had internalized it, it was necessary to reinterpret the Oath in accordance with Nazi ideology. They therefore claimed that the annihilation of the Jewish race was necessary in order to "heal" the German people, applying the Oath to the nation rather than to individuals. An SS doctor at Auschwitz, Fritz Klein, told a Jewish prisoner that due to his respect for human life he needed to remove the Jews, who were "a gangrenous appendix in the body of mankind".
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