PDF We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848 (Race in the Atlantic World; 1700–1900 Ser.) by Mischa Honeck in History

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Following World War II; the American Military Tribunal indicted twenty-three Nazi doctors and administrators for performing agonizing and often fatal experiments on helpless concentration camp inmates. Using primarily court records; this book attempts to answer the following salient questions: What sort of medical experiments did the Nazi doctors perform? Who were their victims; and what was their fate? What; if any; were the medical results? What legal charges were brought against the doctors; and what was their defense? Who were the witnesses? Did the defendants try to reconcile their brutal acts with the Hippocratic Code never to do harm; or were they devoid of any medical ethics? Did they constitute dishonorable exceptions to a principled German medical profession; or were they symptomatic of a more widespread disregard for traditional medical ethics? In trying to answer these questions; Horst H. Freyhofer gives the reader the opportunity to follow the exchanges between prosecutors and defendants as well as the final reasoning of the court.