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15%OFFGötz Aly - Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene - 9780801848247 - V9780801848247
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Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene

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Description for Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene Paperback. Against this background, Cleansing the Fatherland sends a stark message that is difficult to ignore. Translator(s): Cooper, Belinda. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFME; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 510.
"The chapters in this volume painfully drive home the point that certainly as far as Germany is concerned, the lessons of the Third Reich have not yet been learned...These significant attempts by younger recruits to the larger medical establishment to change things through eye-opening reflection and analysis, however uncomfortable, need support."-Michael H. Kater, author of Doctors under Hitler, in the foreword. The infamous Nuremberg Doctors' Trials of 1946-47 revealed horrifying crimes -ranging from grotesque medical experiments on humans to mass murder-committed by physicians and other health care workers in Nazi Germany. But far more common, argue the authors ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801848247
SKU
V9780801848247
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About Götz Aly
Gotz Aly is a freelance political scientist and historian. He is editor of Beitrage zur nationalsozialistischen Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik. Peter Chroust is on the scientific staff of the Zentrum fur Historische Sozialforschung at the University of Cologne. Christian Pross, M.D., is medical director of the Berlin Center for the Treatment of Torture Victims.

Reviews for Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene
Thanks to the work of Aly and his associates, those areas of medical criminality that escaped the retribution the Allies visited on the more obviously ghoulish experimenters... have at long last come out of the shadows.
Michael Burleigh Times Higher Education Supplement The gruesome medical experiments that Cleansing the Fatherland describes... were exposed during the Nuremberg doctors trials of ... Read more

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