"A brilliant attempt to explain the profound historical crisis into
which medicine had plummeted during the Nazi period with the tried
methods of social history.--
Historische Zeitschrift
"The author has drawn from an extraordinary range of sources, and
the weight of evidence he compiles will certainly give pause to
anyone who still wants to believe that professionals kept their
hands clean in this era of great and methodical crimes.--
Journal
of Modern History
"Kater's important book deserves close attention from historians of
medicine and German historians alike.--
Isis
In this history of medicine and the medical profession in the Third
Reich, Michael Kater examines the career patterns, educational
training, professional organization, and political socialization of
German physicians under Hitler. His discussion ranges widely, from
doctors who participated in Nazi atrocities, to those who actively
resisted the regime's perversion of healing, to the vast majority
whose ideology and behavior fell somewhere between the two
extremes. He also takes a chilling look at the post-Hitler medical
establishment's problematic relationship to the Nazi past.
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