Resources on Human Experimentation by Nazi Doctors

General Resources on the Holocaust

Holocaust Memorial and Research Sites

• The L'Chaim Homepage Includes the Virtual Tour of Dachau
• Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Holocaust Studies Center at Bronx High School of Science
• Simon Wiesenthal Center
• Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University
• Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
• A Living Memorial to the Holocaust - Museum of Jewish Heritage
• Documentation Centre of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW)

Directories of Holocaust Sites

• Holocaust Sites from the Nizkor Project
• Education Resources for research on the Holocaust from the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Holocaust Frequently Asked Questions: Auschwitz-Birkenau: Layman's Guide

Resources on the Nazi Doctors

The Nuremburg Trials

• The Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings from the official trial record
• Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 4, Thursday, 20 December 1945. from The Nuremburg Trials Page, by the Yale Law School Avalon Project. This transcript contains reports from Nazi medical experiments, including hypothermia experiments.
• Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Case I: United States of America vs. Karl Brandt, et al. The Medical Experiments Trial. Created for the Harvard Law Library by David de Lorenzo.
• Transcript of the first day of the Nuremberg trial from Court TV (long file)
• The Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings from The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Contains excerpts from the official trial record, with accompanying photographs. Sections include: Opening Statement (excerpts); Indictment; Testimony (excerpts); Sentences; Nuremberg Code
• Conference on The Nuremberg Code and Human Rights: Fiftieth Anniversary of the Doctors Trial December 9-10, 1996

Documents

• Excerpts from Nazi records, including medical experiments. By Daniel Keren; page by Dan Graf.
• Documents of Nazi Doctors by Beth Haverkamp and Wynell Schamel; originally published in Social Education, Volume 59, Number 6, October 1995
• Texts and Photos on Nazi Medicine from the L'Chaim Homepage

Other Resources

• Whither Nuremberg?: Medicine's Continuing Nazi Heritage by William E. Seidelman, M.D., from Medicine and Global Survival September, 1995
• Editorial: War Crimes and Medical Science, by Jennifer Leaning, M.D. from Medicine and Global Survival
• Not a Slippery Slope or Sudden Subversion: German Medicine and National Socialism in 1933 by Hartmut M. Hanauske-Abel, M.D., from Medicine and Global Survival
• Nuremberg Lamentation: For the Forgotten Victims of Medical Science by William E. Seidelman, M.D., from Medicine and Global Survival
• An Auschwitz Alphabet Contains sections on Nazi medicine. By Jonathan Wallace
• Using Nazi Experimental Data: Asking the Right Question An essay by Rabbi Barry Freundel
• Euthanasie in Wien ("Euthanasia in Vienna") by Wolfgang Neugebauer. Includes a discussion of euthanasia in the Holocaust, and on later experimentation after World War II, including the research of Julius Hallervorden and Hans Heinze
• An Interview with E.P. Richardson, neuropathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School Includes Richardson's description of his work with Julius Hallervorden and Hugo Spatz in 1955
• Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine by Ronald Bennet; Cybrary of the Holocaust's Education...A Legacy Forum, moderated by Stuart Nichols
• The Moral and Ethical Issues Raised by the Holocaust from Michael Nutkiewicz's A Teacher's Guide to the Penguin Edition of Holocaust Project: From Darkness Into Light by Judy Chicago
• Essays on the Holocaust by students in Jan Haswell's class; contains essays Doctors of the Holocaust and Medical Experiments of the Holocaust.
• Nazi Medical Experimentation: "Never Again" An essay by Stephen M. Scott

Photographs

• Holocaust Pictures Exhibition by François Schmitz, based on a site by Daniel Keren. See especially
  • Photo: A Prisoner is subjected to freezing experiments in Dachau
  • Children subjected to medical experiments in Auschwitz
  • High-Altitude medical experiments in Dachau

The Legacy of the Nazi Doctors

• Project Paperclip: Nazi Scientists who performed human experimentation in the U. S.

Bibliography

• Select Bibliography of Print Sources by Steven Hale
• Medical Experimentation in World War II: A Selected Bibliography from the Simon Wiesenthal Center

These pages maintained by Steven Hale. Last update: February 9, 1998.