Preliminary Bibliography on Human Experimentation by Nazi Doctors

Books and Articles

* Annas, George J., Michael A. Grodin, ed. The Nazi doctors and the Nuremberg Code : human rights in human experimentation. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Astor, Gerald. The "last" Nazi : the life and times of Dr. Joseph Mengele. New York : D.I. Fine, 1985.

Die Auschwitz-Hefte : Texte der polnischen Zeitschrift "Przeglad lekarski" über historische, psychische und medizinische Aspekte des Lebens und Sterbens in Auschwitz. Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung. Weinheim : Beltz, 1987.

Bernadac, Christian. Les Médecins maudits : les expériences médicales humaines dans les camps de concentration. Paris : France-Empire, 1977.

Breggin, Peter R. Toxic Psychiatry. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Explores connections between Nazi eugenics and U.S. psychiatry

Caplan, ed. When medicine went mad : bioethics and the Holocaust. Ed. Arthur . Caplan. Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, 1992.

Contents: Eva Mozes Kor, "Nazi Experiments as Viewed by a Survivor of Mengele's Experiments"; Sara Seiler Vigorito, "A Profile of Nazi Medicine: The Nazi Doctor--His Tethods and Goals"; Gisela Konopka, "The Meaning of the Holocaust for Bioethics"; Robert N. Proctor, "Nazi Biomedical Policies"; Benno Müller-Hill, "Eugenics: The Science and Religion of the Nazis"; Arthur L. Caplan, "How Did Medicine Go So Wrong?"; Robert S. Pozos, "Scientific Inquiry and Ethics: The Dachau Data"; Jay Katz and Tobert S. Pozos, "The Dachau Hypothermia Study: An Ethical and Scientific Commentary"; Benjamin Freedman, "Moral Analysis and the Use of Nazi Experimental Results"; Velvl W. Greene, "Can Scientists Use Information Derived from the Concentration Camps? Ancient Answers to New Questions"; Ruth Macklin, "Which Way Down the Slippery Slope? Nazi Medical Killing and Euthanasia Today"; Ronald E. Cranford, "The Contemporary Euthanasia Movement and the Nazi Euthanasia Program: Are There Meaningful Similarities?"; Richard John Neuhaus, "The Way They Were, The Way We Are"; Jay Katz, "Abuse of Human Beings for the Sake of Science"; William E. Seidelman, "'Medspeak' for Murder: The Nazi Experience and the Culture of Medicine"; Nancy L. Segal, "Twin Research at Auschwitz-Birkenau: Implications for the Use of Nazi Data Today"; George J. Annas, "The Human Genome Project in Perspective: Confronting Our Past To Protect Our Future."

Cocks, Geoffrey. The old as new: the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial and medicine in modern Germany. In Berg, Manfred; Cocks, Geoffrey, eds. Medicine and Modernity: Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 1997: 173-191.

DuBois, Josiah. The Devil's Chemists. Boston: Beacon Press, 1952.

The First German War Crimes Trial: Chief Judge Walter B. Beals' Notebook of The Doctors' Trial, Held in Nuernberg, Germany, December, 1946 to August, 1947. Ed. and introduced by Roger Goodman. 2 vols. Salisbury, N.C.: Documentary Publications.

Gallagher, Hugh Gregory. By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1990.

Glass, James M. "Life Unworthy of Life": Racial Phobia and Mass Murder in Hitler's Germany. New York, NY: Basic Books; 1997.

Gotz Aly, Peter Chroust, and Christian Pross; Cleansing the fatherland : Nazi medicine and racial hygiene; translated by Belinda Cooper ; foreword by Michael H. Kater. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994.

Paul Hoedeman. Hitler or Hippocrates : medical experiments and euthanasia in the Third Reich. Translation from Dutch by Ralph de Rijke ; foreword by E.A. Cohen. Book Guild, Sussex, England 1991.

International Auschwitz Committee. Nazi medicine : doctors, victims, and medicine in Auschwitz. New York : Howard Fertig, 1986.

Kaempffert, Waldemar. "German Experiments in Freezing and Reviving Prisoners at Dachau Concentration Camp." The New York Times, November 18, 1945.

Kor, Eva Mozes. Echoes from Auschwitz : Dr. Mengele's twins, the story of Eva and Miriam Mozes. Terre Haute, IN : Candles, Inc., 1995.

Letulle, Claude J. Nightmare memoir : four years as a prisoner of the Nazis. Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

* Lifton, Robert Jay. The Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide. New York : Basic Books, 1986.

Matalon Lagnado, Lucette. Children of the flames : Dr. Josef Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz. New York : Morrow, 1991.

Medical experiments on Jewish inmates of concentration camps. Introduction by John Mendelsohn. New York : Garland Pub., 1982.

Medizin und Nationalsozialismus : tabuisierte Vergangenheit --ungebrochene Tradition? Ed. Gerhard Baader, Ulrich Schultz. Berlin : Verlagsgesellschaft Gesundheit, 1983.

Müller-Hill, Benno. Murderous Science: Elimination by Scientific Se4lection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others, Germany 1933-1945. Tr. George R. Fraxer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.See especially the chapter "The use of those who had been deprived of their rights as material for anthropological and psychiatric research."

Nazi medicine : doctors, victims, and medicine in Auschwitz. International Auschwitz Committee. New York : Howard Fertig, 1986.

Nyiszli, Miklós. Auschwitz : an eyewitness account of Mengele's infamous death camp; translated by Tibère Kremer and Richard Seaver ; with a foreword by Bruno Bettelheim. New York : Seaver Books, 1986.

Panush, Richard S. Upon finding a Nazi anatomy atlas: the lessons of Nazi medicine. Pharos. 1996 Fall; 59(4): 18-22.

* Posner, Gerald L. Mengele : the complete story. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1986.

Schwarberg, Gunther. The murders at Bullenhuser Damm : the SS doctor and the children. Translated by Erna Baber Rosenfeld with Alvin H. Rosenfeld. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1984.

Sheldon, Mark; Whitely, William P.; Folker, Brian; Hafner, Arthur W.; and Gaylin, Williard. Nazi data: Dissociation from evil. Hastings Center Report 19(4):16-18; July/August, 1989. Science. 1998.

Siegel, Barry. "Nazi Data: A Dilemma for Science." Los Angeles Times, October 30, 1988.

Film and Videos

In the shadow of the Reich: Nazi medicine. A film by John J. Michalczyk. New York, N.Y. : First-Run Features, 1997.

Books marked * are in the Georgia Perimeter College Library.
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