... Abstract This chapter explores the connections between Nazi medicine, tuberculosis (TB), and genocide. TB was deeply enmeshed in Nazi ideology of racial purity and viewed as a marker of genetic inferiority. In Germany in the 1930s, people with TB were stigmatized, prohibited from marrying...

... with ‘Aryan' and academic staff loyal to the Nazis. Indeed, many physicians and scientists went even further and became engaged in National Socialist (NS)-euthanasia programs. In recent years, the medical community has become more aware of the ethical burden associated with eponyms derived from scientists...

... (Warthegau) and the Generalgouvernement . The Nazis considered the Warthegau to be definitively incorporated into the Third Reich and resettled nearly one million Poles to the Generalgouvernement . In their place over half a million people of German origin from Baltic states were relocated. The Nazis...

... joined the Nazi Party and affiliated groups in record numbers. Forced sterilization and then so-called ‘euthanasia' of neurological and psychiatric patients were planned and executed by prominent German and Austrian neuroscientists. Other neuroscientists collaborated indirectly by using patients...

... Abstract World War II (WWII) began on September 1, 1939, when the Nazi German army invaded Poland and progressed relentlessly towards Warsaw. After silence from Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and several members of the British Empire declared war on September 3, 1939. Belgium's...

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... who published his first novel, Voyage au bout de la nuit ( Journey to the End of the Night ), in 1932. In the middle of the 1930s, he began to write anti-Semitic and racist pamphlets and turned to a collaborationist stance with Nazi Germany. After the Second World War, he was declared a national...

... Abstract Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is considered one of the most influential writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In addition to his novels and essays, he was well known for his criticisms of the Nazi party, and particularly against the racial nationalism promoted by Adolf...

... Abstract In 1939, the year Germany started World War II, tuberculosis (TB) mortality was at its lowest, only a few countries had lower TB mortality rates. When the Nazis came into power in 1933, they took over under the main health-related motto “Public interest ahead of self-interest...

... to sanatoria or hospitals. Because the Nazi occupiers were afraid of TB, these services were left relatively unaffected; some new controls were even introduced, including pasteurization of milk. Nevertheless, the large increase in patients overwhelmed the system and increasing attention was directed towards...

... (1939-1945) in regions re-annexed from neighboring countries to Hungary in 1938 and 1940. Hungary joined the Nazi war effort in 1941, after which the treatment of TB patients deteriorated rapidly. It became increasingly difficult to provide satisfactory amounts and quality of food, which was important...

... Abstract A critical analysis of the historical involvement of neurology and neurosurgery in military emergency care services enables us to better contextualize and appreciate the development of modern neurology at large. Wartime neurosurgery and civil brain science during the German Nazi period...

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... World War II (WWII) began on 1 September 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. On 3 September 1939, after a United Kingdom ultimatum directing the Nazis to withdraw their troops was ignored, the United Kingdom declared war against Germany at 11:00 a.m., and then its collaborating partner...

... of the First Republic. The social democratic movement was outlawed. This induced, from 1933, an exodus of Social Democrats to the Czech Republic and further on to the Soviet Union. These people however, returned in part and subsequently lived as stateless persons in Austria. Illegal Nazis moved temporarily...

... 1940 and the fall of 1944, hundreds of thousands of people were incarcerated in jails and concentration camps. The STO (Compulsory Work Service) was created under laws and regulations of Vichy France, but was used by Nazi Germany to compensate for its loss of manpower as it conscripted more and more...