Auschwitz

[...]here I was in 2022, touching an iron gate, gazing at a barbed wire fence that seemed to extend into forever during a study trip to Auschwitz with 19 medical students, courtesy of passionate donors to the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (OUWB), MI, USA. A vast cemetery, a...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2024-01, Vol.403 (10424), p.344-345
Main Author: Wald, Hedy S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antisemitism
Barbed wire
Concentration camps
Genocide
Holocaust
Mass murders
Medical education
Medical instruments
Medical personnel
Medical students
Medicine
Nazi era
Nazi groups
Professional ethics
Professionals
Sterilization
Tattoos
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Summary:[...]here I was in 2022, touching an iron gate, gazing at a barbed wire fence that seemed to extend into forever during a study trip to Auschwitz with 19 medical students, courtesy of passionate donors to the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (OUWB), MI, USA. A vast cemetery, a landscape of ironic calm and even trees in a place where genocide of European Jewry (the “Final Solution”) and the mass murder of other populations, such as the Sinti and Roma persecuted by the Nazi regime, was perpetrated with pervasive complicity of the medical–scientific establishment. Physicians were involved in antisemitic persecution and dismissal of Jewish doctors, forced sterilisation, the murder (termed “euthanasia”) of individuals with mental and physical disabilities, and horrific experimentation linked to prestigious universities. Bring your stethoscope, technical skills, and knowledge to that patient in the hospital bed.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00098-9