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Medical Experiments in Nazi Concentration Camps: Problems of Studies

Student: Molianova Anna

Supervisor: Oleg Budnitskii

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2016

This final qualification work are dedicated medical human experimentations conducted by doctors of the Third Reich. The theme is considered on the example of the Auschwitz concentration camp, which functioned from 1939 to 1945, was a major "factory of death" where was killed millions people. Also Auschwitz was the largest medical laboratory of that time. The work is based on archive materials of the Polish state memorial Museum Auschwitz – Birkenau Archive , including unpublished documents. Doctors who served in the ranks of the SS and in the concentration camp, conducted the whole system of murder in it. They adjusted the conveyor of factory of death, from start to finish – from the selection on the platform to recovery of bodies. Nothing of what happened at Auschwitz was not without control and participation of physicians. Medical experiments on prisoners of Nazi concentration camps during the Second world war – a terrible and inhuman Chapter of history. It was possible thanks not only to the militaristic ambitions of Germany, but also the criminal minds of people weaned on the ideology of racial supremacy. The doctors of the Third Reich were "biological soldiers" of Adolf Hitler who, in accordance with the orders of his superiors, treated their folk from the "growths" on the body of society, and kept the «purity of the race». Life in Nazi ideology led doctors actually materialized, not thinking about the method. In this context, Auschwitz became the largest medical "laboratory-factory" of the Third Reich, where doctors determined the all – politics, daily life, death and life, economics and income. The essence of this work is to present a coherent picture "medical laboratories" of Auschwitz: what experiments, who conducted experiments, how they arose. The essence of this work is to present a coherent picture "medical laboratories" of Auschwitz, to create a "collective portrait" of the doctor-killers (without the quotes!), describe medical experiments.

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