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Parent topics
- The Holocaust [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Auschwitz Concentration Camp [r]: The largest Nazi death camp, in which more than two million people died, located in Poland; first commanded by Rudolf Hoess. [e]
- Medical ethics [r]: The study of moral values as they apply to medicine. [e]
- Schutzstaffel [r]: A Nazi German organization, the "SS". technically part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party but in many respects a "state within a state", its functions intermingled with government offices in a manner characteristic of Adolf Hitler's desire to keep final control. While it is best known for its security and genocidal operations, it also had major economic and regular military roles, a far growth from its original role as Hitler's personal bodyguard [e]
- Nazi race and biological ideology [r]: The policies of Nazi Germany, based on the views of Adolf Hitler, which emphasized encouraging the breeding of what he considered to be a superior race and preventing the breeding, or actively killing, what he considered subhuman [e]
- Informed consent [r]: Agreement, by the person affected or his surrogate, to make a knowledgeable decision consenting to participation in a medical treatment or research trial [e]
- Eugenics [r]: The general name for a series of ostensibly scientific claims about inheritance among humans, which sought to eliminate traits, such as "imbecility" or criminal behavior, by selective sterilization, regulation of family size, and restrictions on who could marry whom. [e]
- Final Solution [r]: Nazi policy (in German: Endlösung) which culminated in the Holocaust. [e]
- Kaiser Wilhelm Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Otto von Verscheur [r]: Professor at the Kaiser William Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics, who was part of the development of Nazi race and biological ideology; he was one of Josef Mengele's teachers and directed his experiments and Auschwitz Concentration Camp [e]
Subtopics
- Hippocratic Oath [r]: An oath traditionally taken by physicians before practising medicine. [e]
- Rudolf Hoess [r]: (1900-1947) SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer; Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1938 -1940); first Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (4 May 1940 to 10 November 1943); testified extensively at the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg); executed by a Polish court in 1947 [e]
- Nuremberg Code [r]: The statement of ethical medical research on human beings that came from the Medical Case trials of Nazi medical personnel, which was part of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals; it forms the basis for the Declaration of Helsinki [e]
- Nuremberg Military Tribunals [r]: A set of twelve trials of officials of Nazi Germany, conducted by the United States in its zone of occupation of Germany, following the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Medical Case (NMT) [r]: As part of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, the trial of Nazi personnel for participating in involuntary medical experiments and the medical support of genocide [e]
- U.S. intelligence involvement with World War II Nazi war criminals [r]: Actions by intelligence agencies, primarily in the U.S. Army, where Nazi strongly suspected of war crimes were not prosecuted in exchange for information, such information on the Soviet Union [e]
- Paraguay [r]: Country in Central South America, northeast of Argentina, which also has boundaries with Bolivia and Brazil. [e]
- Alfredo Stroessner [r]: (1912-2006) Paraguayan general who took control of Paraguay in a military coup; dictator from 1954 to 1989. [e]
- Twin [r]: One of a pair of placental mammalian siblings — twins — that shared time in the womb of their mother. [e]
- WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps [e]
- Roma [r]: Add brief definition or description