Anatomy and Ethical Transgressions in National Socialist (Nazi) Germany

Harvard FAS

This seminar introduces students to the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust as an extreme example of antisemitism and racism, and of crimes against humanity and genocide. These included medical crimes, which, thus far, are the most thoroughly documented examples of ethical transgressions of health care professionals. They include forced sterilizations, the “euthanasia” systematic patient murder program, and forced brutal medical experiments on the living and the dead.However, under…