Medicine - Anatomy - NS-Regime
Selected web links
(For books and journal articles, see the Reference section of the report by the Anatomical Institute in Jena).
General
(1) Anatomy in the Third Reich: An outline (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3), published in Clinical Anatomy by Sabine Hildebrandt (University of Michigan)
(2) Medicine and Murder in the Third Reich by W. E. Seidelman (The Jewish Virtual Library)
(3) Nazi Health and Social Policy, by Robert N. Proctor (Simon Wiesenthal Center)
Anatomical Collections
(4) Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit Präparaten aus menschlichem Gewebe in Sammlungen, Museen und öffentlichen Räumen, by Bundesärztekammer, in Deutsches Ärzteblatt, August 2003, pages 378-383.
Euthanasia (Jena/Stadtroda)
(5) Bericht der Kommission der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena zur Untersuchung der Beteiligung Prof. Dr. Jussuf Ibrahims an der Vernichtung "lebensunwerten Lebens" während der NS-Zeit. April 2000.
University of Vienna - Pernkopf anatomical atlas
(6) Untersuchungen zur Anatomischen Wissenschaft in Wien 1938-1945. Senatsprojekt der Universität Wien. Eine Zusammenfassung. By Gustav Spann.
(7) Eduard Pernkopf's Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy: The Continuing Ethical Controversy, by Chris Hubbard, published in The Anatomical Record (Part B: The New Anatomist) vol. 265, pages 207-211, 2001. The article is available on the website of Wiley Interscience.
(8) Ethics and access to teaching materials in the medical library: The case of the Pernkopf atlas, by Michel C. Atlas, published in Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 2001 January; vol. 89(1), pages 51-58.
Hermann Voss, Director of the Institute of Anatomy, University of Jena, 1952-1962
(9) Hermann Voss (Wikipedia)
From 1938 to 1939, Rudolph Spanner worked at the Anatomical Institute in Jena. He later moved to the University of Danzig where he allegedly ran a factory that produced soap from the remains of Jews and Poles killed by the Nazis. For a historical analysis of the "soap legend", see "Seife aus Judenfett - Zur Wirkungsgeschichte einer urban legend" by Joachim Neander (University of Krakow, Poland), published on the website of Prof. H. Marcuse, Professor of German History, University of California at Santa Barbara. An opposed conclusion has been publicized by the Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation (link).
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