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Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans »

Book cover image of Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans by Vivien Spitz

Authors: Vivien Spitz
ISBN-13: 9781591810322, ISBN-10: 1591810329
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Sentient Publications
Date Published: May 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Vivien Spitz

Book Synopsis

A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors. This is the account of 23 men torturing and killing by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism. Doctors from Hell includes trial transcripts that have not been easily available to the general public and previously unpublished photographs used as evidence in the trial.

The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg, where she lived for two years while working on the trial. Once a Nazi sympathizer tossed bombs into the dining room of the hotel where she lived moments before she arrived for dinner. She takes us into the courtroom to hear the dramatic testimony and see the reactions of the defendants to the proceedings. This landmark trial resulted in the establishment of the Nuremberg code, which sets the guidelines for medical research involving human beings. A significant addition to the literature on World War II and the Holocaust, medical ethics, human rights, and the barbaric depths to which human beings can descend.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1: OCTOBER 1946, WESTOVER AIR FIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
2: THE NUREMBURG WAR CRIMES TRIALS
3: THE SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS
4: CASE NO. 1, THE MEDICAL CASE
5: HIGH ALTITUDE EXPERIMENTS
6: FREEZING EXPERIMENTS
7: MALARIA EXPERIMENTS
8: BONE, MUSCLE, AND NERVE REGENERATION AND BONE TRANSPLANTATION EXPERIMENTS
9: MUSTARD GAS (LOST) EXPERIMENTS
10: SULFANILAMIDE EXPERIMENTS
11: SEA WATER EXPERIMENTS
12: DECEMBER 1946 HOLIDAY RECESS
13: EPIDEMIC JAUNDICE (HEPATITIS)
14: STERILIZATION
15: TYPHUS EXPERIMENTS
16: POISON EXPERIMENTS
17: INCENDIARY BOMB EXPERIMENTS
18: PHLEGMON, POLYGAL, AND PHENOL EXPERIMENTS
19: JEWISH SKELETON COLLECTION
20: EUTHANASIA
21: JUDGMENTS AND SENTENCES IN THE MEDICAL CASE STATISTICS
22: GETTING HOME DELAYED BY BERLIN CRISIS
23: CONFRONTED BY HOLOCAUST DENIAL

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