Victims and survivors of Nazi human experiments science and suffering in the Holocaust Weindling, Paul creator author. text bibliography History. enk 2015 monographic eng print xviii, 312 pages ; 24 cm "While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians. This book seeks to remedy the marginalisation, and to place the experiments in the context of the broad history of National Socialism and the Holocaust. Paul Weindling bases this study on the reconstruction of a victim group through individual victims' life histories, and by weaving the victims' experiences collectively together in terms of different groupings, especially gender, ethnicity and religion, age, and nationality. The timing of the experiments, where they occurred, how many victims there were, and who they were, is analysed, as are hitherto under-researched aspects such as Nazi anatomy and executions. The experiments are also linked, more broadly, to major elements in the dynamic and fluid Nazi power structure and the implementation of racial policies. The approach is informed by social history from below, exploring both the rationales and motives of perpetrators, but assessing these critically in the light of victim narratives"-- 1: Exploring experiments -- Part 1. Eugenics to experiments, 1933-1941 -- 2: Nazifying medical research -- 3: On the slippery slope: from eugenics to experiments -- 4: Nazi psychiatry -- euthanasia, research -- 5: Racial research -- 6: First SS experiments 1939-41 -- Part 2. Peak years 1942-1944 -- 7: Prisoner of war experiments -- 8: Experiments and extermination -- 9: Infectious threats 1942-44 -- Part 3. Targetting victims -- 10: Psychiatric patients -- 11: Anatomical victims -- 12: Gypsies -- 13: Jews -- 14: Prisoners of war and forced labourers -- Part 4. Experiments in perspective -- 15: Relentless research -- 16: Scale and structure -- 17: Resistance and sabotage. Paul Weindling. Includes bibliographical references and index. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Human experimentation in medicine Atrocities History 20th century Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 1900 - 1999 fast Atrocities Human experimentation in medicine Wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt Judenvernichtung Kriegsverbrechen Nationalsozialismus Menschenversuch D804.3 .W3964 2015 940.53/18 MED039000 HIS043000 HIS037070 9781441179906 (hardback) 1441179909 (hardback) 9781472579935 (paperback) 1472579933 (paperback) 9781441189301 (epub) 1441189300 (epub) 2014010122 DLC 140313 20151106040939.0 in00003519969 eng