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Debate erupted in 1933 about whether Nazism and the maltreatment of Jewish scientists and doctors destroyed German science and medicine. Anti-Nazi critiques like Gumpert’s Heil Hunger! derided the weakness of German medical research and pointed to increased rates of infections like diphtheria and puerperal sepsis.1 Robert Brady’s pioneering study of German fascism examined how the Nazis reorganised science on the basis of cultural and economic autarky.2 Nazi propaganda claimed achievements in hereditary research, biochemistry and pharmaceuticals.
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Weindling, P.J. (2004). Criminal Research. In: Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230506053_4
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