The Plot against Cancer: Heredity and Cancer in German and Dutch Medicine, 1933--1945 (2008)
In the Third Reich hereditarian approaches and their eugenic implications seemed to offer possibilities for fundamental progress in the fight against cancer. The concept of a hereditary predisposition for cancer, Krebsbereitschaft, led to flexible multifactor approaches including proposals for both eugenic and social-hygenic measures. These approaches were not typical of German medicine alone. In the Netherlands hereditarian approaches did not play a central role in the 1930s. they lacked institutional support in a country where health polcies were characterized by indirect strategies working through intermediaries such as genreal practitioners. Howerever, potential the elements for similar anti-cancer politices as in Germany were present. This development was blocked because of the political radicalization during the war and German defeat.
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