Chapter ID: CBB373208361

Chemical Weapons Research on Soldiers and Concentration Camp Inmates in Nazi Germany (2017)

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Schmaltz, Florian (Author)


Springer International
Pages: 229-258
Publication date: 2017
Language: English


In 1944 and 1945 scientists and physicians in the Allied military intelligence gathered evidence on the criminal human experiments with chemical weapons conducted on inmates of the Nazi concentration camps in Sachsenhausen, Natzweiler, and Neuengamme during World War II. Some of the experiments were judged during the Nuremberg Medical Trial (Case I) and French military tribunals at Metz and Lyon after liberation. Based on this evidence and on further archival sources, this paper will examine the preconditions and settings of these experiments, the perpetrators involved, and what is known about their purpose and outcome. Furthermore, the paper will raise the question if and how the experiments in the concentration camps were linked to other experiments conducted in Nazi Germany for the Wehrmacht at military research establishments such as the Gas Protection Laboratory (Heeresgasschutzlaboratorium) in Spandau, the Militärärztliche Akademie, the Heeresversuchsstelle Raubkammer, or by universities. The paper will focus on experiments with chemical agents in German concentration camps and analyze how rivalry and division of labor between the military and the SS in human experimentation with chemical agents went hand in hand.

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Authors & Contributors
Hornblum, Allen M.
Schmaltz, Florian
Weindling, Paul J.
Alexander, Jennifer Karns
Blue, Ethan
Breathnach, Ciara
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
History and Technology
History of Psychology
Medical History
Publishers
Springer International
Cornell University Press
Franz Steiner Verlag
Oxford University Press
Pantheon Books
Pennsylvania State University Press
Concepts
Human experimentation
Prisoners
Science and war; science and the military
Chemical weapons
National Socialism
Concentration camps
People
Kraut, Heinrich
Zimbardo, Philip G.
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Germany
United States
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, U.S.)
Bohemia
Great Britain
Canada
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten
Stanford University
United Nations
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