L’institution médicale allemande et l’holocauste : Un aide — mémoire À l’occasion du 60’anniversarie de la libération d’Auschwitz

The aim of this essay is to remind us, in retrospect of 60 years, of the active part taken by German health professionals in unparalleled crimes. To comprehend the history of the acceptance by the German medical community - one of the most advanced and respected of the time - of the Nazi ideology and to serve it, is one of the most perplexing in the history of the holocaust. It is not the intention of this short article to comprehensively analyse the scope and brutality of the Nazi physicians but only to serve as a brief reminder as we just commemorated the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz - Birkenau death camp on January 27, 1945, 60 years ago.