Series: Deadly Medicine

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to "cleanse" German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's "health." Browse a series of articles about the measures known as racial hygiene or eugenics, the role of medical professionals in Nazi Germany, postwar trials, and subsequent developments in medical ethics such as the Nuremberg Code. 

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

Science as Salvation: Weimar Eugenics, 1919–1933

The Biological State: Nazi Racial Hygiene, 1933–1939

Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4

Final Solutions: Murderous Racial Hygiene, 1939–1945

Nazi Medical Experiments

The Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings

The Nuremberg Code

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