Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust
- Submitting institution
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Oxford Brookes University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 185739687
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.5040/9781474211185
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781441195319
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The monograph examines Nazi-coerced experiments in concentration camps, clinics, and other overlooked locations. It reconstructs biographies of 28142 victims, establishing who survived, were killed in experiments or died as a result of injuries. It analyses different victim groups: prisoners of war, psychiatric patients, Roma, and Jews in Auschwitz. A relational database detailing the victims, perpetrators and the experiments was deposited at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Drawing on a wide range of archives, particularly Arolsen Archives/International Tracing Service, to identify concentration camp prisoners. It developed life-history methodology to reconstruct victim lives and specimens retained in post-war Germany and Austria.
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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