TY - BOOK AU - Ernst,Edzard ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Hitler’s Female Physicians: Women Doctors During the Third Reich and Their Crimes Against Humanity SN - 9783031739286 AV - D731-838 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Springer KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Medicine KW - History KW - Women KW - History of World War II and the Holocaust KW - History of Medicine KW - Women's History / History of Gender N1 - Part I Medicine’s Descent into Inhumanity -- Chapter 1.Medicine during the Third Reich -- Chapter 2. Female Doctors of the Third Reich.-Chapter 3. Race Hygiene -- Chapter 4 Involuntary Sterilization -- Chapter 5 Involuntary Euthanasia -- Chapter 6 Genocide -- Part II The Women Doctors -- Chapter 7. Albers, Lotte -- Chapter 8. Albrecht, Rosemarie -- Chapter 9. Asam-Bruckmüller, Irene -- Chapter 10. Bauer, Ilse -- Chapter 11. Bensel, Ursula -- Chapter 12 Bluhm, Agnes -- Chapter 13 Eyrich, Hedwig -- Chapter 14 Fauser, Martha -- Chapter 15 Flocken, Erika -- Chapter 16 Hecker, Elisabeth -- Chapter 17 Hermann, Josefine -- Chapter 18 Hielscher, Margarete -- Chapter 19 Hoffmann, Gertrude -- Chapter 20 Hübsch, Margarethe…etc N2 - There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities. Most of these books neglect the contribution of women in the medical profession. In this book, they are the focus of attention. The first section of the book explains the background of the Third Reich in general and medicine during this period in particular. It addresses the situation of female doctors and why there were relatively few of them. It goes on to detail the forms of transgression that occurred under Nazi rule—involuntary sterilization, euthanasia, and mass murder of Jews and other groups considered undesirable. The second part of the book is a collection of 38 alphabetically arranged biographies of individual female doctors who participated in these activities. It reports on the actions they took and what happened to them after the war. The final chapter draws some conclusions, which can be briefly summarized as follows: 1) the female doctors' role remains under-researched, 2) generally speaking, female doctors were also guilty, but their transgressions generally less gruesome than those of their male colleagues, 3) many of the deeds of female doctors are nevertheless shocking UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73928-6 ER -