SS doctors
E573017
SS doctors were Nazi physicians in the Schutzstaffel who conducted selections, medical experiments, and other atrocities in concentration and extermination camps during the Holocaust.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SS medical service | 1 |
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi physicians
ⓘ
perpetrators of the Holocaust ⓘ war criminals ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Adolf Hitler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliedDoctrine |
anti-Semitic ideology
ⓘ
eugenics ⓘ racial hygiene ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Nazi medical institutes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SS guards NERFINISHED ⓘ camp commandants ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Nazi Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
SS Main Economic and Administrative Office
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SS Main Office for Race and Settlement NERFINISHED ⓘ SS-Totenkopfverbände NERFINISHED ⓘ Waffen-SS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | Nazism ⓘ |
| legacy |
central example in discussions of informed consent and human experimentation ethics
ⓘ
symbol of medical ethics violations ⓘ |
| notableFor |
experiments on twins
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forced sterilization experiments ⓘ freezing experiments ⓘ gas chamber supervision ⓘ high-altitude experiments ⓘ infectious disease experiments ⓘ inhumane medical experiments on prisoners ⓘ participation in Aktion T4-style killing methods extended to camps ⓘ participation in mass murder ⓘ poison experiments ⓘ selection of prisoners for forced labor or death ⓘ signing death certificates with falsified causes of death ⓘ surgical mutilation without anesthesia ⓘ |
| operatedAt |
Auschwitz concentration camp
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Belzec extermination camp NERFINISHED ⓘ Buchenwald concentration camp NERFINISHED ⓘ Chelmno extermination camp NERFINISHED ⓘ Dachau concentration camp NERFINISHED ⓘ Majdanek concentration and extermination camp NERFINISHED ⓘ Mauthausen concentration camp NERFINISHED ⓘ Ravensbrück concentration camp NERFINISHED ⓘ Sobibor extermination camp NERFINISHED ⓘ Treblinka extermination camp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
concentration camps
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extermination camps ⓘ ghettos ⓘ labor camps ⓘ |
| partOf | Schutzstaffel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| persecutedGroup |
Jehovah's Witnesses
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ Poles ⓘ Roma and Sinti NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet prisoners of war ⓘ disabled people ⓘ homosexuals ⓘ other groups deemed “racially inferior” ⓘ political prisoners ⓘ |
| role |
camp physicians
ⓘ
consultants for racial policy ⓘ medical administrators in camps ⓘ researchers for SS and Wehrmacht institutes ⓘ |
| someMembersConvictedOf |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
murder ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| someMembersTriedAt |
Nuremberg Doctors' Trial
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
subsequent war crimes trials in various countries ⓘ |
| supervised |
camp infirmaries used as killing sites
ⓘ
killing of sick or weak prisoners ⓘ selections on arrival ramps ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Holocaust
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
SS medical service