@article{ref1,
title="50 years ago: the Nuremberg Doctors' Tribunal. Part 1: The descent towards medicalised murder",
journal="Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift",
year="1996",
author="Ernst, E.",
volume="146",
number="21-22",
pages="574-576",
abstract="This series of four parts is an attempt to summarise some aspects of medicine during the Third Reich. Its aim is not to provide a systematic review but to remind us of this darkest chapter in the history of medicine and its consequences. The paper summarises the complex evolution of &quot;race hygiene&quot; during the Third Reich and tries to show how politics were medicalised by this idea. On the basis of &quot;race hygiene&quot;, involuntary sterilisation was a first step followed by involuntary euthanasia of (mostly) handicapped psychiatric patients. The know-how acquired during these activities was used in the &quot;Final Solution&quot;. It presented a level of medical barbarism only to be exceeded by criminal medical research conducted in some concentration camps.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0043-5341",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}