Frobenius Wolfgang, Kinzelbach Annemarie, Anthuber Christoph, Dross Fritz
, Luitpoldstr. 17, 91054, Erlangen, Germany,
Arch Gynecol Obstet. 2014 Nov;290(5):925-8. doi: 10.1007/s00404-014-3277-6. Epub 2014 May 20.
Research into the activities of German medical specialist associations during the Nazi period is still in its initial stages even today. In the field of gynecology and obstetrics as well, most representatives of the discipline continued to take an attitude based on "concealment and forgetting", even after the turn of the millennium. In order to break with this approach, the Bavarian Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (Bayerische Gesellschaft für Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde, BGGF) commissioned an interdisciplinary research group to focus on clarifying its Nazi past for the purposes of a history of the institution on the occasion of its centenary.
The research was based on the Society's archive. When the files were found to show conspicuous gaps for the Nazi period, the investigation was extended into the role of BGGF representatives and members who were active at the time. In some cases, it was possible to draw on existing studies and to supplement the available information from additional archival sources.
It was found that the BGGF started at a very early stage to marginalize and ignore its "non-Aryan" members. No official decision to exclude such members was apparently taken, however. Many representatives and honorary members of the society were involved in promoting and carrying out eugenic sterilizations, simultaneously conducting abortions on some victims, and they at least shared responsibility for forced abortions among Ostarbeiterinnen ("Eastern workers", forced laborers from Eastern Europe). Accompanying unethical research that was mainly intended to garner academic prestige for the physicians involved was never discussed at the Society's conferences. Representatives of the Society who were substantially incriminated were able to continue their careers almost without interruption after 1945.
即便在今天，对纳粹时期德国医学专业协会活动的研究仍处于初始阶段。在妇产科领域，即便在千年之交后，该学科的大多数代表仍继续秉持“隐瞒与遗忘”的态度。为了打破这种做法，巴伐利亚妇产科协会（Bayerische Gesellschaft für Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde，BGGF）委托一个跨学科研究小组，在其成立一百周年之际，为机构历史的目的，专注于厘清其纳粹历史。
该研究基于协会的档案。当发现档案在纳粹时期存在明显空白时，调查范围扩大到当时活跃的BGGF代表和成员的角色。在某些情况下，可以借鉴现有研究，并从其他档案来源补充可用信息。
发现BGGF很早就开始边缘化和忽视其“非雅利安”成员。然而，显然没有做出正式决定排除这些成员。该协会的许多代表和名誉成员参与推动和实施优生绝育，同时对一些受害者进行堕胎，并且他们至少对东欧强迫劳工（“东方工人”）中的强制堕胎负有共同责任。主要旨在为相关医生赢得学术声誉的不道德研究，在协会会议上从未被讨论过。在1945年后，那些有重大罪责的协会代表几乎能够毫无间断地继续他们的职业生涯。
