Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Faculdade de Medicina, Cascavel PR, Brazil.
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Neurologia, São Paulo SP, Brazil.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2021 Jan;79(1):84-87. doi: 10.1590/0004-282X-anp-2020-0274.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy whose initial description is associated with two German authors, Alfons Maria Jakob and Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt. As polemic as the issue about the Creutzfeldt's merit in the first description of the disease, is his history during the Third Reich. Some evidence pointed to the idea that he was essentially against the Nazi ideology, though some did not. He was an official member of the SS, but his own wife was convicted by a Nazi court. Some authors have argued that Creutzfeldt helped save many patients during Aktion T4 operation, but, in fact, he could have done more. Even during the post-war period, he sent a letter to authorities reporting the name of a Nazi physician who worked as a medical reviewer at the euthanasia court, but he did not proceed any further when his letter initially failed to start an investigation.
克雅氏病（CJD）是一种传染性海绵状脑病，其最初的描述与两位德国作者阿尔方斯·玛丽亚·雅各布（Alfons Maria Jakob）和汉斯·格哈德·克赖茨菲尔德（Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt）有关。尽管关于克赖茨菲尔德在首次描述该疾病方面的功绩存在争议，但他在第三帝国期间的历史却存在争议。有一些证据表明他本质上反对纳粹意识形态，但也有一些证据并非如此。他是党卫军的正式成员，但他的妻子被纳粹法庭定罪。一些作者认为，克赖茨菲尔德在“T4 行动”中帮助拯救了许多患者，但实际上，他本可以做得更多。即使在战后时期，他也写信给当局，报告了一名在安乐死法庭担任医疗审查员的纳粹医生的名字，但当他的信最初未能启动调查时，他没有进一步采取行动。
