School of Humanities, University of New England, Armidale, and University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Anatomical Pathologist, Laverty pathology Inst., Sydney, Australia.
Isr Med Assoc J. 2021 Mar;23(3):160-164.
Germany was a scientifically advanced country in the 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in medicine, with a major interest in research and the treatment of tuberculosis. From 1933 until 1945, Nazi Germany perverted scientific research through criminal experimentations on captured prisoners of war and on "subhumans" by scientifically untrained, but politically driven, staff. This article exposes a series of failed experiments on tuberculosis in adults, experiments without scientific validity. Nonetheless, Dr. Kurt Heißmeyer repeated the experiment on Jewish children, who were murdered for the sake of personal academic ambition. It is now 75 years since liberation and the murdered children must be remembered. This observational review raises questions of medical and ethical values.
德国在 19 世纪和 20 世纪初是一个科学先进的国家，特别是在医学领域，对结核病的研究和治疗有着浓厚的兴趣。从 1933 年到 1945 年，纳粹德国通过对被俘的战俘和“非人类”进行犯罪实验，使科学研究发生了扭曲，这些实验是由未经科学训练但受政治驱动的人员进行的。本文揭露了一系列在成年人中进行的、没有科学有效性的结核病失败实验。尽管如此，库尔特·海斯迈尔博士还是在犹太儿童身上重复了这个实验，这些儿童是为了个人的学术野心而被谋杀的。现在距离解放已经过去了 75 年，必须记住这些被谋杀的孩子。这项观察性回顾提出了医学和伦理价值观的问题。
