Institute of Anatomy, Medical School Brandenburg, Neuruppin, Germany.
Ann Anat. 2022 Apr;241:151893. doi: 10.1016/j.aanat.2022.151893. Epub 2022 Jan 21.
During the times of National Socialism, Berlin anatomist Hermann Stieve had access to many bodies of executed women for his histological research on reproductive organs. Newly emerged sources add to our knowledge of this research and allow a critical examination of some of Stieve's post-war claims.
Descendants of Stieve have preserved more than 200 dissection protocols in Stieve's own hand, which are now held at the archive of Humboldt University in Berlin. In addition, a list of names of execution victims related to this research has been newly identified at the Federal Archive in Berlin.
The 207 protocols mostly relate to women executed in Berlin Plötzensee from March 1942 onwards and include two women executed after the war in January 1947. Other sources show that bodies of executed men were delivered to the institute of anatomy until November 1950. The documents confirm that Stieve did not use only the bodies of "Schwerverbrecher [felons]" as he had asserted in 1952. They do verify some of Stieve's post war claims, like that he had access to court records of the victims and likely also to information from attending doctors and family members, if only in rare cases.
The anatomists' access to bodies of the executed continued after 1945 as this practice was not seen as something Nazi-typical by the allied authorities. Hermann Stieve's post-war defence strategy can be characterised by an "economic" handling of the truth, avoiding outright lies by making true statements on rare cases which, however, were not representative of his general course of actions.
在纳粹时期，柏林解剖学家赫尔曼·斯蒂夫（Hermann Stieve）在进行生殖器官组织学研究时，得以接触到许多被处决的女性的尸体。新出现的资料增加了我们对这项研究的了解，并允许对斯蒂夫战后的一些主张进行批判性审查。
斯蒂夫的后代保存了 200 多份斯蒂夫本人手写的解剖协议，这些协议现藏于柏林洪堡大学档案馆。此外，在柏林联邦档案馆新发现了一份与这项研究有关的处决受害者名单。
这 207 份协议主要涉及 1942 年 3 月以后在柏林普洛岑塞（Plötzensee）被处决的女性，其中包括两名在 1947 年战后被处决的女性。其他资料显示，被处决的男性尸体一直被送到解剖学研究所，直到 1950 年 11 月。这些文件证实，斯蒂夫并没有像他在 1952 年所声称的那样，只使用“重罪犯”的尸体。这些文件确实证实了斯蒂夫战后的一些主张，例如他可以查阅受害者的法庭记录，而且很可能还可以查阅主治医生和家属的信息，尽管只是在极少数情况下。
1945 年后，解剖学家继续接触被处决者的尸体，因为盟军当局并不认为这种做法具有纳粹典型性。赫尔曼·斯蒂夫战后的辩护策略可以被描述为对真相的“经济”处理，避免完全撒谎，而是在少数真实案例中发表真实陈述，但这些案例并不代表他的一般行为。
