Institute of Anatomy, Brandenburg Medical School, Fehrbelliner Str. 38, 16816, Neuruppin, Germany.
Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, Brandenburg Medical School, Potsdam, Germany.
Arch Gynecol Obstet. 2022 Oct;306(4):1287-1298. doi: 10.1007/s00404-022-06664-4. Epub 2022 Aug 8.
Hermann Stieve (1886-1952), director of the Berlin Anatomical Institute from 1935, benefited from the rise of execution numbers during the "Third Reich". He used organs and tissues from executed women for his histological research on the reproductive organs and investigated the influence of "nervous agitation" on the cyclical changes of endometrium and ovary. It is still controversial how he was able to acquire intimate data on the executed women and it was therefore suggested that some of his data may have been "invented".
Newly emerged dissection protocols and histological drawings from Stieve's research, together with archived court records, enable a more detailed analysis of Stieve's published data.
We extracted 304 case descriptions from Stieve's publications. Of these, 88 could be linked with 33 identifiable women and related historical records. Nearly all reported causes of death and/or verdicts of executed women were false. Reported clinical data, particularly the day of the menstrual cycle and uterine bleeding shortly before death, are more difficult to verify. We found non-standardised documentation and possible confusions of cases, which may in part be attributable to war effects.
Stieve actively concealed the fate of the executed women, mostly by inventing imaginary stories. This followed a request by the German and Soviet authorities after 1945 not to publish results from cases of political victims, but only from "dangerous criminals". Scientifically relevant clinical data were not always reported correctly, but are not necessarily fraudulent as different interpretations of this finding can be suggested.
柏林解剖研究所所长赫尔曼·斯蒂夫（1886-1952 年）在 1935 年之后从处决人数的上升中获益。他将被处决女性的器官和组织用于他对生殖器官的组织学研究，并研究“神经紧张”对子宫内膜和卵巢周期性变化的影响。他是如何获得被处决女性的私密数据仍存在争议，因此有人认为他的一些数据可能是“编造的”。
斯蒂夫研究中的新出现的解剖方案和组织学图纸，以及存档的法庭记录，使我们能够更详细地分析斯蒂夫发表的数据。
我们从斯蒂夫的出版物中提取了 304 个案例描述。其中，88 个可以与 33 名可识别的女性和相关历史记录联系起来。几乎所有报告的被处决女性的死因和/或判决都是虚假的。报告的临床数据，特别是月经周期的日期和死亡前不久的子宫出血，更难核实。我们发现了非标准化的记录和可能的案例混淆，这部分可能归因于战争的影响。
斯蒂夫积极隐瞒被处决女性的命运，主要是通过编造虚构的故事。这是在 1945 年后德国和苏联当局的要求下做出的，即不要公布政治受害者案件的结果，而只公布“危险罪犯”的结果。并非所有科学相关的临床数据都能被正确报告，但不一定是欺诈性的，因为可以提出对这一发现的不同解释。
