Ernst E
Postgraduate Medical School, Department for Complementary Medicine, University of Exeter, United Kingdom.
Wien Med Wochenschr. 1997;147(2):53-4.
After the sentences at the Nuremberg Doctors' Tribunal, the German and Austrian medical profession tried to avoid the subject of medicine during the Third Reich at almost any cost. Only under persistent pressure did the subject gradually became a topic for more open discussion. many of the perpetrators within the ranks of the medical profession were not properly punished and were allowed to remain members of the profession. The German and Austrian medical profession may have forfeited the chance to learn an important lesson relating to its own past.
在纽伦堡医生审判案的判决之后,德国和奥地利的医学界几乎不惜一切代价试图回避第三帝国时期医学的话题。只有在持续的压力下,这个话题才逐渐成为更公开讨论的主题。医学界内部的许多作恶者没有得到应有的惩罚,并且被允许继续留在医学界。德国和奥地利的医学界可能已经失去了从自身过去中吸取重要教训的机会。