Eckart, W. U./Neumann, A. (Hrsg.) Medizin im Zweiten Weltkrieg

Military medical practice and medical science in the "Total War". Volume 30 of the series "War in History". The "total war" waged by the Nazi leadership and the Wehrmacht also required special efforts from medicine. This concerned, on the one hand, military medical practice in the military hospitals and the facilities of the German medical service, and, on the other hand, medical science, which was able to draw on extensive resources in the "mass experiment of war" without having to take ethical or moral limits into consideration. The volume comprises works on these two aspects. It sheds light on areas that have so far been neglected in research. It shows, for example, that in military medical practice, essential elements of Nazi ideology helped to determine the actions of physicians. In addition, he contrasts the often still prevailing image of the brutal, sadistic scientist with the "normality" of the "willing physicians". These usually met the expectations placed in them in order to be able to continue their research. In order to be able to better classify the particularities of German military medicine, the international perspective of medical science and military medicine is also taken into account.