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Lest we forget

DURING the Nazi years some German doctors ignored their Hippocratic oath not to do harm. Instead, in the name of eugenics as interpreted by the Nazi party, they forcibly sterilised their patients and killed sick and disabled people deemed 鈥渦nworthy of life鈥. In the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in occupied Poland, doctors killed prisoners to further their medical research, after using them to test vaccines, and later dissected their brains.

Fortunately for justice, the Nazis shot film of their war crimes.

Now on DVD and video, the series Science and the Swastika skirts the question of whether German drug companies benefited by knowledge acquired by force. But today鈥檚 rescue services do acknowledge that they owe their understanding of the lethal effects of exposure to cold water and decompression to deadly experiments on prisoners in Dachau camp. In the fourth and least gruelling episode, we are shown why Hitler never got an atom bomb.

Science and the Swastika DVD/video of the Channel 4 television series

Sebastian Faulkes

DD Home Entertainment

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