Ruth Jolanda Weinberger

Fertility Experiments in Auschwitz-Birkenau

The Perpetrators and Their Victims

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Produktbeschreibung

Fertility Experiments in Auschwitz-Birkenau: The
Perpetrators and Their Victims offers a historical
examination of fertility experiments conducted by
the Nazis. This dissertation tells the story of both
the victims and perpetrators, often in their own
words.
Drawing on material that has only recently become
available, this dissertation emphasizes the
subjective dimension of fertility experiments by
focusing on how the victims experienced the
procedures and on how the perpetrators justified
their crimes.
Through in-depth analysis of testimonies made over
the last 60 years from witness statements at the
Nuremberg Doctors Trial in 1947 to statements made
for compensation programs such as the Claims
Conference s recently closed Fund for Victims of
Medical Experiments and Other Injuries, as well
interviews conducted specifically for this
dissertation Fertility Experiments in Auschwitz-
Birkenau aims toportray the life of the victims
and perpetrators of Nazi fertility experiments
during and after Auschwitz.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Deutsch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9783838102474
• ISBN-10: 3838102479
• Artikelnr.: 25898292

Autorenporträt

Ruth Jolanda Weinberger received a doctorate in history from the
University of Vienna. She is the former assistant director of a
fund for victims of medical experiments at the Claims
Conference, where she has worked since 2000. She has also
served as a researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for
Historical Social Studies.