Doctors Under Hitler

by Michael H. Kater

In this history of medicine and the medical profession in the Third Reich, Michael Kater examines the career patterns, educational training, professional organization, and political socialization of German physicians under Hitler. His discussion ranges widely, from doctors who participated in Nazi atrocities, to those who actively resisted the regime's perversion of healing, to the vast majority whose ideology and behavior fell somewhere between the two extremes. He also takes a chilling look at the post-Hitler medical establishment's problematic relationship to the Nazi past.

Genres: History, World War II, Health

440 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Richard Smith]

Chilling. Blog to follow, I hope.

[Matt]

I used this book as another element of my senior research paper. Particularly revealing was Kater's analysis of the process of Gleihschaltung, also known as the Fuhrer principle, that affected the state of German medicine and doctors. Excellent book and very engaging.