Neuroscience in Nazi Europe Part III: Victims of the Third Reich

作者:Zeidman Lawrence A*; Kondziella Daniel
来源:Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2012, 39(6): 729-746.
DOI:10.1017/s0317167100015559

摘要

In Part 1, neuroscience collaborators with the Nazis were discussed, and in Part II, neuroscience resistors were discussed. In Part III, we discuss the tragedy regarding European neuroscientists who became victims of the Nazi onslaught on "Non-Aryan" doctors. Some of these unfortunate neuroscientists survived Nazi concentration camps, but most were murdered. We discuss the circumstances and environment which stripped these neuroscientists of their profession, then of their personal rights and freedom, and then of their lives. We include a background analysis of anti-Semitism and Nazism in their various countries, then discuss in depth seven exemplary neuroscientist Holocaust victims; including Germans Ludwig Pick, Arthur Simons, and Raphael Weichbrodt, Austrians Alexander Spitzer and Viktor Frankl, and Poles Lucja Frey and Wladyslaw Sterling. By recognizing and remembering these victims of neuroscience, we pay homage and do not allow humanity to forget, lest this dark period in history ever repeat itself.

  • 出版日期2012-11