Science and Suffering: Victims and Perpetrators of Nazi Human Experimentation

This online exhibition examines coerced experimentation in Nazi-dominated Europe. Portraits of victims and perpetrators show how widespread and destructive the experiments were. The exhibition explores the legacy of medical research under Nazism and its impact on bioethics and research today.

This is a description of an Online Resource. Online Resources are websites that describe, interpret and provide access to archives. They often provide access to digital content but they may also describe physical materials. They usually cover a theme or topic, such as an individual, a movement, or an important historical event.

This description was created by the Archives Hub team on behalf of the Wiener Library in June 2018.

Access this resource online: https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/science-and-suffering-online.

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This exhibition will be of interest to those studying and teaching the history of the Holocaust and the Nazi era in Europe, as well as those interested in the history of science, experimentation and ethics, particularly in the Third Reich.

Digital images of archival material are accompanied by text offering historical context and discussion of the issues raised by the exhibits.