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On Using Nazi Data: The Case Against

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Arthur Schafer
Arthur Schafer
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University of Manitoba
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The weather can be very cold at Dachau concentration camp, but Dachau was apparently not cold enough for some Nazi purposes. A camp doctor named Rascher wrote to Heinrich Himmler in February 1943, asking to be transferred to Auschwitz to continue his experiments—which involved freezing live prisoners. The letter reads: “Auschwitz is more suitable [than Dachau] as it is colder there and the camp itself is much larger, thereby attracting less attention to the test persons, who tend to scream while freezing.”

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1986 , pp. 413 - 419
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1986

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References

1 Moe, Kristine, “Should the Nazi Research Data Be Cited?”, Hastings Center Report (12 1984)Google Scholar.

2 Ibid., 5.

3 Beecher, Henry K., “Ethics and Clinicial Research”, New England Journal of Medicine 274 (1966), 1354–1360.CrossRefGoogle Scholar