{"id":243676,"date":"2017-07-27T17:07:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=243676\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T17:16:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:16:58","slug":"the-dark-shadow-of-eugenics-in-nazi-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-dark-shadow-of-eugenics-in-nazi-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"The dark shadow of eugenics in Nazi Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National WWII Museum <\/span><\/a> Poster illustrating the alleged superiority of the Aryan raceThe National WWII Museum <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

The Max Planck Society (MPG) has appointed a team of four independent researchers to spend three years investigating crimes committed by its scientists under the Nazi regime. During and after the Third Reich, members of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society \u2013 MPG forerunner \u2013 conducted research using brain tissue samples from mentally disabled people who had been murdered under Hitler\u2019s \u201cracial hygiene\u201d plan. More than 200,000 individuals were killed as part of the Nazi \u201ceuthanasia\u201d program. In 1980, an enormous quantity of tissue samples that had been removed from these victims was found stored in MPG collections; most of the material was then buried.\u00a0 Assigned in January 2017, the panel of experts will analyze records and study remaining samples to recover the history of these victims. \u201cWe want to find out who the victims were and give them part of their human dignity back,\u201d Heinz W\u00e4ssle, director emeritus of the neuroanatomy department at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, told the journal Science<\/em>. Another goal of the investigation is to understand how this research flourished and to what extent the scientists were involved. According to British historian Paul Weindling, panel member, the Nazi euthanasia program has been well researched. \u201cWhat was not reconstructed was that a proportion of victims\u201d \u2014 estimated at 5% \u2014 \u201chad their brains withheld for research.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Society to investigate crimes committed by its scientists in Nazism","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[230,241],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-243676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-ethics","tag-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243676"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=243676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}