[Between research and genocide. The Nuremberg physician trials 1946/47: Raphael Lemkins point of view on human experimentation and genocide].

Abstract

While the significance of the new concept of genocide, as introduced by the Polish émigré jurist Raphael Lemkin, has been recognised, its importance for the Nuremberg Medical Trial has been overlooked. Lemkin commented extensively on the Trial, and his views are presented here. These comments help illuminate a neglected facet of the Trial, that of eugenics and racial extermination, taken at the time as amounting to genocide. Far from neglecting eugenics as some have suggested, the eugenic component of the Trial was extensive.