RE: Neuroscience in nazi europe part I: Eugenics, human experimentation, and mass murder

摘要

As the author of this article, I wanted to make a small annotation to "Table 1. Neuroscientists who collaborated in the Nazi euthanasia programs or performed other experiments on humans." It is mentioned in the table regarding Hugo Spatz, Hans Joachim Scherer, and Willibald Oscar Scholz that they "actively acquired and researched brains from euthanasia victims," similar to Julius Hallervorden. There certainly is evidence that Hallervorden may have initiated and was "active" in the acquisition of brains from mentally ill patients murdered in the Nazi "euthanasia" programs during World War II. He is quoted in an interview after the war as stating, "I heard that they were going to do that, and so I went up to them and told them, 'Look here now, boys. If you are going to kill all those people, at least take the brains out so that the material can be utilized.' They asked me, 'How many can you examine?' And so I told them, 'An unlimited number - the more the better.' There was wonderful material among those brains, beautiful mental defectives, malformations and early infantile diseases. I accepted the brains, of course. Where they came from and how they came to me was really none of my business." Hugo Spatz was director of the institute where Hallervorden worked, and tried to cover up Hallervorden's and the institution's involvement. There is also evidence that Spatz's own laboratory studied 105 brains from various hospitals and clinics that were either certainly or very probably from "euthanasia" victims as well.