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The behavior of psychiatrists in Nazi Germany was symptomatic of crimes that were perpetrated. Violating their sacred Hippocratic oath, these “doctors of infamy” killed hospitalized patients they had sworn to care for. Their crimes represented the culmination of a long political process through which German psychiatry and medicine were deliberately demoralized. Aspects of similar processes exist in contemporary America. They can be found in other countries also, such as the Soviet Union, but problems there will not be discussed here, since they have been considered elsewhere [1].
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Lehrman, N.S. (1986). The Prostitution of Psychiatry: The 1930s in Germany and the 1980s in America. In: Carmi, A., Schneider, S., Hefez, A. (eds) Psychiatry — Law and Ethics. Medicolegal Library, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82574-3_2
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