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Aviation Atrocities

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German physiologists and biochemists gravitated towards aviation medicine as it offered unrivalled opportunities to test the human metabolism’s ability to withstand extreme conditions. Allied investigators were confronted with the conundrum of whether the German researchers were patriots who had placed their skills at the service of the war effort, unscrupulous seekers after scientific truth or zealots serving racial ends. German scientists claimed that war service with the Wehrmacht or Luftwaffe was a way of evading the Party and SS. Countering these excuses was the evidence of a depraved and debased science.

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Weindling, P.J. (2004). Aviation Atrocities. In: Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230506053_6

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