TY - BOOK AU - Heath,Tim TI - The Nazi and Japanese Human Experimentation Programmes : : Biological War Crimes during WW2 / SN - 9781399082099 U1 - 940.541352 23 PY - 2024/// CY - Great Britain : PB - PEN & SWORD BOOKS HISTORY, KW - War crimes KW - Japan KW - History KW - Germany KW - World War, KW - 1939-1945 KW - Biological warfare KW - Human experimentation in medicine KW - 20th century N1 - Bibliography : page [168] N2 - Among the most appalling cruelties perpetrated throughout the course of the Second World War was undoubtedly that of human medical and military experimentation conducted upon both living and deceased human beings. The various Nazi human experimentation programmes were initially carried out not so much in the pursuit of any particular scientific discipline, but largely as a result of the Third Reich’s obsession with race and eugenics. However, this criminal sub-discipline of the Nazi fascination, with its warped racial ideologies, was excused as little other than collateral damage by many of the Nazi physicians and their assistants ER -