Collective biographies of concentration-camps physicians.Careers in National Socialism and in after-war societies of the Federal Republic and the GDR

集中营医生的集体传记。国家社会主义以及德意志联邦共和国和东德战后社会的职业生涯

• 批准号: 230125556
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Leven
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Medizin
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-31 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/230125556?language=en
• 关键词: Collective; biographies; concentration; camps; physicians.Careers

The collective biography of the group of SS physicians active in national socialist concentration camps is the objective of the project here proposed. For the first time, this key group in implementing nazi genocidal policies is tackled as a whole by systematic historiographical-empirical study. As a first step, a social profile of the target group before their involvement in concentration camps is established, their occupational careers ascertained, their motivational patterns and underlying mentalities examined and their options for decision making inside concentration camps analysed, thus furthering the still sketchy understanding of physicians and medicine in the national socialist years. Members of the academic elite, SS physicians rose from the midst of German society - it has to be asked in the second part of this study if and how they returned to this priviledged position in the post-war states. Which determining factors, mechanisms and networks advanced their reintegration into East and West Germany? How were the challenges handled posed by both criminal past and factual presence of these men and women? In writing the two-fold history of coming to terms with this well defined professional group in both German post-war societies this project pioneers this important chapter of medical history and, at the same time, provides the academic study of Vergangenheitsbewältigung with an paradigmatic example.Thus, the proposed methodology of collective biography exceeds mere reconstruction of biographical data and serves as vantage point for a wide-ranging scope of questions: the determinative influences and limits of ideological patterns of thought, changing social frameworks and power matrices can be scrutinized. Furthermore, continuities as well as changes at this crucial turning point of German history can be better understood. The proposed collective biography can contribute to the constitutive challenge of German contemporary historiography to bind together its three strings - the developments after World War I to 1945 and the histories of both the BRD and GDR - into one relational framework.

在纳粹集中营中活跃的党卫军医生群体的集体传记是这里提出的项目的目标。第一次，这一关键群体在实施纳粹种族灭绝政策是作为一个整体，系统的史学经验研究。作为第一步，确定了目标群体在被关进集中营之前的社会概况，查明了他们的职业生涯，审查了他们的动机模式和基本心态，分析了他们在集中营内的决策选择，从而加深了对国家社会主义时期医生和医学的仍然粗略的了解。作为学术精英的成员，党卫队医生从德国社会中崛起--在本研究的第二部分，我们必须问他们是否以及如何回到战后各州的这一特权地位。哪些决定因素、机制和网络推动了他们重新融入东、西德德国？如何应对这些男女的犯罪历史和实际存在所带来的挑战？在撰写与德国战后社会中这个定义明确的专业群体达成协议的双重历史时，该项目开创了医学史的这一重要篇章，同时为Vergangenheitsbewältigung的学术研究提供了一个范例。所提出的集体传记的方法论不仅仅是重建传记资料，而且是一个广泛的Vantage位置，范围广泛的问题：可以审视思想意识形态模式、不断变化的社会框架和权力矩阵的决定性影响和限制。此外，可以更好地理解德国历史这一关键转折点的连续性和变化。所提出的集体传记可以有助于德国当代史学的构成性挑战，将其三根弦--第一次世界大战后至1945年的发展以及BRD和GDR的历史--捆绑在一起，形成一个关系框架。