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

活跃在国家社会主义集中营的党卫军医生群体的集体传记是这里提出的项目的目标。这是第一次，通过系统的史学-实证研究，将这一执行纳粹种族灭绝政策的关键群体作为一个整体来处理。作为第一步，在确定目标群体进入集中营之前的社会概况，确定他们的职业生涯，审查他们的动机模式和基本心态，分析他们在集中营内的决策选择，从而加深对国家社会主义年代的医生和医学仍然粗略的了解。学术精英的成员，党卫军医生从德国社会中崛起--这项研究的第二部分必须问他们是否以及如何回到战后国家的这一特权地位。哪些决定性因素、机制和网络推动了他们重新融入东德和西德？这些男性和女性的犯罪历史和实际存在带来的挑战是如何处理的？在两个德国战后社会中，这个项目写下了与这个定义明确的专业群体达成协议的双重历史，开创了医学史的这一重要篇章，同时也为Verangenheitsbewältigung的学术研究提供了一个范例。因此，拟议的集体传记方法不仅仅是对传记数据的重建，而且是对广泛问题的有利切入点：可以仔细审查思维模式、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上的连续性和变化。拟议的集体传记有助于德国当代史学的结构性挑战，即将其三根弦--第一次世界大战至1945年的发展以及BRD和民主德国的历史--捆绑在一起，形成一个关系框架。

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.