Julius Hallervorden’s wartime activities: Implications for science under dictatorship

Shevell, Michael; Peiffer, J.

doi:10.1016/s0887-8994(00)00243-5

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“…Stieve seized the opportunity the times offered him without questioning the dubious source of his research material. In this respect, his actions are comparable to those of the Viennese anatomist Eduard Pernkopf (Angetter, 2000), and the neuropathologist Julius Hallervorden, who researched the brains of Nazi ''euthanasia'' victims (Shevell and Peiffer, 2001).…”

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Hermann Stieve's clinical‐anatomical research on executed women during the “Third Reich”

Winkelmann

Schagen

2009

Clinical Anatomy

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Hermann Stieve (1886–1952) was Director of the Berlin Institute of Anatomy from 1935 to 1952. His research on the female reproductive system is controversial, as some of his scientific insights derived from histological investigations on the genital organs of executed women. These investigations were made possible by the sharp increase in executions during the “Third Reich.” Stieve's research was methodologically accurate and contributed significantly to contemporary scientific debates. Nevertheless, his use of the organs of execution victims, some of them resistance fighters, benefited from the Nazi justice system. He thus indirectly supported this system of injustice. The allegation, however, that Stieve “ordered” the death of prison inmates according to their menstrual cycle, appears to be incorrect. An appraisal of Stieve's research should avoid traditional black‐and‐white classifications of research during Nazi times. In our opinion, Stieve was neither a murderer nor a fervent Nazi. Nevertheless, his research results were flawed by their ethical and political context. Stieve will remain a somber footnote in the biographies of many execution victims. Clin. Anat. 22:163–171, 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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Hermann Stieve's clinical‐anatomical research on executed women during the “Third Reich”

Winkelmann

Schagen

2009

Clinical Anatomy

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“…Initially it was termed as Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome after the investigators originally described it [2]. This name has, however, since been discouraged due to the admissions of both investigators in using brains of executed prisoners in Nazi war camps [3]. Diagnostic criteria including onset in the first three decades, progression of symptoms and signs, extra-pyramidal dysfunction, and T2 weighted MRI brain features of bilateral anteromedial hyperintensity surrounded by a region of hypointensity in the medial globus pallidus (eye-of-the-tiger sign) have been proposed [1].…”

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Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation in an Eleven-Year-Old Jamaican Male

Johnson

Melbourne-Chambers

Desai

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We present a case of an eleven-year-old boy presenting with progressive extrapyramidal signs and dementia. His imaging findings demonstrated the classic eye-of-the-tiger sign on T2W magnetic resonance imaging. He was diagnosed with pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN). This is a rare autosomal recessive inborn error of coenzyme A metabolism, caused by mutations in PANK2. This is the first reported case of PKAN from the Caribbean.

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“…For example, Hallervorden's syndrome describing a paediatric neuron-degenerative disorder was been obtained from working in the Nazi program of active euthanasia. Shevell and Peiffer (2001) prove that many of Hallervorden's post-war scientific publications used material obtained through that euthanasia program.…”

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Eponymy for research evaluation: Spanish cases from the educational field

Cano¹,

Fernández-Guerrero²

2003

Res. Eval.

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Julius Hallervorden’s wartime activities: Implications for science under dictatorship

Cited by 38 publications

References 9 publications

Hermann Stieve's clinical‐anatomical research on executed women during the “Third Reich”

Hermann Stieve's clinical‐anatomical research on executed women during the “Third Reich”

Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation in an Eleven-Year-Old Jamaican Male

Eponymy for research evaluation: Spanish cases from the educational field

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