Overview
- Description
- Medical reports, minutes, statistics, guidance, circulars, registers and correspondence relating to German organization and regulations of medical care (1925-1944): trainings, testing and approvals of employment of medical personnel; cure of diseases through hypnosis, suggestion, and magnetism; demolition of the synagogue Poolstr (1937/38); health surveillance of prisoners of war; medical procedures (abortions, sterilization, castration, miscarriages), the exhibition "People and Race" in the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden (1936) 1941-1942; implementation of the law on the prevention of genetic diseases, the law on German marriages and German Blood Protection Act (1935-1942); various matters of heritage and racial care, guidelines for the evaluation of hereditary health, birth control, maps of births in Germany (1940); principles of interpretation and handling of the law of marriage (1935-1945); Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor (1935-1938); proceedings for members of the Wehrmacht, the SS, the police and the Reich Labor Service in marriage and loan matters; the Administrative Committee of the hospital in Hamburg, Seehospitals Nordheim-Stiftung (5.12.1942 to 18.9.1944); the hospital of the German-Jewish community; regulations concerning the production and distribution of bacteria containing sera (Serum Institut Reute-Enoch, 1929-1935). The collection includes files of individual doctors and name lists of doctors who possibly are Jews.
- Alternate Title
- Medical Council
- Date
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inclusive:
1925-1944
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Circulars. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence. Minutes. Registers. Statistics.
- Extent
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9,717 digital images : JPEG.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Fair use only.
- Copyright Holder
- Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany. Housing--Germany--Hamburg. Jews--Germany--Hamburg--History--20th century. Medical ethics--Government policy--Germany--History--20th century. Medical personnel--Germany--Germany--History--20th century. Jewish physicians--Germany--History--20th century. Race discrimination--Law and legislation--Germany--History--1933-1945. Antisemitism--Germany--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- Geographic Name
- Hamburg (Germany) Germany--Politics and government--20th century.
- Corporate Name
- Nazi Party
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Records originate from the Hamburg State Archive (Staatsarchiv Hamburg). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archival Programs Division received the digitized microfilms in February 2019 from Yad Vashem, Israel, via exchange.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-01 09:16:29
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