Pharmacological procedures against women during the Shoah: the victims of Block 10 in Auschwitz1 Paul Weindling
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Pryzpis do tytułu1 lock 10 in Auschwitz was for chemical sterilisation research, and was wholly for Jewish women. The Nazi gynaecologist and hormone researcher Carl Clauberg conducted inter-uterine injections with different mixtures
of formalin-based liquid to seal the Fallopian tubes. X‑rays with a contrast solution
About the author: Paul J. Weindling, PhD, is Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine, School of History, Philosophy and Culture at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Oxford Brookes University, UK. He worked at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford (1978–1998). After graduation from the University of Oxford, he earned an MSc and PhD at University College London. He was a member of the Max-PlanckGesellschaft President’s Committee for the History of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft under National Socialism (1999–2004) and worked for the Advisory Boards of the AHRC project on German-Jewish refugees, and on the history of the Robert Koch Institute and was a member on the advisory board of the German Society for Psychiatry project on psychiatrists in Nazi Germany, and a member of the project on the history of the German Foundation for Memory, Responsibility and the Future. He is currently a Director of the project of the Max Planck Society on the provenance of brain specimens from the Nazi era. He is a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences. He has advised the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Swiss Research Council, and other national funding agencies. He is a Trustee of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA).
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I am grateful for funding from the Conference for Material Claims Against Germany in collaboration with Prof. Peggy Kleinplatz, Ottawa.