Introduction: An Old Legend and a New Legacy
Introduction: An Old Legend and a New Legacy
This chapter discusses the theme of this book, which is the “Faustian bargain” made by biomedical professionals in Germany with the officials of the Nazi state. The book examines why and how this deal was negotiated and explores its ethical and professional consequences for the biomedical practitioners, as well as its political ramifications for the institutionalization of Nazi racial policies. It also shows how important members of the German human genetics community functioned not only during the peak genocidal years of the regime, but also within the social, economic, and political contexts of the early years of the Third Reich.
Keywords: biomedical professionals, Faustian bargain, Nazi state, Germany, racial policies, human genetics, genocidal years, Third Reich
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