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The medical code of ethics under a totalitarian regime: The German dentists during the Third Reich

Xavier Riaud

Out of the 90, 000 doctors that practised in Germany under the Third Reich, about 350 committed medical crimes. In 1939, out of the 16, 300 dentists with a diploma, no more than a hundred were working in concentration camps; administrative dentists included. Who are they? What about the famous medical code published in Nuremberg in 1947? Which role for the dentists in this medical code of ethics? .