"Hippocrates in hell" by Jean-Pierre Devillers
Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 7:30 pm
France, documentary, 80 mn, Pulsation Productions, written by Michel Cymes and Claire Feinstein, 2017.
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From 1933 to 1945, medical research occupied a privileged place within the Third Reich. To validate its ideology, based on the classification of races, Nazism needs medicine and its practitioners. More than 70% of German doctors answered this call, a commitment that cost the lives of thousands of deportees used as guinea pigs. Grandson of deportees, the author retraces the journey of some of these doctors and seeks to understand how those who, like him, took the Hippocratic oath, could have committed such atrocities.
