'Hippocrate in hell' by Jean-Pierre Devillers
Thursday 12 July 2018 at 7:30 PM
France, documentary, 80 min, 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 respond to this call. A commitment that costs the lives of several thousand deportees used as guinea pigs. Grandson of deportees, the author traces the journey of some of these doctors and seeks to understand how those who, like him, have taken the oath of Hippocrates, could commit such atrocities.
