Medical Council 352-3 Medizinalkollegium
Extent and Medium
9,717 digital images, JPEG
Archival History
Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)
Acquisition
Records originate from the Hamburg State Archive (Staatsarchiv Hamburg). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archival Programs Division received the digitized microfilms in February 2019 from Yad Vashem, Israel, via exchange.
Scope and Content
Medical reports, minutes, statistics, guidance, circulars, registers and correspondence relating to German organization and regulations of medical care (1925-1944): trainings, testing and approvals of employment of medical personnel; cure of diseases through hypnosis, suggestion, and magnetism; demolition of the synagogue Poolstr (1937/38); health surveillance of prisoners of war; medical procedures (abortions, sterilization, castration, miscarriages), the exhibition "People and Race" in the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden (1936) 1941-1942; implementation of the law on the prevention of genetic diseases, the law on German marriages and German Blood Protection Act (1935-1942); various matters of heritage and racial care, guidelines for the evaluation of hereditary health, birth control, maps of births in Germany (1940); principles of interpretation and handling of the law of marriage (1935-1945); Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor (1935-1938); proceedings for members of the Wehrmacht, the SS, the police and the Reich Labor Service in marriage and loan matters; the Administrative Committee of the hospital in Hamburg, Seehospitals Nordheim-Stiftung (5.12.1942 to 18.9.1944); the hospital of the German-Jewish community; regulations concerning the production and distribution of bacteria containing sera (Serum Institut Reute-Enoch, 1929-1935). The collection includes files of individual doctors and name lists of doctors who possibly are Jews.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
Subjects
- Jewish physicians--Germany--History--20th century.
- Medical ethics--Government policy--Germany--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
- Medical personnel--Germany--Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany--Politics and government--20th century.
- Antisemitism--Germany--20th century.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- Housing--Germany--Hamburg.
- Jews--Germany--Hamburg--History--20th century.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--Germany--History--1933-1945.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Statistics.
- Circulars.
- Document
- Minutes.
- Registers.