‘Teach medical students about role of doctors in Nazi atrocities’

Lancet report says learning about medics’ role in the Holocaust could help students develop their own moral reasoning

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November 9, 2023

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November 9, 2023

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Commemoration in the Ebensee concentration camp - The Ebensee concentration camp was a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp in the municipality of Ebensee in Upper Austria. The prisoners in the Ebensee concentration camp were used to drive tunnels

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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by stephen... on November 9, 2023 - 9:19am

Hopefully they do not get buffaloed into endorsing poor quality scholarship arising from this highly censored and politicised area of research.

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