Science and the Swastika
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Science and the Swastika

Evil is the only known result.

2001
1 season
4 episodes
Documentary

Four-part series on science in the Third Reich and its role in Nazi ideology and crimes. Series examining science and morality during the Third Reich; the practice of eugenics and euthanasia in Nazi occupied Europe.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Hitler's Biological Soldiers

    19-03-200149m

    Looks at the role of doctors in Nazi Germany and how many of them willingly took part in eugenics and euthanasia in the 1930s and 1940s, thus betraying the fundamental tenets of th...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Deadly Experiment

    26-03-200149m

    Considers the work carried out by Nazi doctors in the concentration camps where they used inmates for experiments in their gynaecological and genetic research. Looks at people such...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Wrong Stuff

    02-04-200149m

    Looks at how after the Second World War the American military recruited dozens of German scientists. Amongst them was Professor Hubertus Strughold whose subsequent development of s...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Good German

    09-04-200149m

    Why did the Germans, the most advanced scientific nation, fail to build a nuclear bomb during the War? In late 1938 a Berlin scientist, Otto Hahn, discovered nuclear fission. Werne...

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