The simplest way to respond to the ethics of physicians, nurses, and healthcare in the Third Reich is to dismiss what happened as the product of marginal practitioners having been granted permission or being coerced by. , ideological leaders fanatical to undertake obviously bad science on hated subjects. minorities. Unfortunately, a huge body of scholarship, starting with my book, When Medicine Gone Mad, shows this story to be utterly false. Doctors and scientists were not trained in Nazism on the fringes. Leading theorists and eminent physicians have enthusiastically fueled the racism that Hitler and his cronies molded into their fascism....