Systemic Disorder
Doctors and Patients in Nazi Germany
The daughter of a Jewish doctor describes the day his office sign is taken down. (4:14 Min.)
The daughter of a Jewish doctor talks about her father’s arrest as a politically progressive physician and the family’s subsequent emigration. (5:39 Min.)
Pedro Wolfgang Bamberg describes the persecution of his physician grandfather, the family’s emigration to Argentina, and their return to Berlin in the 1960s. (8:57 Min.)
The son of a Jewish dermatologist talks about his family’s exile and the murder of his parents by the Nazis. (2:55 Min.)
The historian Amir Theilhaber speaks about his grandfather Dr Felix A. Theilhaber, and his life as a physician, sexual reformer, and Zionist. (8:44 Min.)
The daughter of a Jewish dermatologist discovers his Jewish heritage only when the Nazis revoke her father’s medical licence. (7:46 Min.)
Hans Engel’s parents, a pair of Jewish-German doctors, are forced to leave Hamburg and start over again in the USA. (4:14 Min.)
A Jewish-German doctor joins the British army to fight the Nazis and helps with the liberation of Sandbostel POW camp. (6:57 Min.)
The son of a Jewish doctor describes his father’s defiance in the face of Nazi oppression and his eventual emigration to Israel. (8:43 Min.)
After Dr Alfred Strauss is detained at Sachsenhausen in the wake of Kristallnacht, his son Edgar is sent to safety in England. (5:56 Min.)
Only as an adult, long after the war, does H. P. learn about her mother’s forced sterilization during the Nazi era. (3:31 Min.)
Imprisoned at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, the seventeen-year-old Klaus Reichmuth survives with the help of Communist prisoners and a Polish inmate orderly. (11:44 Min.)
Ingrid Wecker traces the arc of discrimination and medical persecution leading to her father’s murder at the Sonnenstein killing facility. (15:30 Min.)
Fritz Niemand talks about his forced sterilization and his battle for official recognition. (14:55 Min.)