It took more than seventy years for the University of Strasbourg to look into the past of the “Reichsuniversität Strassburg”, a university inaugurated on November 21, 1941 by the Nazis and half of whose students were enrolled in medicine.
"Rather than a duty of memory, Simone Veil preferred to speak of a duty of knowledge and transmission"
, recalled Professor Jean Sibilia, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Strasbourg, before the delivery of the report of nearly 500 pages, co-signed by thirteen experts, to the President of the University of Strasbourg, Michel Deneken.
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“Strasbourg was part of the intensification of the abominable research carried out by the SS”,
underlined Professor Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University), who led the research with his fellow historians of medicine Christian Bonah (Strasbourg) and Florian Schmaltz (Max Planck Institute Berlin).
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