The Nazi War on cancer

U Deichmann

doi:10.1038/46674

The Nazi War on cancer

U Deichmann

Department of Life Sciences

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Abstract

In 1944, at the height of the Second World War, the influential German surgeon and cancer researcher Karl Heinrich Bauer compared the continued use of the synthetic dye known as butter yellow, which had been known to be carcinogenic for some years, to a “human experiment on a massive scale”. This was not a trivial pronouncement. Bauer was one of many leading physicians and health politicians in Nazi Germany who warned of the dangers of carcinogens and other environmental health hazards.

Original language	English
Article number	6752
Pages (from-to)	425-426
Journal	Nature
Volume	401
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/46674
State	Published - 30 Sep 1999

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