TY - JOUR T1 - German medical group: Apology for nazi physicians’ actions, warning for future AU - Livingston EH Y1 - 2012/08/15 N1 - 10.1001/jama.2012.9649 JO - JAMA SP - 657 EP - 658 VL - 308 IS - 7 N2 - The accounts of these crimes are horrific. One series of medical experiments at Dachau, for example, involved placing prisoners in chambers to simulate the effects of exposure to extremely high altitudes and caused severe injury, including death. In addition to experimentation, German physicians participated in the so-called euthanasia program, which involved the killing of intellectually challenged, mentally ill, or physically challenged individuals in Germany and German-annexed territories. SN - 0098-7484 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.9649 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.9649 ER -