["I believe that I always had an impeccable attitude during this time": the paediatrician and neurologist Gertrud Soeken and national socialism]

Abstract

Gertrud Soeken (1897-1978), paediatrician as well as psychiatrist and neurologist, was involved in National Socialist medicine through her practical and scientific work. She supported both National Socialist health care and ideology. This article confronts her activities in science and health care politics with the strategy of her denazification proceedings, which ended with her suspension as chief physician in Berlin-Buch. The relevance of the professional network on which she was able to rely is particularly discussed.

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number3-4
ISSN0025-8431
Publication statusPublished - 2006
pubmed 17265851