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Scott A. Norton, MD, MPH
From the Dermatology Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC.

Arch Dermatol. 2001;137:867-868.

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In the May issue of the ARCHIVES,¹ we learned that when Hitler's Germany annexed Austria in 1939, Eduard Pernkopf, an active and ardent Nazi, was placed as chancellor of the medical school at the University of Vienna. Among his first actions was to purge the school of Jewish faculty members and others who were in disfavor under the Nazi regime. Pernkopf, an anatomy professor at the university, arranged for the bodies of nearly 1400 people executed by the Gestapo, most of them for political reasons, to serve as models for an atlas of magnificent anatomic illustrations entitled, Topographische Anatomie des Menschen (Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy). Nearly 50 years passed before the full story of Pernkopf's atlas was disclosed. The dermatology department at our teaching center held 2 volumes of the atlas in its departmental library and faced the issue of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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