title: [Dental practice in the camps of the Third Reich].
abstract: In the Concentration Camps, the Nazis made a mixing of National Socialism ideology, anti-Semitism and war effort. After the arrival of trains in the camps the Nazis selected the weakest inmates for the gas chambers, as far as they considered them to be "useless mouths". The heathly grownups were kept for productive use. However a person suffering from bad tooth was not profitable. Thus some inmate dentists were in position to give dental cares to a few prisoners as they had been allowed by the Nazis to work in precarious circumstances. On the 23rd of September 1940 Himmler ordered to pull out the dental gold from the alive prisoners or at their exit of gas chambers. The decree was reinforced on the 23rd December 1942. The product of gold became a mean to support war effort. On the other hand few dental experiments have been performed by the SS doctors.
authors.affiliation: Société française d'Histoire de la Médecine.
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Riaud
mesh_terms: D003209:Concentration Camps; D049673:History, 20th Century; D017767:Holocaust; D028683:National Socialism; D019239:Practice Patterns, Dentists'; D014857:Warfare
vernacular_title: La pratique dentaire dans les camps du IIIème Reich.