title: Nazi Dental Gold: from Dead Bodies to Swiss Banks.
abstract: On the 23rd of September 1940 SS Reichsfürher Heinrich Himmler, gave the SS doctors orders to collect the gold teeth from the mouths of those killed in death camps. Here we ask: who were the SS dentists who are directly implicated in that collection, what were the figures behind the process and how did the Nazis conduct this retrieval of gold? Here we give the answers for the first time...
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Riaud
mesh_terms: D000067012:Banking, Personal / Q000266:history; D003209:Concentration Camps / Q000266:history; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history*; D003815:Dentists / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D006046:Gold / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D049673:History, 20th Century; D028683:National Socialism / Q000266:history*; D013557:Switzerland; D047789:World War II
chemical_list: D006046:Gold