How the Nazi Reductionist View Influences Medicine Today

Dr. Peter Reeg is an orthopedist. He specialises in helping his patients to walk and move in ways they previously could not through surgical interventions. He is good humoured, open, relaxed and charming, even while sawing bone and hammering metal fixings into cartilage in preparation for prosthetic reconfiguration.

Not just a leading surgeon, as Professor Baader’s student, Reeg specialised in medical history as a student. In particular, the ethics of contemporary medical practice informed by Nazi research.

Professor Heribert Kentenich work focuses on reproductive medicine, ethics and psychosomatic gynecology.

In 2018, the Berlin Medical Association awarded him the Georg Klemperer Medal of Honour ‘for special merit in patient care in Berlin.

Kentenich performs numerous functions in scientific institutions and advisory bodies. Since 1989 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Society for Psychosomatic Gynecology and Obstetrics and of the Ethics Committee of the Berlin Medical Association .

From 1990 to 2005 he was a member of the board of the German Society for Psychosomatic Gynecology and Obstetrics, of which he was President from 1993 to 1999. At the same time he was a member of the Advisory Committee from 1990 to 1996 and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology from 2005 to 2009. In this society he led the interest group ‘Psychology and Counseling’.

From 2003 to 2006 he was President and from 2009 to 2010 a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology in Berlin. From 2006 to 2011 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Medical Association and since 2007 he has been chairman of the working group “Open Questions in Reproductive Medicine” at the German Medical Association.

Since 2000, Kentenich has been a member of the editorial board and since 2002 he has been a scientific advisor to the “ Journal for Gynecological Endocrinology ”. He is also a scientific advisor to the journals “ Gynaecological Practice ” (2003 to 2006) and “ Sexuologie ” (since 2006). From 2006 to 2010 he was also Associate Editor of Human Reproduction magazine .

Mariam Notten left Afghanistan for Berlin in 1967 after her A-levels at the age of 18. And has witnessed her childhood home suffer from over 30 years of war, poverty and unemployment.

Despite the distance, she continues to support Afghanistan with great passion. Her many projects tend to focus on supporting Afghan women, for example she has helped build 20 small bakeries and 45 projects to raise chickens. This helps women earn their own money and be more independent. She set up a scheme providing micro-credit so that women can buy their own animals and improve their income by selling dairy products.

Mariam’s most interesting person is also from Afghanistan. Her name is Jeanette Gaussi. She came here when she was five from Kabul to Germany when the Russians invaded Afghanistan.

‘As a young Afghani from second generation immigrants she is very interesting. She never had an easy life but she has made the best out of it. That’s why I think you should interview her.’