Abstract EN:

The following have been elaborated in three successive phases of ten years each. The work includes: - a history of German medicine under the national socialist regime: perversion of the medical profession by the concept of racial hygiene and antisemitism; laws of debarment and sterilization; physical elimination of patients in the psychiatric wards of the third Reich; and consequently, during the Second World War, subjection of concentration camp prisoners to criminal experimentation and collaboration of SS physicians in the implementation of the Jewish genocide. - a history of the Armenian genocide perpetrated during the First World War in the ottoman empire: Armenians, their past history, the Armenian problem during the ninetieth century; the Hamitic massacres; the young Turk revolution; the ideology of pan-turkism; the genocide of nineteen fifteen; the Armenian diaspora, consequences resulting from the negation of the genocide; the concepts of genocide and of the criminal state. A multidisciplinary approach: first legal, but also sociological, philosophical, psychological and foremost historical; a comparative analysis of five genocidal situations during the twentieth century: the Jewish, Gipsy, Armenian, Cambodian, and Rwandese genocides; considerations on criminality in the USSR; a description of genocidal massacres: crimes against humanity.