Antisemitism and dermatology in Nazi Germany and beyond

Abstract

Antisemitism, the hatred of or prejudice against Jews, was a core component of the Nazi regime's ideology. We review the chronology of events against the Jews and Jewish physicians in Germany and their conquered territories from 1933 to 1945. The complicit role that German physicians played in these events and the devastating impact on Jewish dermatologists and our specialty will be recounted. Finally, we will address the antisemitism in the United States during that same approximate period and now.