Herta Oberheuser: Nazi Doctor Tried at Nuremberg for Crimes at Ravensbrück

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"Herta Oberheuser was born on 15 May 1911 in Cologne, then part of the German Empire Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party came into power in January 1933. From 1935 Oberheuser joined the League of German Girls, and her activities were to provide medical assistance to female participants in youth shows and spartakiads who were overloaded with exercise.

The League of German Girls was the female section of Hitler Youth. These organizations, led by Baldur von Schirach, were the primary tools that the Nazis used to indoctrinate young people with Nazi ideology, thus shaping the beliefs, thinking and actions of German youth.
Boys and girls were taught to be both racially conscious and physically fit in order to build a new future for Germany and were often present at Nazi Party rallies and marches.
Since the Hitler Youth and its female section the League of German Girls were considered fully Aryan organizations by Nazi officials, premarital sex was encouraged in their ranks.
At the 1936 Nuremberg Rally, where there were some 100,000 participants of youth organizations present, 900 girls between fifteen and eighteen years of age returned home pregnant.

In 1937 Oberheuser joined the Nazi Party. The same year she received her doctorate and then decided to train as a dermatologist. She started to work at the Dermatology Clinic in Düsseldorf as an assistant physician and obtained specialist title in dermatology in 1940..."

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