ABSTRACT
During the National Socialist party rally of 1929 in Nuremberg, several veteran Nazi physicians gathered together on August 3 to found the National sozialistischer Deutscher Arztebund (NSAB) or Nazi Physicians' League. Area of potential recruitment ignored by the Hartmannbund. The aim of the maverick NSAB remained unchanged: to facilitate the crossover from the larger, traditional league to the much smaller upstart by demonstrating greater awareness of professional and public concerns and by expending infinitely more energy in its promotional work. Weimar administrators were noting the growth of Adolf Hitler's following among the traditional professions, 'civil servants, physicians, jurists, and all manner of academics'. Politically naive professionals, so they want their readers to believe, could hardly be charged with complicity in calculated anti-semitism, acts of medical perversion, and finally, the Holocaust. German doctors to the left of centre were the last to deny that the practice of medicine was predicated on politics and invariably had political consequences.
