ABSTRACT
During the Holocaust, Nazi researchers exposed concentration camp inmates to nocuous diseases, lethal gas, pressurized environments, and poisoned seawater. The Nazi data controversy is part of the larger debate over whether it is ever ethical to use data obtained in unethical ways. This chapter focuses on the victims' claim that they have the right to control the data's use. It argues that the Nazi victims do make for this right. In the Nazi experiments, the victims' selves were robbed from them in the name of medical utility. After the war, in accordance with the German indemnification law, the victims had to prove their damages and justify their claims. Discounting the victims' testimony in the Nazi data debate—calling them "emotional cripples"—perpetuates these injustices. To recover from trauma, a victim must take back control over his or her life; the victims suggest that this includes controlling the use of the data.
