Topics and Projects
Research projects, publications and events
Human anatomical specimens from the National Socialist era at the Faculty of Medicine at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
The research project investigates the issue of the extent to which unethically acquired medical specimens are still part of FAU’s collections and how access to human remains developed during the first half of the 20th century.
Research projects at the Institute of the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics
National Socialist “Euthanasia” in Erlangen
The project comprehensively investigates National Socialist “euthanasia” in Erlangen for the first time by recording National Socialist health policy in a clinical, communal and regional context.
Research projects at the Institute of the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics
Publication: “Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1918-1945”
This collective volume about FAU during the Weimar Republic and the National Socialist era examines the history of faculties and people based on the findings of new archive research and current research questions.
Information about the collective volume
Lecture series “Controversial remembrance – the problems surrounding names given to streets and academic institutions”
During a series of 11 lectures, examples of names given to places in Erlangen and Nuremberg associated with FAU were discussed as well as ways of dealing with problematic names.
Information about the lecture series
The private collections of Georg Dehn and the Erlangen Antique and Classical Collection
This project from the field of provenance research investigates the case of the emigrated collector Georg Dehn who sold ceramic fragments to FAU for the Antique Collection in 1939.
Information on the website of the Institute for Classical Archeology
Audiowalk: “Patient murders behind stone walls: Between demolition and remembrance.”
The audiowalk follows the traces of Nazi medical crimes through the streets of Erlangen and its purpose is to keep alive the memory of the victims of these crimes in the Erlangen sanatorium.
Information on the website of the Department of History
Revocation of doctoral degrees at the University of Erlangen during the National Socialist period
The procedure in individual faculties, which was humiliating for several alumnae and alumni at FAU and caused them great difficulties and in some cases even meant the end of their academic careers, has been investigated in detail in several projects.
Information and publications about revocations of doctoral degrees
This site is being continuously updated and will successively include access to earlier topics and projects on the subject of remembrance culture at FAU.