The Nazi War on Cancer is a provocative and powerful book. Common terms and phrases. The Nazi war on cancer by Proctor, Robert, 1954-Publication date 1999 Topics Cancer -- Prevention -- Government policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century, Public health -- Germany -- History -- 20th century, Health care reform -- Germany -- History -- 20th century, National socialism Murderous and torturous medical experiments. The author, professor of history of science at Penn State, also details how Nazi scientists were the first investigators to link and ultimately prove with elegant epidemiological studies that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer. If a book can be considered eclectic, then surely Robert Proctor's The Nazi War on Cancer will fit the bill.. Collaboration in the Holocaust. The Nazi regime's leading figures ran bitter campaigns against smoking. Widespread sterilization of "the unfit." — Paul Lerner. The Nazi War on Cancer. Research on tobacco's effects on population health were more advanced in Germany than in any other nation by the time the Nazis came to power. Robert N. Proctor. ISBN 0-691-00196-0. From Amazon.com . The Barnes & Noble Review Asking probing questions about why science thrived under fascism, Robert Proctor explores the advances made in cancer research and public health in Hitler's Germany.. Several hours before the Germans launched the deadliest campaign in military history in 1941, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, the minister of popular enlightenment and propaganda, w The Nazi War on Tobacco and Cancer. I was recently asked to review The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor for Ideas on Liberty. All in all, the Third Reich's war on cancer was another Nazi war fiercely fought. It presents a great deal of research in an accessible, even breezy style and makes important contributions both to the history of medicine and to our understanding of fascism's many dimensions. 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