Editing Nazi Germany (section)

=== Health ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P017100, Berlin, Olympiade, Pariser Platz bei Nacht.jpg|thumb|Statues representing the ideal body were erected in the streets of Berlin for the [[1936 Summer Olympics]]. ]]
Nazi Germany had a strong [[Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany|anti-tobacco movement]], as pioneering research by Franz H. Müller in 1939 demonstrated a causal link between smoking and lung cancer.{{sfn|Proctor|1999|p=196}} The Reich Health Office took measures to try to limit smoking, including producing lectures and pamphlets.{{sfn|Proctor|1999|p=198}} Smoking was banned in many workplaces, on trains, and among on-duty members of the military.{{sfn|Proctor|1999|p=203}} Government agencies also worked to control other carcinogenic substances such as asbestos and pesticides.{{sfn|Evans|2005|p=319}} As part of a general public health campaign, water supplies were cleaned up, lead and mercury were removed from consumer products, and women were urged to undergo regular screenings for breast cancer.{{sfn|Proctor|1999|p=40}}

Government-run health care insurance plans were available, but Jews were denied coverage starting in 1933. That same year, Jewish doctors were forbidden to treat government-insured patients. In 1937, Jewish doctors were forbidden to treat non-Jewish patients, and in 1938 their right to practice medicine was removed entirely.{{sfn|Busse|Riesberg|2004|p=20}}

Medical experiments, many of them [[pseudoscientific]], were performed on concentration camp inmates beginning in 1941.{{sfn|Evans|2008|p=611}} The most notorious doctor to perform medical experiments was SS-''[[Hauptsturmführer]]'' [[Josef Mengele]], camp doctor at Auschwitz.{{sfn|Evans|2008|p=608}} Many of his victims died.{{sfn|Evans|2008|pp=609–661}} Concentration camp inmates were made available for purchase by pharmaceutical companies for drug testing and other experiments.{{sfn|Evans|2008|p=612}}