"Alternative" medicine and Hitler
One of Hitler's legacies still lives on in Germany.
Hitler's Contribution to "Alternative Medicine"
Muriel Fraser
By creating the profession of heilpraktikers ("practical healers"
, Hitler and his Nazi colleagues played a major role in initiating what is now called as "alternative medicine" in Germany. Goebbels did this to keep the civilians happy because as soon as a war could be arranged, the real doctors were going to be sent off to tend the troops. The Nazis conducted tests and actually realized that practical healing didn't work. Goebbels' law, as well as legitimizing its practitioners, was intended to prohibit further training so that their numbers would dwindle after the war ended. However, in 1957 they got a court judgment overturning this restriction.
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