We often hear that the Nazis destroyed science and abandoned ethics. That was the view of Telford Taylor in his opening statement at the Nuremberg “Doctor’s Trial” of 1946–1947, where he stated that the Nazi doctors had turned Germany “into an infernal combination of a lunatic asylum and a charnel house” where “neither science, nor industry, nor the arts could flourish in such a foul medium” [1]. Similar views were expressed by Franz Neumann, author of the 1942 treatise Behemoth, the first major analysis of how the Nazis came to power [2]. Neumann predicted “a most profound conflict” between the “magic character” of Nazi propaganda and the “rational” processes of German industry, a conflict the emigre political theorist believed would culminate in an uprising on the part of engineers to combat the irrationalist regime. Such an uprising, needless to say, never materialized. It would be comforting to believe, of course, that good science tends to travel with good ethics, but the sad truth seems to be that cruelty can coexist fairly easily with “good science.” There is a convenience of sorts in the myth: it makes it easy to argue that “Nazi science” was not really science at all, and therefore there is no ethical dilemma. One needn’t talk about the ethics of Nazi medicine, since there was no legitimate medicine to speak of. Nazi science in one swift blow is reduced to an oxymoron, a medical non-problem.1