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Hans-Georg Hofer
Research and Remembrance: Internal Medicine during the Nazi Era.
In: Christian Sammer & Natalie Rath, Medicine under National Socialism. Status, perspectives, and tasks of medical history teaching and research.
heiBOOKS, 2025. pp. 27–3
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Vina Zielonka, Ralf Forsbach, Hans-Georg Hofer, Ulrich R. Fölsch
Against forgetting: Portraits of Jewish female doctors in the German Society for Internal Medicine
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 147 (2022), pp. 1596–1604
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Hans-Georg Hofer, Ralf Forsbach, Ulrich R. Fölsch
Toward Historical Accountability and Remembrance
The German Society for Internal Medicine and Its Legacies From the Nazi Past
Annals of Internal Medicine 173 (2020), S. 375–380
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Ralf Forsbach
The Annual Congress of the German Society of Internal Medicine as a Memory Site for German Internists
Medical History Journal 55 (2020), S. 260–279
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Ralf Forsbach, Hans-Georg Hofer
The German Society of Internal Medicine after 1945
Reorganization and consolidation.
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 143 (2018), S. 1800–1802
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Ralf Forsbach, Hans-Georg Hofer

From the History of the German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM): 

Teil 1: Die DGIM in der NS–Zeit
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 142 (2017), S. 1862–1867
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Teil 2: Die DGIM in der Nachkriegszeit
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 143 (2018), S. 201–206
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Teil 3: Die DGIM in der Umbruchszeit um 1968
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 143 (2018), S. 519–524
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Ralf Forsbach, Hans-Georg Hofer
Der Versuch einer großen Integration
Paul Martini und der erste Nachkriegskongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin
NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 25 (2017), S. 35–68
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Internisten in Diktatur und junger Demokratie
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin 1933–1970.

By Ralf Forsbach and Hans-Georg Hofer 
Edited by Cornel Sieber, Ulrich R. Fölsch, and Maximilian G. Broglie

The DGIM also became part of the system of injustice during the National Socialist era. Many who were persecuted as Jews were forced to leave the DGIM. The elected chairman Leopold Lichtwitz was replaced by the Nazi activist Alfred Schittenhelm in 1933. Individual members resisted the Nazi dictatorship, but without the support of their professional society. 
Based on a wide range of sources, the book traces individual fates as well as the Nazification of the DGIM and its reconstitution after 1945. In the young Federal Republic, it was possible to integrate former National Socialists and those once persecuted at the price of concealing the past. The controversial reform ideas associated with the year 1968, were an indication of a changing awareness.

Should you be interested in this publication, please email infodgim.de. 

Internisten in Diktatur und junger Demokratie Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin 1933–1970.
Internisten in Diktatur und junger Demokratie Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin 1933–1970.

Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin in der NS-Zeit

by Ralf Forsbach and Hans-Georg Hofer 
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin (publisher)

Companion volume to the exhibition of the same name on the occasion of the 121st Congress of the German Society of Internal Medicine, April 18 - 21, 2015 in Mannheim. With numerous illustrations.

Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin in der NS-Zeit
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin in der NS-Zeit