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Wiener klinische Wochenschrift· 2026Q2

The Viennese neurologist Richard Stern and the discrimination and persecution of Jewish physicians in Austria and Slovakia

Katharina Sigismund, Dominik Groß, Nico Biermanns

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This article reconstructs the life of Viennese neurologist Richard Stern (1878–1942), detailing how pre-existing antisemitism in Austrian medicine, not just the 1938 Anschluss, led to the exclusion and eventual murder of Jewish physicians, with Stern's forced migration to Slovakia highlighting the transnational nature of Nazi persecution.

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