Nazi dental gold

The collection of gold dental fillings, dental caps and dentures extracted from the mouths of the victims of Aktion T4 and the Nazi concentration camps was a feature of the Holocaust.

[2] Dentists involved in the collection of gold included Martin Hellinger.

[4] With studies of the complicity of the medical profession in the crimes of the Third Reich on the rise, there is a question raised of the extent of justice brought down upon the doctors during the international trials after World War II.

The archetypical accused dentist was male, lived in a traditional family, was a part of the National Socialist Workers' Party (NSDAP) and the Waffen-SS (Schutzstaffel), and belonged to the Kriegsjugendgeneration.

[5] Many of these dentists served in concentration camps and their administrative offices.

Boxes of gold dental caps and dentures from prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp , recovered by American troops after the liberation of the camp