The University of Ottawa’s Dr. Peggy J. Kleinplatz suggests synthetic steroids slipped into daily rations of female captives of

New University of Ottawa research provides theory on why women stopped menstruating upon arrival at Nazi death camps

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2022-09-21 01:00:08

The University of Ottawa’s Dr. Peggy J. Kleinplatz suggests synthetic steroids slipped into daily rations of female captives of Nazi concentration camps stopped menstrual cycles and impaired their ability to have children altogether

image: Lead author Dr. Peggy J. Kleinplatz, of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine, asked: "What was happening to these women in the death camps that was distinctive, causing it to occur immediately, and couldn't be explained fully by the hypotheses of either trauma, or malnutrition, or both? That was when I began to investigate whether there was some deliberate attempt to cause cessation of menstruation in these Jewish women.” view more

The horrific toll of the Holocaust, with its crimes against humanity amid the state-sponsored mass murder campaign that killed six million Jews and millions of others during World War II, has been scrutinized in numerous academic studies, books, films, and other works over decades.