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Informed consent wrote:

Which may be a distinction without a difference in this case.
The articles I have been reading for the 1918-45 period has used the general label of public health system.
Distinct or not both were state operated social services that contributed to the horrors of the day.

The state also operated railroads, and they also contributed to the horror of the day. You might as well accuse them of medical experiments. Anyway, the social healthcare system was not used for experiments either. It certainly did not cover concentration camps abroad.