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Description edit
A brilliant analysis and history of the crucial role that German doctors played in Nazi genocide.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Menge Le: Add a description of this character.
- Wirths
- Clauberg
- Hitler
- Himmler
- Langbein
- Karl Brandt
- Heyde
- Delmotte
- Ernst B.
- Volk
- Weber
- Rohde
- Ewald
- Teresa W.
- Helmut
- Samuel
- Dr. Jan W.
- Klein
- Dr. Magda V.
- Dr. Jacob R.
- Mrugowsky
- Dr. Louie M.
- Hirt
- Dr. Tadeusz S.
- Conti
- Grabner
- I. G. Farben
- Konig
- Adam T.
- Brack
- Verschuer
- Dr. Lottie M.
- Haeckel
- Fischer
- Simon Cohen
Setting & Locations edit
- Auschwitz
- Germany
- Berlin
- Dachau
- Birkenau
- Poland
- Europe
- Nuremberg
- Buchenwald
- Munich
- United States
- Sonderkommando
- Hadamar
- Frankfurt
- Russia
- Mauthausen
- Hartheim
- Sonnenstein
- Ravensbruck
- Brandenburg
- Hamburg
- Belzec
- Czechoslovakia
- Paraguay
- Vietnam
- Monowitz
- Treblinka
- Goethe
- Gestapo
- Hoche
- Heidelberg
- Soviet Union
First Sentence edit
Only in Nazi Germany was sterilization a forerunner of mass murder.
Table of Contents edit
Part I: The Genetic Cure
1. Sterilization and the Nazi Biomedical Vision
2: ''Euthanasia'': Direct Medical Killing
3. Resistance to Direct Medical Killing
4. '''Wild Euthanasia'': The Doctors Take Over
5. Participants
6. Bringing ''Euthanasia'' to the Camps: Action Special Treatment 14f13
Part II: Auschwitz: The Racial Cure
7. The Auschwitz Institution
8. Selections on the Ramp
9. Selections in the Camp
10. Socialization to Killing
11. Prisoner Doctors: The Agony of Selection
12. Prisoner Doctors: Struggle to Heal
13. Prisoner Doctors: Collaboration with Nazi Doctors
14: Killing With Syringes: Phenol Injections
15. The Experimental Impulse
16. ''A Human Being in An SS Uniform'': Ernst B.
17. Dr Auschwitz: Joseph Mengele
18: Healing-Killing Conflict: Eduard Wirths
Part III: The Psychology of Genocide
19. Doubling: The Faustian Bargain
20. The Auschwitz Self: Psychological Themes in Doubling
21: Genocide
Afterword: Bearing Witness
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert Jay Lifton (Author)
Awards edit
- National Jewish Book Awards (1987: Holocaust)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 940.5405
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Political Doctrines › Fascism
- Books › History › World › Jewish › Holocaust
- Books › History › Military › World War II
- Books › Nonfiction › Crime & Criminals › Criminology
- Books › History › Europe › Germany
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling
- Books › Medicine
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