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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- Nazi doctors. New York : Basic Books, ©1986 (OCoLC)565687202 Online version: Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- Nazi doctors. New York : Basic Books, ©1986 (OCoLC)631292737 |
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Named Person: | Josef Mengele; Eduard Wirths |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Jay Lifton; Mazal Holocaust Collection. |
ISBN: | 0465049044 9780465049042 0465049052 9780465049059 |
OCLC Number: | 13334966 |
Awards: | Winner of National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Studies 1987 Winner of Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 1987 |
Description: | xiii, 561 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Sterilization and the Nazi biomedical vision -- Euthanasia : direct medical killing -- Resistance to direct medical killing -- Wild euthanasia : the doctors take over -- Participants -- Bringing euthanasia to the camps : action special treatment -- Auschwitz institution -- Selections on the ramp -- Selections in the camp -- Socialization to killing -- Prisoner doctors : the agony of selections -- Prisoner doctors : struggles to heal -- Prisoner doctors : collaboration with Nazi doctors -- Killing with syringes : phenol injections -- Experimental impulse -- Human being in an SS uniform : Ernst B. -- Dr. Auschwitz : Josef Mengele -- Healing-killing conflict : Eduard Wirths -- Doubling : the Faustian bargain -- Auschwitz self : psychological themes in doubling -- Genocide. |
Responsibility: | Robert Jay Lifton. |
Abstract:
A brilliant analysis and history of the crucial role that German doctors played in Nazi genocide.
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