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Nazi doctors did more than conduct bizarre experiments on concentration-camp inmates; they supervised the entire process of medical mass murder, from selecting those who were to be exterminated to disposing of corpses. Lifton (The Broken Connection; The Life of the Self shows that this medically supervised killing was done in the name of ``healing,'' as part of a racist program to cleanse the Aryan body politic. After the German eugenics campaign of the 1920s for forced sterilization of the ``unfit,''it was but one step to ``euthanasia,'' which in the Nazi context meant systematic murder of Jews. Building on interviews with former Nazi physicians and their prisoners, Lifton presents a disturbing portrait of careerists who killed to overcome feelings of powerlessness. He includes a chapter on Josef Mengele and one on Eduard Wirths, the ``kind,'' ``decent'' doctor (as some inmates described him) who set up the Auschwitz death machinery. Lifton also psychoanalyzes the German people, scarred by the devastation of World War I and mystically seeking regeneration. This profound study ranks with the most insightful books on the Holocaust.
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The Nazi Doctors, Robert Jay Lifton
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- Pubblicato
- 1986
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- Titolo
- The Nazi Doctors
- Sottotitolo
- Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Robert Jay Lifton
- Editore
- Basic Books
- Pubblicato
- 1986
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 561
- ISBN10
- 0465049044
- ISBN13
- 9780465049042
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Tema stórico, Salute & Medicina, Storia, Temi psicologici, Psicologia, Storia Militare, Guerre, Seconda guerra mondiale, Medicina, Olocausto, Nazismo
- Valutazione
- 4,2 su 5
- Descrizione
- Nazi doctors did more than conduct bizarre experiments on concentration-camp inmates; they supervised the entire process of medical mass murder, from selecting those who were to be exterminated to disposing of corpses. Lifton (The Broken Connection; The Life of the Self shows that this medically supervised killing was done in the name of ``healing,'' as part of a racist program to cleanse the Aryan body politic. After the German eugenics campaign of the 1920s for forced sterilization of the ``unfit,''it was but one step to ``euthanasia,'' which in the Nazi context meant systematic murder of Jews. Building on interviews with former Nazi physicians and their prisoners, Lifton presents a disturbing portrait of careerists who killed to overcome feelings of powerlessness. He includes a chapter on Josef Mengele and one on Eduard Wirths, the ``kind,'' ``decent'' doctor (as some inmates described him) who set up the Auschwitz death machinery. Lifton also psychoanalyzes the German people, scarred by the devastation of World War I and mystically seeking regeneration. This profound study ranks with the most insightful books on the Holocaust.