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The Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide

Author: Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©1986.
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An analysis of the psychological forces behind the transformation of Nazi doctors into mass murderers in Auschwitz and other "death camps."
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Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-
Nazi doctors.
New York : Basic Books, c1986
(OCoLC)565687202
Online version:
Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-
Nazi doctors.
New York : Basic Books, c1986
(OCoLC)631292737
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Jay Lifton
ISBN: 0465049044 9780465049042
OCLC Number: 13334966
Description: xiii, 561 p. ; 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.
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An analysis of the psychological forces behind the transformation of Nazi doctors into mass murderers in Auschwitz and other "death camps."

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