THE NAZI DOCTORS: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide

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    Kyt Άρης

    THE NAZI DOCTORS: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Dr Robert Jay Lifton, is available online now. I read the book a few years ago.

    http://www.holocaust-history.org/lifton/contents.shtml

    FOREWORD
    Introduction: “This World Is Not This World”

    PART I
    “LIFE UNWORTHY OF LIFE”: THE GENETIC CURE

    Introduction to Part I
    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

    Introduction to Part II
    7. The Auschwitz Institution
    8. Selections on the Ramp
    9. Selections in the Camp
    10. Socialization to Killing
    11. Prisoner Doctors: The Agony of Selections
    12. Prisoner Doctors: Struggles 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: Josef Mengele
    18. Healing Killing Conflict: Eduard Wirths

    PART III
    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GENOCIDE

    Introduction to Part III
    19. Doubling: The Faustian Bargain
    20. The Auschwitz Self: Psychological Themes in Doubling
    21. Genocide

    Afterword: Bearing Witness
     

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