| Preface and
Acknowledgements |
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| The Mazal Library and the Holocaust History Project are
extremely grateful to Dr. Robert J. Lifton for permission to present his
extraordinary book THE NAZI DOCTORS: Medical Killing and the Psychology
of Genocide on our web sites. |
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| This book is: |
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An agonizing account of what doctors can do
when they are transformed by theitr culture. To read of the medical experiments
at Auschwitz -- 'They took us because they didn't have
rabbits' -- will make it harder for us physicians ever again to be
corrupted. |
| Howard M. Spiro, M.D. Professor of Medicine,
Yale Medical School |
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| This copyrighted material is presented for the exclusive
use of our readers to assist in their research. The material may not be
copied, downloaded or placed on another web site without express permission
in writing from the author, Dr. Robert J. Lifton. Special requests may be sent
to hmazal@mazal.org who will forward such requests to Dr. Lifton. |
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| We wish to acknowledge the help received from our
volunteers and members in the production of this on-line book, and in
particular to our Board Member, Sara Salzman who scanned and digitized the
entire book. |
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| Robert J. Lifton is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry
at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
He is the author of other widely acclaimed works, Death in Life (1968),
Home from the War (1973), The Life of the Self (1976), The
Broken Connection (1979), and with Richard Falk, Indefensible Weapons
(1982), all published by Basic Books. |
